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Posts tagged “knife sharpening”

Leaving Town? Drop Off Your Knives to be Sharpened

Yesterday Sara Kate posted a great how-to on sharpening your knives at home. If you have the tools, it's easy to do. But just like there are people who prefer to buy pizza dough rather than make it fr...

How To Sharpen a Knife

Taking part in the Kitchen Cure? This would be a great week to learn how to sharpen your knives, especially given all the cooking you'll be doing in the final three weeks. Even if you're not one of th...

Weekend Project: Practice Your Knife Skills!

We've often said that developing good knife skills is a matter of practice. And then practicing some more. And then again! But that doesn't mean that you have to sit down with a pile of onions to perf...

Get Your Knives Sharpened By Mail

Yesterday we had our kitchen knives sharpened by a wonderful woman named Louise. She has a mobile knife sharpening business where she pulls up to your home with a trailer that contains her tiny, perfe...

Knife Skills: Keeping Your Knife Sharp

Once you've gone to all the trouble of sharpening your knife, the next step is keeping that way! This is easy to do and only takes a few seconds. Here's how......

Weekend Project: Sharpen Your Knives!

Trust us, knife sharpening is not a mystic art and it doesn't have to be a safety hazard to your finger tips! With a little practice, it's easy to do at home, and all you need is a sharpening stone an...

Cooking Advice from Pears On A Willow Tree

In the book Pears On A Willow Tree by Leslie Pietrzyk, which chronicles four generations of Polish-American women passing down culinary traditions to one another, the matriarch of the family tells her...