Wusthof Steel

Wusthof Knives are a lifetime investment. Keep your Wusthof Knives sharp and your investment safe with a Wusthof Steel. Like their knives, a Wusthof Steel is forged from the world's finest hardened stainless steel. Nothing puts an edge on a knife better than a Wusthof Steel.

Like every precision instrument, a knife requires the appropriate care and maintenance. After a knife has been sharpened, it naturally loses its edge with repeated use. With a few careful strokes on a sharpening steel, you can give a dulling knife a new life. Trouble slicing tomatoes? Zip, zip, the edge is back.

Keeping your fingers squarely behind the protective haft and using a dry clean knife and a steel that has been wiped of any previous sharpening dust, hold your steel parallel with your body in your weaker hand at slightly less than an arm's length away from your body with your elbow slightly bent. With your strong hand, place the heel of your knife blade (at the handle end) at the end of the steel with the blade tipped off the steel at about a 30 degree angle. As if you were trying to cut into the steel, draw the full length of the knife in a half-moon arc down across the full length of the steel so that the tip of the knife finishes its contact with the steel just short of the protective handle.

Don't forget to keep your fingers behind the protector in case you slip. In this way you will have stroked the entire length of the knife blade along the entire length of the steel. Repeat this process several times, each time alternating sides of the blade. When you are done, carefully wipe the knife blade to prevent steel dust from getting into your food and return the steel to its slot in your knife block. Practice this and you will be able to restore a Wusthof Knife Sets edge in a few seconds. Voila! You will save yourself money in sharpening fees. You will always have sharp knives and you won't be working harder than you have to. Your friends will be impressed, too!