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Knife sharpener for serrated knives: here's how to sharpen your serrated knives

Serrated knives, such as bread knives or steak knives, are specially designed for cutting products with a hard exterior and soft interior. These knives usually stay sharp longer than plain-edged knives, but once they become dull, sharpening them is a lot more challenging. This is because each tooth of the serration has to be sharpened individually. Nevertheless, with a special knife sharpener for serrated knives, it is possible to sharpen serrated knives yourself.

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Features of a knife sharpener for serrated knives

To sharpen serrated knives, you use special sharpening steels or sharpeners with a conical profile, often made of ceramic or diamond. You insert these manually into each serration, then sharpen with controlled movements on the side where the serrations are fitted. It is important to work consistently and maintain the correct angle. Although this is precision work, it produces sharp and durable results. Knivesandtools offers the right sharpening tools and step-by-step guides for this.

Thanks to the small contact surface of the knife sharpeners, they follow the serrations of the blade. Please note: sharpening a serrated knife with a pull-through sharpener may leave a slightly different grind and slightly rounder serration. But the result is: a serrated knife that is sharp again and cuts as it should!

Want to sharpen the serrations more precisely? Be sure to check out our sharpening steels for manually sharpening your serrated knife.