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Most kitchen professionals will tell you that the best way to sharpen your knife is with a whetstone.
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Jesse Raub, Bon Appetit Magazine, 7 Apr. 2025
Automatic knife sharpeners and grinders can take off more material than whetstone sharpening and wear your knives down over time.
—Jesse Raub, Bon Appetit Magazine, 7 Apr. 2025
There are also other tools of the trade that Silverman has curated — cutting boards and ceramics from local makers, Thermapen meat thermometers and whetstones of various grits.
—Ahmed Ali Akbar, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
To sharpen this type of blade, use a damp whetstone and run the blade across it from handle to tip at a 15-degree angle.
—Bestreviews, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2025
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Jesse Raub, Bon Appetit Magazine, 7 Apr. 2025
Automatic knife sharpeners and grinders can take off more material than whetstone sharpening and wear your knives down over time.
—Jesse Raub, Bon Appetit Magazine, 7 Apr. 2025
There are also other tools of the trade that Silverman has curated — cutting boards and ceramics from local makers, Thermapen meat thermometers and whetstones of various grits.
—Ahmed Ali Akbar, Chicago Tribune, 31 Mar. 2025
To sharpen this type of blade, use a damp whetstone and run the blade across it from handle to tip at a 15-degree angle.
—Bestreviews, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2025
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“Whetstone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whetstone. Accessed 12 May. 2025.
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whetstone
noun
whet·stone
ˈhwet-ˌstōn 
ˈwet-
: a stone for sharpening blades
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