/ck/ - Food & Cooking

but op those aren't the only options
you can change the angle of the sharpening to change how often it needs to be sharpened, it doesn't mean you have to choose something that is difficult to sharpen

something with a degree of flexibility and a relatively steep angle is good for a beater knife you're going to abuse because the edge won't chip like with a harder metal, you don't really need to sharpen it very often because it's performance stays the same for far longer

just don't pretend your beater knife is meant for fine work, a steep angle will not be as sharp as desired for some tasks like
>slicing tomatoes
and
>slicing extremely thin slices of fish to show off your thin fragile razor blade

>>12984156
teaching techniques is basically a game of telephone, whether it's that people are poor learners or poor teachers, information is easily lost
especially when people stop experimenting, or something changes about the material being used.

people far too often teach 'how' without understanding 'why'

even if the person is a prodigy, if they can't communicate on why it works, the big picture is being missed

>>12984165
far more than I know, tonnes of it's been lost over time I'm sure, some possibly for the better, like some people will use metal files on knives and that's just too coarse for anything sharper than a cleaver
there is a tonne of information available on the main techniques, but understanding how an edge behaves is more important

what I think helped me the most was looking into axe sharpening, because it got me curious about the whole sharpness vs durability debate, and with the type of work I was doing, you needed both
..which lead into more research about metal types and edge hardening techniques and stranger stuff like if it's possible to soften a blade temporarily and reharden it after sharpening, which turned out to be possible but just too much effort, probably something they did for swords though.
maybe one day I'll manufacture a tool sharpening rig that will be good enough get chinese knock off versions.