Daily Knife Edge Maintenance With Strop
Summary
TLDRIn this instructional video, the host shares personal techniques for daily knife maintenance, emphasizing simplicity and efficiency. They demonstrate using a brick, wood, and homemade leather straps to sharpen knives, comparing the process to using a Trocero 3000 whetstone. The host highlights the importance of a quick edge repair for professionals with limited time and suggests that a strop with stropping compound can restore a sharp edge in under a minute. The video caters to those seeking to maintain knife sharpness with minimal effort.
Takeaways
- 🔪 The video demonstrates a method for maintaining knife sharpness on a daily basis, which is particularly useful for busy professionals or those who value sharp knives daily.
- ⏱ The daily knife maintenance process is simple and can be done in just one or two minutes, making it a practical routine for many.
- 🛠️ The presenter uses a combination of tools including a wooden board, a brick, and leather straps to maintain the sharpness of their knives.
- 💎 The presenter mentions using an 'NK' stropping compound purchased from Amazon for sharpening, which has proven effective for their needs.
- 🔨 The brick is used to dull the knives before sharpening, but it is noted that this step is not recommended for home use due to the potential for excessive wear.
- 📦 The presenter made their own leather straps due to dissatisfaction with the quality and cost of those found online.
- 📈 The video includes a comparison between using a 'Trica' sharpening system and stropping with a compound, showing the effectiveness of both methods.
- 🌟 The presenter emphasizes the importance of using light pressure when stropping to avoid damaging the knife or the stropping surface.
- 🔄 The J-motion technique is explained as a way to sharpen the tip of the knife without digging into the stropping surface.
- 📉 The brick is shown to roughen the edge of the knife, requiring a quick touch-up with a 3000-grit stone to restore the edge.
- 🗣️ The video script includes personal anecdotes and commentary, adding a conversational tone to the instructional content.
Q & A
What is the main topic of the video script?
-The main topic of the video script is about maintaining and sharpening knives on a daily basis in a personal kitchen setting.
What does the speaker suggest as the daily knife maintenance routine?
-The speaker suggests a simple daily knife maintenance routine that involves spending one or two minutes to keep the knives sharp, using a method that has worked well for them.
What tools does the speaker mention using for knife maintenance?
-The speaker mentions using a piece of wood, a brick, leather straps, a stropping compound, and a Trocero 3000 stone for knife maintenance.
Why does the speaker use a brick in the knife maintenance process?
-The speaker uses a brick to dull the knives, which is part of the process to prepare them for sharpening, although it's noted that this step is not typically necessary for daily use.
What is the significance of the 'J motion' when stropping a knife?
-The 'J motion' is used to allow the tip of the knife to be sharpened without digging into the strop or stone, protecting both the knife edge and the sharpening tool.
What is the recommended frequency for the daily knife maintenance routine mentioned in the script?
-The speaker recommends doing the daily knife maintenance routine every three to four days, but it can be adapted based on individual needs and time constraints.
What type of knives does the speaker believe would benefit most from this maintenance method?
-The speaker believes that Japanese knives with a Rockwell rating of 59 and above would benefit most from this method due to their ability to hold an edge better.
What is the speaker's opinion on using a ceramic rod for knife maintenance?
-The speaker suggests that a ceramic rod is not ideal for Japanese knives and may leave a rougher edge, but it could be suitable for other types of knives, especially those with a Rockwell rating of 58 and below.
How does the speaker load the stropping compound on the leather strap?
-The speaker loads the stropping compound by applying it to the leather strap and then stropping the knife on the loaded strap.
What is the speaker's recommendation for maintaining knives with a Rockwell rating of 58 and below?
-For knives with a Rockwell rating of 58 and below, the speaker recommends using a ceramic or steel rod for quick and frequent edge alignment throughout the day.
