With proper care of the knife, you do not have to sharpen it for a long time. It will be enough just to periodically edit it, and for this, just the same, you need a tool called musat. It will help to straighten the cutting edge of the knife and increase its sharpness.
What is this - the knife musat, how does it look and how to use it correctly? Surely you have watched more than once professional chefs or butchers on the market rule knives with a round tool resembling a file with a handle and a corrugated stem. This is the same musat.
Why do we need a knife for knives?
With regular use of Moussat, you do not have to resort to sharpening the knife, and this will significantly extend its service life, since each grinding removes a lot of metal from its working surface.
And if at home you have to resort to the procedure only a few times a day, then with the professional use of knives cooks and butchers have to edit the blade knife more than a hundred times in one working day. You can imagine what would be with their working tool, if each time they used not a muskat, but a stone or a sharpening machine.
Selecting a knife sharpener for knives
Immediately make a reservation that there are musates only for straightening knives, and there are - for straightening and sharpening. If you need a tool solely for sharpening, feel free to buy steel or glass moussat with notches and ribs. For sharpening, choose between ceramic moussat and diamond-contaminated mousse.
At the same time, note that you can not control or sharpen the cutting edge of the knife if the hardness of the metal exceeds 60 on the Rockwell scale. For such knives you already need a diamond stone or a special sharpener.
If the hardness of the metal is less than 50 units on the same scale, then during the dressing and sharpening, the musat will remove a lot of metal, which is highly undesirable. So before buying a mouser, it is recommended first to find out the hardness of the blades of your chef's tools and determine the rules for their sharpening and straightening.
When choosing a musat, you need to pay attention to the quality of the manufacturer, but it is equally important to choose the right tool for the right dimensions. Typically, the musat is equipped with a working rod of 20-40 cm in length. The optimal length is a rod that is 5-6 cm longer than the length of the blade of the main kitchen knife.
In shape, the rods of the musat are round, oval or square. There are on sale and combined tools, when one longitudinal half of the rod is glossy, the second - rough. The smooth side is needed to give the knife an ideal sharpness at the end of the dressing.
How to use mousat for knives?
If you want to learn how to use knives correctly, you should get into the habit of controlling them with musatom each time before using and immediately after the end.
When the knife is trimmed with musat, you must move its blade from the handle to the tip and simultaneously move the blade along the shaft of the moussat from its tip to the handle. It is enough to repeat the operation 2-4 times, no longer needed, otherwise it can lead to the opposite result.
To drive with a knife on musatu for sharpening knives it is necessary at an angle of 20-25 degrees. It should not be effort, it should be an easy touch. Musat should be placed vertically, resting the tip of the rod in the countertop, pre-laying a towel under it to prevent it from slipping.
Experienced cooks rule knives on weight, but for this you need to have sufficient skills. To learn how to use the instrument, it is better to first practice on inexpensive knives and only then go to the correction of expensive and high-quality knives.