This seems like a good place to ask this: My sabatier chefs knife has ended up in the dishwasher quite a few times (visiting relatives trying to be helpful etc), has a good few small notches and generally struggles to keep an edge. I use a ceramic bar style sharpener - just one from ikea i think. It's not an expensive knife, but it's the most useful of the kitchen knives i own, so i'd like to bring it back from the brink - is there a way of re-edging it or something? do i need a whetstone and an hour or so, or is it more involved/costly than it's worth for a cheapish knife?
They last for ages and it's a useful thing to have.
Or you could get a lansky system copy from aliexpress. They're pretty good - although not the be/end-all they're made out to be. I still have mixed feelings about mine.
I was thinking of getting a whetstone - the steel is pretty useless for sharpening the smaller knives i have. I wasn't sure if a whetstone would be any good for taking the edge back past the notches, though.
This seems like a good place to ask this: My sabatier chefs knife has ended up in the dishwasher quite a few times (visiting relatives trying to be helpful etc), has a good few small notches and generally struggles to keep an edge. I use a ceramic bar style sharpener - just one from ikea i think. It's not an expensive knife, but it's the most useful of the kitchen knives i own, so i'd like to bring it back from the brink - is there a way of re-edging it or something? do i need a whetstone and an hour or so, or is it more involved/costly than it's worth for a cheapish knife?