Outlines
🔪 Knife Sharpening Routine
The speaker discusses a common question from subscribers about maintaining knife sharpness daily. They introduce their personal method of knife maintenance, emphasizing there's no one-size-fits-all approach but sharing what works for them. The process involves using a piece of wood, a brick, and homemade leather straps to sharpen knives. The speaker also mentions using an NK stropping compound purchased from Amazon and plans to compare different sharpening compounds in the future. They compare the Tricera and strop methods for knife sharpening and demonstrate how to dull and then sharpen the knives using these techniques.
🌞 Morning Knife Sharpening Technique
The paragraph focuses on a quick and efficient knife sharpening technique suitable for busy mornings. The speaker describes their routine of using a splash and go stone and a strop for maintaining a sharp edge on their knives. They explain the importance of using a J-motion when stropping to protect the knife tip and ensure even sharpening. The speaker also discusses the use of different grit stones and their preference for the 3000 grit for its fast cutting qualities. The video includes a demonstration of stropping a dull knife to restore its sharpness within a minute.
🛠️ Correcting Over-Sharpening Mistakes
After accidentally dulling the knives too much with a brick, the speaker demonstrates how to correct this mistake using a 3000 grit stone. They emphasize the importance of using light pressure and proper technique when sharpening to avoid damaging the knife edge. The quick correction process involves a brief session of sharpening strokes on the stone to restore the knife's edge. The speaker also mentions the use of a ceramic rod as an alternative for certain knives, but notes it's not ideal for Japanese knives.
⏰ Quick Sharpening for Busy Kitchens
The speaker provides advice for maintaining knife sharpness in a busy kitchen environment, suggesting that a quick daily stropping can keep knives in top condition. They demonstrate a rapid sharpening technique using a strop and explain that this method is particularly effective for Japanese knives with a Rockwell rating of 59 and above. The speaker also advises on the frequency of sharpening for different knife types and emphasizes the importance of spending just a minute each day to ensure a sharp cutting edge.
🏠 Everyday Knife Maintenance
In this paragraph, the speaker shares their personal method of knife maintenance for everyday use. They recommend using a strop or whetstone to polish the edge of the knife before starting the day. The speaker demonstrates the technique and emphasizes its simplicity and effectiveness. They also discuss the affordability of starting blocks as an alternative to more expensive options and provide tips for maintaining these tools. The video concludes with the speaker's invitation for viewers to share their own knife maintenance methods and to provide feedback on the demonstrated technique.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Knife Sharpening
💡Stropping
💡Stropping Compound
💡Rockwell Rating
💡Tricera
💡Knife Maintenance
💡J-Motion
💡Ceramic Rod
💡Polishing
💡Brick
Highlights
The video demonstrates daily knife maintenance techniques for keeping knives sharp.
Different methods for knife sharpening are discussed, emphasizing there's no one-size-fits-all approach.
The presenter shares their personal method that has worked well for them in their kitchen.
Quick cut tests are performed to show the initial sharpness of the knives used in the demonstration.
Daily knife maintenance is suggested to take only one to two minutes of time.
The use of a wooden board and brick for dulling the knives is shown as part of the process.
Homemade leather and hardwood stropping straps are introduced as an alternative to expensive options.
The presenter discusses the use of NK stropping compound purchased from Amazon for sharpening.
A comparison between different sharpening compounds is planned for a future video.
The Trocero 3000 is used for polishing, and its benefits are highlighted.
Dulling the knives with a brick is demonstrated, but it's noted as not recommended for home use.
The goal of the technique is to maintain a sharp knife in a short amount of time, suitable for professionals or those with busy schedules.
A quick sharpening process on a 3000 grit stone is shown to restore the edge after bricking.
Experimentation with leather stropping straps is mentioned for achieving a sharp edge.
The importance of using minimal pressure when stropping is emphasized for best results.
The J-motion technique for stropping is explained for sharpening the tip without damaging the stone or strap.
The presenter's method for maintaining knives with a Rockwell rating of 59 and up is detailed.
For knives with a Rockwell rating of 58 and below, the use of a ceramic or steel rod is recommended.
