The Best Whetstones for Keeping Your Knives Razor Sharp
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If you’ve just bought a really great set of knives for your kitchen, then you’ll want to make sure that they stay in good condition. Even the most premium of blades can grow blunt with use, so it’s best to have a sharpening stone on hand so that you’ll never have to struggle with cutting your meat and veggies.
A good sharpening stone, or whetstone, works by shaving off the small bits of steel that aren’t cutting it—pun intended—and leaving a new, clean edge behind. Just how much it sharpens the knife, though, depends on the grit size, which refers to the size of the stone’s individual abrasive grains. A low grit in the 100 to 200 range will quickly clear your knife of small chips, but a mid-range grit between 1000 and 2000 is typically the best for sharpening knives. Anything higher than that will simply make a sharp knife even sharper.
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There are a few different kinds of whetstones to consider as well. A water stone, for instance will sharpen your knife faster than an oil stone, but will also wear down much faster. In other words, finding the right whetstone very much depends on what kind of knives you have—how big they are and how often they need to be sharpened being chief considerations. Here are four of the tops to choose from.
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