Chef's Choice 130 Professional Knife-Sharpening Station, Platinum
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Chef's Choice 130 Professional Knife-Sharpening Station, Platinum
Customer Review: Excellent device
Summary: 4 Stars
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.
Customer Review: Excellent.
Summary: 4 Stars
I researched knife sharpeners for about one year before I bought this one. I'm happy with my purchase. You can make knives scary sharp with this device. I followed other reviewers recommendations to read the manual carefully. A little practice and you can create a very sharp knife. I can't say much more about this knife sharpener without some sort of scientific apparatus to measure how sharp is very very sharp.Customer Review: Exceptional Sharpening
Summary: 5 Stars
You hear a lot of comments on risking your good knives to an electric sharpener. Not willing to send mine out and without a convenient location nearby (unless I trusted some kid at the mall cutlery store), I went with one that even Cooks recommends. Sorry Alton.
My knives are all Wusthof Classics, so, a mistake here would have been costly. Even though I steel my knives all the time, three years of use had taken the edge off. I was building up calluses from cutting and using excess force, so something had to be done.
This thing worked wonders. My knives slice tomatoes again with no force. Amazing. I took this thing in to work to sharpen my co-workers blades. All of their knives of various quality (Chicago Cutlery, Henckel, farberware) all could cut soft tomatoes again.
Downsides, which really aren't...
Really cheap stamped knives are going to get eaten by any grinder.
Although you can strop serrated blades, you aren't putting a grind on them. Then again, serrated blades don't lose their edges in the crescents like your regular knives.
My wusthofs have a heel on them that can prevent the new edge from going to the end. Wusthof has a new line that doesn't have this issue. My Wusthof santoku also doesn't have this issue. This isn't the sharpeners fault.
It's big. No kidding.
Customer Review: Exceptional results for a great price
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased the M130 recently and must say it was a great deceision. I have a large family and I am always hosting some event. Not having to sharpen knives while prepping and cooking it makes it so much easy. I never knew how dull my knives really were until I used them after sharpening with the M130. Wow! What a difference. I highly recomend this product.Customer Review: Fantastic sharpener
Summary: 5 Stars
We bought this particular sharpener because it was rated the best electric knife sharpener by Cook's Illustrated magazine. We are extremely happy with the product and what it has done for our knives.