Beware: Sharpen Your Shamefully Dull Knives with E5 Electric Knife Sharpener
Work Sharp Culinary Kitchen Knife Sharpener with Ceramic Honing Rod, Gray, 7.2 x 4.5 x 5.2 inches
There is always a grim shade to a lot of products we see these days. Beyond the TV commercials and the ad-brochures, the real experience can turn out to be a bit on the downside. Fortunately, the E5 Electric Knife Sharpener is one special item up my alley. I already recommended it to all my lady friends and guys in my social circle. This thing can not only sharpen blunt steel, but you can actually reshape knives (*to some extent for the extra-extra sharpness).
Thanks to the revolutionary abrasive belt technology, the E5 Electric Knife Sharpener can do its magic in just about half a minute. I know tech-lingo does not make any sense to 90% of the common readers. In layman terms, I am referring to a revolving belt inside the sharpener’s body. It grinds against the knife, giving it the much needed “overhaul” for any kind of cutting or cooking related job.
Good Stuff about E5 Electric Knife Sharpener:
Knives usually don’t get to see the light of the day in a typical household. Ask yourself; how many times have you sharpened your knives before? People just replace them with new ones. In most of the cases, these poor fellows are rubbed, mashed and grinded against all kinds of blunt surfaces for sharpening purposes.
Little do our fellow knife owners know that sharpening knives is an art. You can’t just pick up a metal shard or the side of a marble counter top and then grind your knife against it. That’s only going to make the blade more dull.
E5 Electric Knife Sharpener is a brand new release from Work Sharp Culinary Tools. On the outside, this machine looks like a toaster – except for the fact that you slide in knives in there. Anyhow, your knives will no longer face the serial neglect from you anymore. You just need to set the knife inside the machine’s open slot and then flip the switch at the bottom. The rest will happen on its own.
- Small size, compact layout and actually looks nice from a distant overview.
- Virtually the fastest knife sharpener with results oriented approach.
- Automatic shutdown/turn off mode. This way, you don’t have to recheck by pulling out the knife to keep tabs on the progress.
What Else Is In There?
By default, the E5 Electric Knife Sharpener has different preset settings. If you just want to sharpen the knife, you will select the “Sharpen” preset. The electric metal belt will quickly work to give your knife the long lasting edge. The machine also has a ceramic honing rod; it comes as an add-on with every new order. The rod is for old-school owners who rely on the satisfaction of doing things manually.
Chris Loeffler, the manager at Darex (parent company of Work Sharp Culinary Tools) recently said about E5 Electric Knife Sharpener, “We wanted to create Work Sharp Culinary as a separate brand to release a line of sharpeners that looked good enough to stay in the kitchens. Ideally, these sharpeners would be small, quiet, clean, safe and dead simple to use.” This is exactly what the company has managed to release. The E5 model is one of the best products to sit on your kitchen countertop.
Getting Familiar with Shape Cycles?
If you are ever on the “shape” preset, you should know that it doesn’t work the first few times. Technically, you are reshaping your knives at an angle. It means that you’re going to have to swipe the knife in and out of the E5 Electric Knife Sharpener more than once before you can cut apples, meat, tomatoes etc.
The sharpen setting is the best and most efficient preset in this product. However, you need to be patient by pulling the knife through slowly, and then changing sides as you go along. The machine will automatically stop by the end of 7 – 10 shape cycles. This is an indicator of the inside abrasive belt telling you that the job is finally done. All in all, using the E5 Electric Knife Sharpener is as easy as plugging in the switch in the power socket.
Given the fact that you are the lady of the house, or a dude who prefers cutting his own meat, this is a handy product to have. You can also give it as a gift to your friends and frenemies instead of a conventional perfume, cologne or wristwatch. At least, they will be able to get some practical use out of the E5 Electric Knife Sharpener.