Chef's Choice M130 Professional Sharpening Station

[biggestmexi]

Does anyone have one of these?

Chef's Choice M130 Professional Sharpening Station (http://www.amazon.com/Chefs-Choice-Professional-Knife-Sharpening-Platinum/dp/B000CSK0DM/ref=pd_sim_k_1)

I would like to buy a sharpener. What do you use? I have a steel at home but that will only do so much as resetting the blade.

[sailor]

i have the 460. it's manual and costs under $30. it works great. if you have the money to splurge, or are going to sharpen many knives everyday - go for the electric. otherwise, the manual is plenty good for much less.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/413ZDV29X2L._SS500_.jpg

[biggestmexi]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/413ZDV29X2L._SS500_.jpg

And its shiny to boot! Nice. Chef choice seems to be the better trend in the market of nice sharpening unless you outsource. ありがとう

[OGC]

Maybe Fez can get one of those for Ron next year for Christmas.

[sailor]

Maybe Fez can get one of those for Ron next year for Christmas.


he's gonna want the big knife to be razor sharp.

[Liverspot]

I got the original Chefs Choice, version 1.0 when they first came out about 20 years ago and I still use it. Top quality and works as advertised.

[razorboy]

I'm not so much a fan of the electric sharpeners. I use this and it works excellently.

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c297/razorboy_/204_M.jpg

[joethebartender]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31DPH4ZG8JL._SL500_AA280_.jpg
I've been using this one for 5 years (on the same knives) and have not had any problems. ...under $25 by Henkels.

[boosterp]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31DPH4ZG8JL._SL500_AA280_.jpg
I've been using this one for 5 years (on the same knives) and have not had any problems. ...under $25 by Henkels.

Agreed. I have some nice Henkels knives and I trust nothing else to their blades.

Actually I just read this: Amazon.com Review
Despite its name, this tool doesn't truly sharpen a knife. It's an alternative to a knife, or "butcher," steel. Like a steel, it performs the vital task of realigning, or "resetting," a knife's edge, which bends this way and that when contacting a cutting surface or other hard object. Because it employs steel and ceramic wheels to do the work on a knife's edge, it can grind a bit of steel off the blade. But that's more a polishing, or honing, than an actual sharpening. It's simple to use: grasp the curved grip with the left hand--left-handers must do it this way, too--and draw a knife through a V-shaped slot toward the body with the right hand. --Fred Brack

So the one Sailor posted may be better.

[Contra]

I've been looking for a sharpener, I'll look into these definately. Is there a link to a site for that manual one sailor? Where did you get it?

[joethebartender]

Agreed. I have some nice Henkels knives and I trust nothing else to their blades.

Actually I just read this: Despite its name, this tool doesn't truly sharpen a knife. It's an alternative to a knife, or "butcher," steel. Like a steel, it performs the vital task of realigning, or "resetting," a knife's edge, which bends this way and that when contacting a cutting surface or other hard object. Because it employs steel and ceramic wheels to do the work on a knife's edge, it can grind a bit of steel off the blade. But that's more a polishing, or honing, than an actual sharpening. It's simple to use: grasp the curved grip with the left hand--left-handers must do it this way, too--and draw a knife through a V-shaped slot toward the body with the right hand. --Fred Brack

So the one Sailor posted may be better.

Yeah I guess it does just hone up the blade but mine are still razor sharp even with regular use. Unless you're a butcher or chopping wood with your blades I don't think that a sharpening system is practical.

2 of the restaurants that I worked in had a service for the knives; one of them used to pick up and replace all the knives with sharpened ones, and the other used to come with a sharpener in his van and the cooks would bring out whatever needed to be sharpened.

I guess if the blades are really gone, I'd look in the yellow pages for a sharpening (or grinding) service get it done and maintain it with the honer.

[sailor]

Yeah I guess it does just hone up the blade but mine are still razor sharp even with regular use. Unless you're a butcher or chopping wood with your blades I don't think that a sharpening system is practical.

2 of the restaurants that I worked in had a service for the knives; one of them used to pick up and replace all the knives with sharpened ones, and the other used to come with a sharpener in his van and the cooks would bring out whatever needed to be sharpened.

I guess if the blades are really gone, I'd look in the yellow pages for a sharpening (or grinding) service get it done and maintain it with the honer.

your cooks don't use their own knives?

[Lady Resin]

I got this one for Christmas about 6 years ago. I love it:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41NEQMHQYPL._SL500_AA280_.jpg

[Reephdweller]

i have the 460. it's manual and costs under $30. it works great. if you have the money to splurge, or are going to sharpen many knives everyday - go for the electric. otherwise, the manual is plenty good for much less.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/413ZDV29X2L._SS500_.jpg


I saw this in Bed Bath and Beyond tonight and almost got it. I'm torn between this and the Henkels sharpener.

[SatCam]

wait for the knife sharpening truck to come around. ring ring

[Reephdweller]

wait for the knife sharpening truck to come around. ring ring


As a kid I used to DESPISE the knife sharpening truck guy because it would sound like the Good Humor ice cream truck was coming so I'd get all excited and run to it, to sadly find a bunch of moms all anxiously waiting in line to get their knives sharpened.

