Zwilling J.A. Henckels Twinsharp Knife Sharpener

Simple and effective
I tried this sharpener (for practice) on the ...Farberware knives I hadn't touched since I tried Henckels 4-star and Pro-S knives. These knives had been beaten up from throwing them in the dishwasher, and the Twinsharp put a very serviceable edge on the Farberware slicing knife; while not as effective or well-balanced as the Henckels knives, it *would* once again, smoothly and without fuss, cut through an onion. Be careful about the downward pressure you apply - a little more may be required at first, but a light pressure and smooth motion is required for the final finishing strokes, and you want to tilt the knife to keep the EDGE parallel to the countertop at the point the sharpener touches.

I then ran my 6-month old Henckels chef's knife, which was still pretty effective, though the sharpener. The knife cuts much more smoothly, and the sharpener eliminated any "dead spots" in the cutting edge. In addition, this sharpener smoothed out the three nicks that resulted when the...

Sharp Edge Quick & Easy
Most of todays kitchen knives are hard stainless steel. Therefore, they fail to properly take an edge when in need of sharpening. At the factory, the first edge is ground in and unlike the directions say, that edge sooner or later requires touching up. The Henckels Twinsharp Knife Sharpener does just that. A few quick "pull thru's" and the blade is dressed no matter the level of steel blade hardness. So, if you are not a master of the sharpening steel and want to do fast and easy food prep. Then by all means consider the Twinsharp. It really works, but sooner than later you will need to find a way to get get you kitchen knives fully sharpened.

It does the job
I don't have the best knives in the world...and they're quite old. They've only been sharpened once in 10 years. They were barely able to cut anything anymore. I thought I would invest in a modest sharpener just to see if this would sharpen before I needed to purchase new knives. All I can tell you is that you just need to hold the knife over an onion and it seems to melt right through. I don't know whether that just meant it honed the knife like the Amazon reviewer noted, but all my knives now are as sharp as they can be.

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