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Why You Shouldn't Use This Aluminum Foil Hack To Sharpen Dull Knives By Rolland Judd Oct. 23, 2025 2:20 pm EST

A sharp knife is a chef's best friend. It slices and dices through foods like butter, creating perfectly sized ingredients destined to become your next culinary gem. Dull knives, on the other hand, are your worst enemy. They require the user to exert more force when cutting, which reinforces bad knife skills and increases the risk of injury from slippage. Truth be told, most people should be sharpening their kitchen knives more often . But without a bona fide sharpener (the honing rod in your knife block doesn't qualify), what's a person to do?

Some crafty folks online claim to have devised a way to fine-tune dull knives using only a humble piece of alu

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