Think about your knife as a Cutting Edge delivery system. Protecting the Cutting Edge will increase the time between sharpening’s.
Cut, chop, use your knives as they were intended. But understand, the Cutting Edge by nature is very thin and can easily be damaged, chipped.
A few tips to preserve your knives cutting edge.
- For wood butcher block holders, store you knives cutting side up so the Cutting Edge does not contact the wood.
- Many wood blocks now are constructed to hold knives vertically so the Cutting Edge does not contact the wood block.
- Magnet strips mounted to a wall are a great Cutting Edge non-contact storage method.
- Knives are easily cleaned by hand washing, but not with an abrasive faced pad. Its best not to run them through the dishwasher for two reasons. One, the Cutting Edge can contact other dishes damaging it. Two, cleaning chemicals can erode the thin sharpened edge.
- Simply make sure the Cutting Edge only makes contact what you intend to cut and whatever is your choice of a cutting board material.