[sailor]

I saw this in Bed Bath and Beyond tonight and almost got it. I'm torn between this and the Henkels sharpener.

i'm sure the henkels is great, but i know the chef's choice one is.

wait for the knife sharpening truck to come around. ring ring

for anyone in the city, i know they used to have professional knife sharpening done at the chelsea market. if i had a really nice set of knives i would have gone there, but mine aren't anything special.

[boosterp]

i have the 460. it's manual and costs under $30. it works great. if you have the money to splurge, or are going to sharpen many knives everyday - go for the electric. otherwise, the manual is plenty good for much less.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/413ZDV29X2L._SS500_.jpg

My cheapest Henkel knife cost around $50 but again because the one you pointed out uses diamonds in the sharpening mechanism I think over all yours is a better choice. I also have a couple Faberware knives (much cheaper but still serve the purpose) that the Henkel's sharpener works well on.

Diamonds are used in honing/sharpening steels but good ones are expensive and require skill to use. Sailor's idea seems perfect and cheaper.

[smiler grogan]

Agreed. I have some nice Henkels knives and I trust nothing else to their blades.

Actually I just read this:

So the one Sailor posted may be better.

Polishing and honing is sharpening I don't know Fred Black but hes a doofus.

[joethebartender]

your cooks don't use their own knives?

Some did and some didn't. This ain't America's Top Chef... this is work, man.

[razorboy]

Polishing and honing is sharpening I don't know Fred Black but hes a doofus.

Honing keeps the blade's edge straight, sharpening grinds the blade's edge down to a sharper point.

[sailor]

Some did and some didn't. This ain't America's Top Chef... this is work, man.

never watched it. i'm pretty sure all the cooks at my job bring their own, that's why i asked.

[joethebartender]

never watched it. i'm pretty sure all the cooks at my job bring their own, that's why i asked.

No kidding around... they come with a few different kinds of knives and swap them out with the dull ones. I guess the cooks that use their own, sharpen them on their own.
they look like these (along with a few filet and paring knives):
http://cutlerymania.com/images/10_CHEF_GROUP_1bg.jpg
The other place had a service that came and sharpened everything on site in the back of the van.

[biggestmexi]

Yeah I guess it does just hone up the blade but mine are still razor sharp even with regular use. Unless you're a butcher or chopping wood with your blades I don't think that a sharpening system is practical.


Im sorry to say but owning your knives for as long as you have and just by honing them are NOT RAZOR sharp. Its physically impossibly. When you literally sharpen the knives you actually grind away the old steel blade and then make your own.

Where i worked the guy came by picked them up and replaced them but you could tell they were getting done. the blade will come back smaller and smaller. There was this fillet knife that we had that was sharpened so much that it turned into a paring knife.

Also you need a butchers knife to be razor sharp. they are that big for a reason. same with cutting wood. Axes are not razor sharp either. But when you are cutting a tomato and making a rose out of its skin you need something sharp.



http://cutlerymania.com/images/10_CHEF_GROUP_1bg.jpg


The white handle ones i had at my second place i cooked. I hated them. The first had wood handles.

[Contra]

If you use the steel to straighten the blade you can keep it very sharp for a long time. I got my knives a year ago and I'm looking to sharpen them just now. I use them about every other day.

[Reephdweller]

i have the 460. it's manual and costs under $30. it works great. if you have the money to splurge, or are going to sharpen many knives everyday - go for the electric. otherwise, the manual is plenty good for much less.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/413ZDV29X2L._SS500_.jpg


I decided to go with the Chef's Choice 460, with my 20% off coupon I got it from $24 today. I'm going to try it out right now.

[sr71blackbird]

I use my Spyderco Triangle Sharpmaker to sharpen all my knives. Works great. I use a squeeze clamp tp hold it to the edge of the table or counter for stability and I put a rubber mat below it. Once you learn how to use it, its amazing.

[sr71blackbird]

I also got these diamond coated sleeves that can slide over the ceramic in case I have a very dull knife and need to quickly bring it to an edge before I hone it to as a razors edge on the ceramic. They have the sharpmaker on ebay cheaper than I paid years ago. It looks cooler now too

[biggestmexi]

If you use the steel to straighten the blade you can keep it very sharp for a long time. I got my knives a year ago and I'm looking to sharpen them just now. I use them about every other day.

Yes i know you can keep them very sharp. but there is a difference between razor and very.

He wasnt called Very Ramone was he?

[biggestmexi]

I decided to go with the Chef's Choice 460, with my 20% off coupon I got it from $24 today. I'm going to try it out right now.

Hows that working out for ya?

Have you finished sharpening it YET?

[Contra]

If he was Very Ramone maybe he wouldn't have been such a "bad guy"








Or a coke fiend

[sailor]

Hows that working out for ya?

Have you finished sharpening it YET?

i hope he's ok!

[biggestmexi]

i hope he's ok!

lets just hope for the best.

and hope he willed that to me.