The 9 Best Honing Steels of 2024
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The 9 Best Honing Steels of 2024
Honing steels, or honing rods, straighten and align knife blades. We researched the best honing steels to extend the lives of your kitchen knives.
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The 8-inch Honing Steel features a half-grooved and half-smooth finish. The grooved, coarse side of the steel is used for regular maintenance, to realign the microscopic teeth on the blade’s edge. The smooth, fine side of the steel is used to finish the edge with a few swipes of the blade after honing on the grooved side. For average use, the grooved side can be used weekly and the smooth side, daily. Regularly honed knives will retain their edges longer before needing to be sharpened.
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