Wusthof Long-Term Knife Care Kit
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Product Summary
Manufacturer: WusthofBrand: Wüsthof
Model: 2901
Product features:
- Set consists of honing tool, cotton towel, blade polishing towelette
- Honing tool has wood handle, ceramic sharpening wheels
- FZ brand towelette polishes stainless steel and other metals
- Soft, 11-1/2-by-18-inch towel wipes blade after polishing
- Sharpening guide, knife-buyer's guide included
Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Wusthof Long-Term Knife Care Kit
Customer Review: Not a true Wusthof! Sharpens into a butter knife!
Summary: 1 Stars
I should have listened to the reviews! I just received it today and was very excited. But that ended after it dulled my knife.
First of all, the instructions sound easy...run your knife across the two ceramic wheels. Several times until your knife it sharp. And wala, your knives are sharp!
Not the case for me. I have the Wustof Grand Prix II knives. I was still practicing how to use my honing steel and didn't want to continue putting my knives through my torture training. So I thought I could use this ceramic wheel until I got the hand of the honing steel. I gripped the piece as told, and ran it through with very gentle pressure. Pulling my knife through it was heartbreaking! You could hear the knife resisiting the pull. You'll hear a "screeching" sound and NO the ceramic wheels do not move when you are pulling it. The knife just runs on top of where the two wheels connect and you pull. Yes, your knife might scuddle and jump as you pull, it is resisting the sharpener. NO matter how light you pull through!! I never dishwash my knives or let them airdry so you can imagine my dismay. I just thought that is normal. So I stopped running my chef's knife through this and instead, tried my smaller and easily replaceable paring knife. Same thing! Upon closer inspection, you could see curved scratches along the side of the blade! And little knicks along the blade. It made my paring knife dull, after only 3 runs! Very disappointed. The wheels even look like they are about to fall of the piece! The two wheel screws are so loose that with enough pressure for your knife, I am convince it would eventually fall off. Do not buy this! You might as well just run your knife along your steel kitchen sink! ... You'll probably get a sharper edge than this junk! Buy this only if you are stubborn (like I was), and ignored all the reviews and if you have want to junk your good Wusthofs for the super dull supermarket knives. Then go ahead, have fun destroying your knives! Wusthof should be ashamed of themselves to put their quality known name on this piece of JUNK! Now I have to send my knives to Wusthof for sharpening! ARG!
Description of Wusthof Long-Term Knife Care Kit
Maintaining the blade edges of world-class Wüsthof knives protects the lifetime investment these kitchen instruments represent and keeps them at their most useful. This kit provides essential tools for proper care. Central to the kit is a honing tool consisting of a wood handle and ceramic wheels. Holding the tool with the left hand and drawing a knife several times between the wheels with the right hand hones the blade edge, which is the final step in a professional sharpening process. (A sharpening steel only realigns an edge, which is also essential to knife care.) Using the honing tool prolongs the period between full sharpenings. Accompanying the honing tool is a FZ brand towelette for polishing a stainless-steel knife blade (the towelette polishes other metals, also), and a soft, cotton hand towel (11-1/2 by 18 inches) for wiping the blade after polishing. A sharpening guide and a knife-buyer's guide are also included. --Fred BrackKnife Sharpeners
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