Maintain your knife’s precious edge between sharpenings with our top picks. Food & Wine / Marcus Millan Honing with a honing steel or rod is part of regular knife maintenance that keeps your blade in ...

Keep your knives on the cutting edge with regular honing and sharpening.

A dull knife is a dangerous knife.

Claire is Lifehacker's Senior Food Editor. She has a B.S. in chemistry, a decade of food journalism experience, and a deep love for mayonnaise and MSG. I did not learn knife care from my parents, and ...

Steel is a soft metal, so the blade actually becomes frayed. This will happen faster the more often you use your knife. A typical knife set should come with a honing steel that will help you realign ...

Which honing rods are best? While there are lots of great kitchen tools that can help with any task imaginable, knives are still the backbone of every cook’s toolkit. It makes sense that keeping your ...

As any seasoned chef knows, there is a knife for virtually every kitchen task. And in order to get the most out of your favorite knife, you’ll want to make sure that its blade is in good condition.