/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>8150675
>How do I keep my knives sharp?
By sharpening them. If it is made out of metal, you can sharpen it. Once you understand how sharpening works you can use a coffee cup to sharpen your blade.
Smarter person buys a sharpening stone, those are cheap.
There are dozens of good videos in youtube that tell you how to do it.
>What are the best knives to get for the average home cook?
Victorinox. There simply are no better knives for value, and they are more than good enough for home cooking. I assume you cook for 1-4 people once a day.
>Are carbon steel knives any good?
Very good. Also completely unnecessary outside professional kitchen.
Their usefulness comes from the fact that they keep edge like none other and they can be sharpened to a really keen edge.
The minus comes from the price and the small inconvenience to dry it every time they are used.
Serious hobbyists enjoy them, and the many here that like to think they are better cooks when they own expensive shit that they barely use.

If you can't sharpen a blade with a 5 dollar tool sharpener (pictured) then you just don't know how to do that shit in the first place, leave that expensive shit to people who need them.
>>7618699
Unless you plan to only own a knife for show, then nobody and nobody gives a fuck about a smudge. It is a tool, they get used.