Chef's Choice Electric Knife Sharpeners, Slicers

Manual sharpeners which work well are relatively new products -- until diamond abrasive wheels were available, the results of using a manual sharpening jig were often less than wonderful. The Chef's Choice 463 Pronto Asian Manual Sharpener applies that new technology to the more acutely beveled santoku's and other Asian ...

One of the trickiest tools to sharpen correctly at home is a pair of scissors. It always looks like an easy thing to do, but unless the edges of the blades meet at exactly the right angle, you might as well just buy a new pair. The Chef's Choice 500 ...

Few tools in the kitchen are handier than a sharpening steel -- except perhaps a diamond hone. The Chef's Choice 12-inch Diamond Hone Knife Sharpener is an example of what happens when you combine the cutting ability of fine industrial diamonds with the traditional chef's honing steel. The result is ...

Providing nearly restaurant-level quality in a machine that fits the average kitchen, the Chef's Choice 667 almost doubles the capacity of the average home food slicer. One-hundred-eighty watts of high torque power spins the ten-inch diameter stainless steel blade. Together those two features allow slicing of large hams, roasts and ...

The Chef's Choice 632 International Gourmet VariTilt puts 100 watts of power behind a 7-inch stainless steel circular blade for precise cutting without stalling. Continuous adjustment of the cutting thickness gives even slices of meat, bread, cheese and more -- from nearly paper thin to 3/5-inch thick.

The 632 disassembles quickly ...

The Chef's Choice 450 two-stage diamond wheel knife sharpener allows even those chefs who don't like to sharpen knives to work with sharp blades. The bevel it produces and the quality of the cutting edge won't match professional standards, but many good cooks don't care so much about the steel ...

The Chef's Choice Commercial Model 2000 Diamond Hone Knife Sharpener evens the playing field when it comes to knife sharpening. You meet all sorts of people in restaurant kitchens -- people with skill and talent, and people who are just there for the pay check. Professional quality commercial kitchen equipment evens out ...

The 100W Diamond Hone Knife Sharpener from Chef's Choice reshapes edges of worn and dulled kitchen and sporting knives in a three stage process. The first and coarsest set of diamond impregnated honing wheels puts a preset bevel on the blade edge. Second and third stages with progressively finer ...

Kitchen shears usually look and work like ordinary scissors. The only feature that makes them kitchen shears is that they come apart easily for cleaning. This pair of poultry shears from Chef's Choice beats that old paper-cutting design handily. The 9-Inch Poultry Shears cut meat, skin and gristle, and snip ...

With coarse and fine honing plates, a secure hand grip, and several aids to accuracy, the Chef's Choice Multi-Edge Diamond Hone Knife Sharpener does a good job of restoring the edges of most kitchen knives. The system isn't foolproof and shouldn't be expected to match the work of a sharpening stone. For ...

With only two stages of blade sharpening, the Chef's Choice 310 Diamond Hone could be overmatched by genuinely worn knives. If your knives are still in reasonably good shape, the two high-speed honing disc systems in the 310 should do an excellent job of restoring an edge. Major repairs could ...

With the advent of affordable industrial diamond abrasives, sharpening systems like this Chef's Choice 464 Pronto have actually begun to work properly. Older versions of this patented idea used hardened steel wheels or ceramic rods and yielded uncertain results, but the Pronto produces consistent results with a minimum of practice.

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It can be tricky to keep up with all the different Chef's Choice electric sharpeners. Read our reviews of the various choices and your head might start to spin.

The long and short of it is this... If you've got exclusively Asian knives, the 316 is probably for you. If ...

Most knife buffs turn up their noses at electric sharpeners, and for good reason. There are enough crummy ones out there that it's usually good advice to just avoid them altogether. The worst of them will chew up your edges, taking off a good chunk of metal while leaving them jagged and ...

First, let's get something out of the way... you will be hard pressed to find a better electric slicer for this price. The 610 is not a professional model -- we'll discuss what it's lacking in just a bit -- but for home use it can't be beat.

Chef's Choice makes excellent ...

The Chef's Choice lineup of electric sharpeners can be a bit tricky to navigate. We've written about the Chef's Choice M120 and the M130 previously, so now we'll tackle the 110.

First, let's get something out of the way... Chef's Choice stands out among electric sharpener manufacturers by making high-quality ...

Thinking about buying an electric sharpener? Then you need to read this.

Electric sharpeners are dangerous! And I don't mean dangerous to you, I mean dangerous to your knives. In the best case, a poor-quality sharpener will leave your edges dull. Worst case, it will remove a ton of metal from your ...

Using an electric sharpener is an easy way to ensure you get a consistent edge without delving into the art of manual sharpening.

But be careful which electric sharpener you use. Some are too aggressive -- they'll eat away at your blade and you'll soon be left with a useless knife.

Others don't sharpen ...