The video concludes with a reminder that the presented techniques are part of the presenter's personal kitchen practice.
Transcripts
so one of the questions i get a lot from
my subscribers is how do you keep your
knives sharp on a daily basis so i'll
show you guys exactly what i do in my
personal kitchen and you guys can decide
if that's something that's right for you
there are many ways to go about it
there's never one way to do anything
but this is a method that i have found
that has worked really well and so i'll
show you what i used to do and what i
currently do and i'll explain to you why
i actually do it so i've got two knives
here both of them are fairly sharp i'll
do a really quick cut test to show you
guys that
but for the most part daily knife
maintenance is really simple it's
something you guys can do with just
about one or two minutes of your time so
this is actually what i did
i still do it actually quite often um i
don't do it every single day now but i
do it every three to four days just
because my time is actually quite tight
these days in the mornings especially
when all the kids are up and they're
everyone's trying to get fed at the same
time
um
so
what i basically what i normally do uh
so let you before i go through the
process let me just show you what i have
here so i've got a piece of wood that
i'll use to dull the knives with i also
have my brick the brick will actually
get used a little bit today i may want
to use it just depending on how much
wear i actually want to put onto the
knives and i have some straps here so
this these are straps that i actually
made
i couldn't really find good straps on
amazon a lot of them were just really
expensive for what they charged and they
were just really crappy material so i
went out and bought the best leather i
can find and some good hardwoods at a
local supplier here and so i have about
a dozen of these left i actually had to
make a few of them because again as you
guys know cost comes down when you make
more and so i made it uh about two dozen
of them to begin with so i have about a
dozen left um they work really well but
today we're going to be using the strop
with the
compound the strapping compound i use
the nk so i bought this mk i think for
like nine dollars on amazon i'll leave a
link in description uh it's actually
working really well and i didn't want to
go all out and buy like three or four
different compounds i basically just
want to buy a compound that
is gonna be
giving me a good result for just one
compound and so i bought this one it was
my only compound that i purchased so far
and actually works really well i am
going to be picking up some dmt and
other diamond stone compounds they
actually are on their way here so
hopefully in a few weeks i'll have a
comparison between different sharpening
compounds out there or polishing
compounds
and i've got my trocero 3000 and so
today's comparison booty will be between
the tricera and the strop
and uh yeah so that is it so let me show
you the knives right now before we begin
they all they are both fairly sharp
from a previous video i did so very very
clean
and i think they were both polished on a
shafting glass
6000
so yeah very very very clean
well one was on the 6000 and one was on
the chose 5000 i think but as you can
see both knives are actually fairly
sharp
toss this aside
okay so then now we will
dull the knives
and so
i'll run the knives
so that's that
however uh i wouldn't recommend you
doing this at home
with a lot of pressure on your board but
i'm doing it just for the sake of
this video
all right let's see how the knives look
okay so
they're still fairly sharp so i'll brick
them so this is my brick
you guys know the brick
yeah i'll just hold it here
okay
i'll do it
10 times
i think that's five six seven eight nine
ten
okay one two three four five six seven
eight
nine ten
i get so much flack from people saying
that i can't count
you know you try doing a youtube video
talking at the same time and counting
when counting on the brick doesn't
really matter okay so here we are so
this knife i actually didn't mean to
wear these knives as much as i did
but they are probably worn
beyond what you would normally get after
a day's use so this video was really
more for those who want to maintain
their knives every single day and so i
may have to screw that up but
that's okay that's all right so both
knives are very very dull
just uh just to show you now or
dull in my in my
definition of dull okay so they're very
dull and this would be appropriate for
going on the 1000 grit stone at this
point but i'm gonna go
from here and hopefully i can achieve a
decent edge
so the goal of this was for people who
are mainly those who are professionals
who have
don't have a lot of time in the mornings
before their work day um or for those
who just who are like me who want a
sharp knife every single day
and so basically when you wake up in the
morning and you only have let's say you
know you're into you're in work you only
have five minutes to get ready how do
you make make sure that your knives stay
sharp
and you can go through a sharpening
process now if you had time in your
restaurant and you had time to prepare
15 minutes 20 minutes to actually
prepare your knives that's one story but
most people who are just getting to work
may only have five minutes to get ready
before they have to start cooking and so
