Kitchen & Housewares : Chef's Choice M130 Professional Knife-Sharpening Station, Platinum

Rating: - NOT for professional people
it is okay for a simple chopping for a time or two. Not worth the money. Not anywhere close to professional sharping and I worked in restaurant. I am still are going back to my sharping stone which is still the best currently and last the longest.

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Rating: - Make cooking fun with sharp knives
Sharp knives are very important to making cooking fun. This gadget helps me keep all my knives sharp and tuned. Cutting tomatoes should be a breeze!

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Rating: - Excellent device
This product does quickly what no other device has done for me before. It truly sharpens knives to a fine honed edge in just a few seconds, with very little skill required and a short learning curve.
Purists will still want the kind of shape and edge that a stone will produce after many minutes of careful (and often unsuccessful in my hands) work. But this product has been well thought out, seems pretty sturdy and it works. Large thick blades may not fit well.

It allows you to get two types of edge. One is a smooth, finely honed edge that cuts very smoothly. I don't prefer that. The other is also a finely honed edge, but there is just enough irregularities on the edge to give a momentary sawing action as it starts to cut. I am not enough of an aficionado to have different knives with different types of edges. I prefer the "bite".

There are a couple of ways to know your knife is well honed. Look at the edge while holding the blade directly perpendicular to your line of vision. A well-honed edge will not reflect any light, because the edge is actually thinner than the wavelengths of visible light. The other way is to touch the edge to your thumbnail and try to pull it sideways (NOT in a cutting direction) across the nail. If it is dull, it will slide. If it sharp, it will "stick".

The Chef's Choice M130 achieves that level of sharpening in moments.

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Rating: - Great sharpener
I bought the sharpening station because it was highly rated by cooks illustrated. It is a great piece of equipment, I have expensive knives and want to keep them sharp without damaging the blades, this did the job. My husband noticed immediately how sharp the knives were. I highly recommend it, I just read the instructions first and practiced using a cheap knife and the results were amazing.

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Rating: - A Sharp Purchase
This is my second Chef's Choice Sharpening station and conveniently this one addressed the problem I had with my first one - that is how to keep the razor sharp edge without continuous resharpening. After washing my knives I simply run them through Station 2 (no need to turn on the machine)ten times to fine tune the edge. I assume it's synonomous with using a chef's steel. A little bit of work but fantastic results. I only wish I bought the chrome edition since I use it every day and thus leave it out.