To prepare, using sharply ground knives, - it is a pleasure. What cannot be told about process of cooking by the person armed with knife not capable to cope even with thin skin and gentle pulp of tomato. Sharp knife – the best assistant to any hostess and the chef's friend. It is possible to grind knife by means of the musat, grinding stone or special mechanical or electric sharpener.
- Musat
- Grinding stone
- Electric or mechanical sharpener
- Rug from porous rubber or towel
1. Musat is the round or oval rod with notch terminating in the decorative handle. It needs to be established vertically, the handle up, on piece of porous rubber or on the ordinary kitchen towel folded in several layers. All these manipulations are necessary in order that its tip has not slid off surface, and the knife has not come off and has not cut you or people around. Take knife and establish it in the top point of the musat, at handle, at an angle in 20 degrees so that with musaty the wide end of edge adjoined. Carry out by knife blade down musat so that at the lower point of the musat the knife has appeared parallel to table, and its edge adjoined to the grinder. Repeat operation on the other side of the musat, other party of edge. You carry out by knife alternately with one, on the other side of the musat ten times. Accurately touch knife blade finger to find out whether sharpening satisfies you. If is not present, once again repeat the actions described above. Musata happen steel, aluminum, diamond and ceramic. The last are considered as the best.
2. Grinding stones represent bar or circle from solid material. They are artificial and natural. The best grinding stone experts call the Japanese water grinding stone of natural origin. Such stone before use surely is lowered in water and held there until from it bubbles do not cease to go. Artificial grinding stones are made of special ceramics, of abrasives and by means of drawing diamond crumb on metal or plastic surface. Here it is worth giving preference to the combined grinding stones at that on which different parties different granularity. On the party with low granularity you just sharpen knife, and on the party from high – bring it to ideal sharpness. To grind knife about grinding stone, put stone on horizontal surface. Enclose piece of porous rubber or the towel folded several times under stone – it is very important that the stone did not slide. Put knife cloth at an angle in 20 degrees to stone, so that the widest edge of knife adjoined to the most far-away from you the country of the grinder. Conduct knife on yourself gradually displacing point of contact from wide edge of knife to edge. Repeat the procedure on the one side of panel so many time how many it will be required that on knife the hangnail has appeared. Invert knife and start sharpening of other party of cloth.
3. Mechanical and electric sharpeners represent the special machines equipped with two ceramic disks. You need to place only knife, according to the instruction and to move it on itself. Many such sharpeners are equipped two sets of disks – for sharpening and for grinding of knives. Lack of mechanical and electric sharpeners is that they allow to grind knife only under one fixed corner.