this is where this technique comes in
normally i wake up in the mornings and
when my knives aren't this dull i
actually just hop on my stone i actually
have a a splash and go stone usually
just underneath my kitchen cabinet
and
oh here we are
so i soak my stone or i apply water to
my stone
and this is appropriate for a splash and
go if you have a soaking stone this
would not be the best method because
they take time to prepare unless you
have that time in your workday
so you throw some water on your stone
and all i normally do is actually get
into the mornings uh you know
with my knives that are fairly sharp and
i just simply strap
okay and i'll do this for about two to
three minutes
and this usually will give you a fairly
good edge but as you can see here it's
taking off a lot of material because i
actually was
i shouldn't have bricked this knife for
this demonstration but i will
but i did
so i'm just going to try to just run
with it see how i do
i might have to juice do something a
little different later
but this is what i do in the mornings
this is i walk into my kitchen and i
have a few minutes i will just
spend about a minute max
doing this
to the knives in my kitchen or per knife
and this will usually result in a fairly
clean edge
and you guys are probably wondering you
know should you use a higher grit stone
uh you can but for my personal knives in
case you guys are not aware i use the
tricera 800 for my sharpening and the
3000 for my polishing i don't really go
beyond that because i like the way the
3000 grit
leaves the finish that it leaves
and also because it's a very good fast
cutting stone so for me
6000 is nice i don't really care for the
mirror polish of mix most six thousand
grit stones
okay so i don't know how many that is
that probably 15
strokes on each side
and draw the knife off really quickly
here
oh by the way it is uh about 9 00 a.m
right now and it is 90 degrees outside
that's why i have a fan going hopefully
this the fan won't affect the sound too
much but it is brutally hot
and if i didn't have the fan going on
right now i would not be able to to film
this uh this episode
okay so it's fairly sharp again it's
it's not something that i normally i
don't normally break my knives and
normally when i do this method the
knives are a little bit sharper than
what i approached the stone with
so overall though you can see that just
with a minute you know a minute of
stropping will give you a pretty clean
edge on a 3000 grit stone
okay and this paper is falling apart
okay so that's what i normally do in the
mornings with my stones and my knives
recently though since i had since i
started making my own straps i have been
experimenting and seeing if a leather
strap will actually produce similar or
better results so we're going to find
out
uh that's the knife there
so just so we are clear this is the edge
right now
okay so let's move this aside and so i'm
gonna do the same thing so imagine
you're getting into work and you have a
couple minutes to get ready you have a
hopefully a fairly sharp knife maybe not
super sharp but definitely sharper than
what we have here
and you simply pull your strut you load
with compound hopefully the compound has
been loaded um you guys can do it
without compound the compound just makes
it work a little bit faster i have found
that the strap without compound will
work
i would say about well with compounds
about 30 40 faster in terms of overall
speed but the result is pretty much the
same
okay so you simply strut
and that's all i'm going to do i'm going
to go back and forth
one at a time or one stroke at a time
and i'll go
let's say 15
counts on each side
and if i'm off
forgive me i can't count okay
so
that's not something i care too much
about
um and to address another question uh
one of my subscribers asked why do i do
a j motion
when i'm doing an edge trailing strap
the answer is actually quite simple it
may not be something you guys have
thought about doing a j motion actually
allows me to pull the
tip of the knife along
the strap or the stone and come up
and so it allows the the tip to be
sharpened but not to dig into my stone
or my strap
and so you're basically what you're
doing is you're pulling away
from the tip and then you're coming up
okay so if you guys never heard anyone
explain it this way that's why i do it
this way
i don't know if anyone else
has actually
talked about that but that's why i do
the j-struct or the j-motion
okay so all you're doing is you're
protecting the tip from digging into the
stone
or you're protecting the straw from
getting a hole in it so that's all it is
there's no magic there it's not
something that uh
that is really special all it is is
you're protecting the
stone or the edge
or the tip you can also go from
heel to tip as well that works just as
well
and whatever you're comfortable with
just do it it's just something that
i'm used to my muscles
going this way because i taught myself
how to sharpen and strap this way
so it's something that i can do very
easily
and the key to strapping successfully is
you are applying as little pressure as
possible you're basically just allowing
that knife's edge to kiss
the strap or the stone okay so very very
light and there is no pressure at all
i'm simply letting the knife
edge just run along this drop
okay i don't know how many that is
hopefully that's around 15 maybe
maybe 20.
