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		tptacek on Nov 26, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A solution to The Onion problem of J. Kenji Lopez-... It's unlikely any sharpener is going to ruin your knife; at worst, they won't put the best possible edge on it. Your knife is probably just an inert hunk of steel. :)

account42 on Nov 27, 2024 [–]

Grinding too much of the edge does ruin the knife. Usually not the entire blade is hard enough to hold a good edge.

tptacek on Nov 27, 2024 | [–]

It's a fair point, but how likely do you think it is that any knife sharpening service is actually going to do that?

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