How To Sharpen A Serrated Knife
Serrated knife sharpening is entirely different when compared to sharpening of traditional knife blade. For the serrated knives, each and every serration needs to be separately sharpened to restore the sharp edge so that it works smoothly while using. Serrated knife, in general, is just similar to the function of a saw. It cuts the items when it is not sharp but it will shred rather than smoothly cutting. In this article, you’ll learn how to sharpen a serrated knife with knife sharpener.
To get serrations, you need a cone-shaped taper sharpener specially designed to sharpen the individual serrations, cannot be achieved using the flat sharpening stones. Once you have picked up the serrated knife right sharpener, follow the below guidelines to sharpen a serrated knife.
- Prior starting up, select an appropriate size of sharpening tool, available in fine, coarse, ceramic and extra-fine grits as per the condition of your knife. For most of the serrated knives, fine grit will provide sharpening at good rate and provides the sharp cutting edge. The extra-fine and ceramic grits provides a polished edge. The coarse grits are generally used for dull serrated knife at greater sharpening rate.
- Serrated knife sharpener must match up to the narrow and wide serrations. To match, measure the overall length of the shaft of the sharpener to the size of the serrated knife.
- Hold the sharpener firmly in left hand and the serrated knife in the right hand and now use some back, light, and short, forth strokes to sharpen the each of the serration edges which are beveled. After giving few strokes, stop it for sometime to feel the raised burr on the blade back side.
- When you feel the raised burr, move onto the next section of the serrated knife and repeat the whole procedure until and unless the ground side of the knife is completely ground.
- Flip the serrated knife if all the serrations are sharpened separately.
- With a smooth, light stroke gently grind the remaining left out areas off the knife, do not sharpen the serrated knife back side.
- That’s all; your knife has been perfectly sharpened and is now ready to cut.
While sharpening a serrated knife, remember few points in your mind. A serrated knife must be sharpened at a time only one tooth. Partially serrated knives usually have an angle between 20 to 25 degrees, exactly like the plain-edged knife portion has and find the professional knife sharpener from the local kitchen supply store.
Thus you could restore the sharpness of your serrated knife by following the all above mentioned points, tips and also by choosing the appropriate and the right sharpening tool for your serrated knife.