so there is some compound there i will
leave the compound on
actually i should
get the compound off
alright
now it's wet
okay
okay so fairly sharp
so you can see there
okay so that's from the brick that
obvious uh
skip there that's for me breaking the
knife and again this is you should not
have or i should not have
applied the brick
on the cutting edge but you can see the
knives are fairly sharp
so at this point you know if i mean like
i said the the dullness of this knife
was more like a week or two weeks of
worth of use at this point normally
i
again i shouldn't have applied the brick
to it but you can see how it works let
me do a couple things um
let me just uh
yeah i can definitely feel that the edge
is a little bit rougher than it should
be
uh the brick does damage the cutting
edge quite a bit
so i'm going to throw it onto a 3000
grit stone
and i'm just gonna do a really quick
really quick shopping
session on this thing
okay i'm just gonna go 10 times on each
side
yeah 10 strokes
okay i'll do that a few times
hopefully that will take off
or it should take off the
major imperfections on the cutting edge
okay that's five i'm just counting down
now
okay
okay let's go one this is a really quick
sharpening
session
okay so
let's see how the edges
okay so very clean so definitely the
edge is back there's no skipping yeah no
major skipping on the paper actually
yeah no skipping at all so
um so that's what i normally do in the
mornings or i go single strokes but you
can see within with 30 seconds less than
a minute of sharpening on that stone the
edge is back to normal it's very very
nice
so now we'll try this again without the
brick
and so
poor woods falling apart
this is a
scrap wood that i picked up from the
local hardware store here but very very
soft stuff i don't know what it is but
it's leaving flakes all over my table
okay that's not good
okay so let's see what we got
that's still fairly sharp
so
that is the goal okay so uh imagine you
wake up in the morning and you go
to you to your kitchen and you have one
minute to get ready okay
um
let's pull this knife on the brick
three times let's try three times
one
two
three
let's see how we do here
let's see how we did
okay so it's actually
even though it can still cut the paper
it's actually quite rough
okay
yeah you guys can definitely tell okay
so this should work this right here
so you go into your kitchen in the
morning at work or just your home
kitchen and you have a knife you have a
couple minutes to get ready before you
cook
you pull out your strop or your stone
either way works so this is a strap
i will strap the knife
just a few times let's move this over
here
i'll go let me just count
12 times on each side so that was two
okay that's three
four
five
six
seven
eight
nine
ten
did we say twelve times
eleven
i hope i said twelve okay so that is
twelve times
and uh we will do a really quick wipe
here
okay
there we go
see very very clean and that took uh to
put what 30 12 times on each side one
second that took less than a minute less
than a minute of work
and your edge is back to normal or back
to the hopefully close to the original
polish of the knife before you actually
or before i bricked it which on which is
on the 3000 grit stone
so that's what i do and uh you know
that's something i do i don't do that
every day because i don't have time to
do it every day like i said i do this i
use this method about three to f every
three to four days and it has kept my
knives really really sharp in the
kitchen
and it typically works better for
japanese knives mainly because japanese
knives can hold an edge better and
so you know so as to which knife you
should use it with if you have knives
with a rock well rating of 59 and up
i think this method will work really
well that's my daughter she's going to
the
she's saying daddy come
she's going to the kids space museum
with my wife and uh and the twins
um
i lost my train of thought
so i don't know how long this video is
but i think it's gonna be less than 20
minutes yeah
um
you guys appreciate my longer videos
don't you you know i don't skip anything
you see everything
um hopefully you guys appreciate that
let me know if you guys do or if you
guys don't
uh so yeah this is what i do and so oh
yes so hrcs so knives that are typically
in the 59 and up this would work better
because you can just do it once a day
