You're Sharpening Your Knives Wrong - How To Make Any Knife 1000x Better! Turn a $1 kitchen knife into a super knife by sharpening it correctly.
In this video I show what pull through knife sharpeners do to your knives close up. And why they are not a good choice if you want your knife edge to last a long time.
The Final word on pull through knife sharpeners, and why they ruin knives.
(See Disclosures below)
Stuff used for sharpening the super $1 knife⬇️
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One of the knives I tested ⬇️
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FULL DISCLOSURE:
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:34 The $1 super knife
00:41 The big question
00:52 How I turn a $1 knife into a super knife
01:28 What the super edge looks like up close
01:43 The 2x4 test
02:34 How hard is a $1 knife? (HRC)
02:40 Reads MEAN comments
03:35 How fast is freehand sharpening? (Faster than you think)
04:26 The pull through knife sharpener sharpening
05:05 The pull through edge UP CLOSE
06:36 A burr removal method that DOESN’T work!
07:24 The pull through sharpener 2x4 test
08:26 The pull through 2x4 damage UP CLOSE
09:45 How for can we push a $1 knife? UNBELIEVABLE!