Sharpening Tips
To the point: “Hire a Professional Knife Sharpener.”
- Hiring professional knife sharpener will provide you with the right cutting edge, while preserving the quality of your knives.
- A sharp knife ensures precise chopping and slicing of foods and prevents the knife from skipping and accidentally cutting yourself. A dull knife is a dangerous knife!
- A properly sharpened knife allows you to streamline your prized cooking methods, and protect your wrists from developing chronic pain due to the repetitive stress caused by needing to apply extra pressure to cut food.
- Maintaining sharp knives will serve to protect the longevity of your career as a cook and chef.
- A sharp knife requires less pressure to use. Having to add excessive pressure may crack the edges, chip the metal and misalign and flatten the knifes edge.
- To streamline your work, and provide a safer working experience it is important to schedule proper knife maintenance on a regular basis.
- Scheduling knife sharpening service every six months is recommended for households. This ensures you stay sharp all year round.
- High volume cooking households generally book mobile knife sharpening service every three months.
- Private chefs schedule sharpening service once a month.
- Restaurants are best suited to schedule knife sharpening service bimonthly. High volume chopping may require weekly service.
- Butchers will benefit best by scheduling for service twice a week to ensure knives continue slicing meat effectively.
- The sharpness of your knives will determine the quality of your work, serve to protect you, your family, fellow chefs, and your business.
- Choosing to hire a professional knife sharpening mobile service, saves you valuable time and money, so that you can continue doing the things that matter most.
Honing Rod
Using a Honing Rod
- A honing rod is a complementary tool that should be kept alongside your knives. It in itself is not a sharpening implement. It actually serves to realign the metal on your knives edge, to come to a point. Eventually, with extended use, this will no longer be possible and your knives will round and flatten at the edge, making it difficult to cut and will require the bevel to be reconstructed by a professional knife sharpener.
Sharpening Gizmos
Store Bought Sharpening Gizmos
- Home sharpening devices although may help sharpen a knife to make it usable, may in fact damage your knives.
- One of the things I spend much of my time doing is repairing knives of damage these tools create.
- In busy kitchens, I see that these tools scratch knives and make the edges uneven and create more of an “S” shape on the edge instead of maintaining a straight cutting edge that you need for proper cutting each and every day.
- Your knives can be ruined by these machines, and it serves to invest in a service that prizes itself on protecting you and your investments.
KNIFE SHARPENING IN LOS ANGELES
MOBILE SERVICE AREAS:
- WEST SIDE L.A.
- SANTA MONICA
- PACIFIC PALISADES
- BRENTWOOD
- BEVERLY HILLS
- BEL AIR
- CENTURY CITY
- CULVER CITY
- VENICE BEACH
- MARINA DEL RAY
- MAR VISTA
- PLAYA VISTA
- WEST HOLLYWOOD
- DOWNTOWN L.A.
- PASADENA
- SAN GABRIEL VALLEY
- CLAREMONT
Mobile Service Minimum $80
- Price includes first 10 knives/scissors/garden tools
- Please click here for pricing and tool list