when you wake up or at the evening
before you go to bed or before you leave
work so that works really really well
for a knife with a rockwell rating of 58
and below you're better off just using
something like
a uh
just a rod a ceramic rod and you go into
work
and before every cooking you know you
just simply
do this and every few hours you can go
back
and just do it really quickly because
knives with a rockwell rating of 58 and
below
they actually work really really well on
your rods whether ceramic or steel
and because they actually are fairly
soft
the
cutting edge will fall out of
realignment fairly quickly so you don't
have you may not have a minute to
actually hop onto your stone or your
block or your structuring block and you
know and stop for a minute you might
just have 10 seconds before before you
actually go to your next meal right so
if you have a european style knife i
think that a rod will work better for
you
but if you have a japanese knife and you
simply just want to make sure that you
can spend one minute a day where you can
keep a knife really sharp
again this is i found the best method
that i have
used and i use it in my personal kitchen
as well
i'm watching actually i'm curious to see
how the cutting edge is after that
okay see
so
a ceramic rod is good for certain knives
definitely not good for
japanese knives you can see here the cut
is actually fairly
fairly rough
so let's try it again let's see here
um that's actually i should have done
that from the beginning
you see i'm always learning on my
channel
so let's do it ten times on each side
okay i think that was three
four
five
six
seven
eight
nine
ten
okay
let's see
there you go see very very clean very
easy
very easy to do that is
really nice
really beautiful edge there
this knife right now can be used in any
kitchen
anywhere
that's a rough spot there
okay see so that's very easy to do it's
definitely something that you guys
should consider um whether you use a
strapping block or a whetstone it
doesn't really matter and the key is
going into your kitchen and spending
just a minute and just polishing the
edge before your work day starts or your
day starts and that's how i maintain my
knives hopefully you guys found this
video helpful i will leave the links of
everything i've used here in the
description so you guys can check them
out on your own time
except the brick the brick is mine this
is not for sale
and uh yeah so
a lot of folks have asked me to buy this
brick
it's a brick don't don't buy from me
just go to your local hardware store and
pay 50 cents for one even though they
don't make bricks like this anymore this
has like big concrete chunks in it
yes and uh yeah so you can't find bricks
like that anymore so that is it um again
these are things that you guys can do on
your own time it's really easy
starting blocks are affordable it's a
really cheap way to do it if you guys
don't want to spend money and pay 100
you know 150 bucks for a 3000 trucera um
you can spend 40 50 bucks on a 5 000
6000 grit stone um i find that these
drops are a little bit more usable and a
little bit more
easy to use because they are more
forgiving than a wet stone and they
don't require any sort of water
maintenance
anything you load up the
surface once with with your compound and
then once a week i have found that once
a week i apply just a dab of mineral
oil and i just rub the stone on the
entire surface of the block not stone i
rub the entire surface of the block and
it pulls off a lot of the load up and
allows new compound to be exposed and
that's really all i do these days in
terms of maintaining my knives in my
kitchen so hopefully you guys have found
this video helpful if you guys did
please give the video a thumbs up and
leave your comments let me know what
other methods that you guys have found
that has worked really well for you and
again you guys know i read all my
comments so yeah feel free to leave a
comment and let me know what you guys
think of this method here and let me
know what you guys use for your personal
lives okay so catch you guys in the next
video
there's a helicopter
flying over me just when i hit the
record button
where does this always happen
ah
go away
go away go away
it's probably a ghetto bird you know
trying to catch someone in a high speed
pursuit around here
okay it's gone
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