How to Sharpen Serrated Knives?

How to sharpen serrated knives? Sharpening a knife is a general activity. Almost all types of knives take similar treatment for sharpening except a serrated knife because of its typical blade shape. Let's have a glance at a serrated knife.

What is a Serrated Knife?

A serrated knife differs from others as the edge of its blade is different in shape. A serrated knife has sharp spikes that cut hard surface material. The basic difference in blades leads to a change in cutting methodology too. Usually, all knives cut food or other items based on the pressure exerted by the knife’s sharp edge blade. This sharp edge due to pressure cuts the intricated parts of the food. But some types of food or the cuttable material structure is very delicate or loose that a sharp edge enables to cut loose and hard both surfaces. Here comes a serrated knife to cut both extreme surfaces with the help of serrations on its edge.

Sharpening of a Serrated Knife:-

A different type of edge of a blade demands a different type of sharpening process. Here serrations are individually dealt with a file or some other tool to sharpen the edge. 

Different Sharpening Tools

How to sharpen serrated knives? A knife sharpener sharpens the knife’s edge. The market is messed with a number of sharpening tools. These tools come in different gradients with different sharpening procedures. Let's have a glance at some of the sharpening tools.

Whetstone or Sharpening Stone

Diamond Sharpener

Ceramic Sharpener

Electric/Motorised Sharpener

Honing Sharpener

Sharpening Mechanism

Sharpening Stone

A Sharpening stone surface is used to sharpen the knife edge by applying the edge of a knife at a particular angle. On getting friction from the surface of the stone at a particular angle the edge of a knife tapers down. This tapering process with the help of a sharpening stone thins the edge enough to be declared a sharp edge. 

Ceramic Sharpener

A ceramic sharpener has an abrasive part made of ceramic. These ceramic-made sharpeners are rough and tough. They have abrasions that cause sharpening of the edge of a blade when the abrasive part is rubbed at a specific angle against the edge. 

Electric/Motorized Sharpener

These Sharpeners are easy to use. They use a motor to rotate the belts and abrasive portion of the motorized or electric sharpener. This electric sharpener saves time and energy, thus enabling the user to sharpen the blade easily without facing any difficulty.

Honing Sharpener

These sharpeners are made up of steel. These honing sharpeners are steel rods. They remove the flesh from the blades. In addition to this, the blade’s sharp edge is realigned with the help of these steel rods. Thus it sharpens the edge of the blade without any wear and tear to the sharp edge of the blade. Other sharpening techniques cause a decay of the edge due to sharpeners’ hard contacting blade.

Diamond Sharpener

Diamond has been declared the hardest substance on the planet Earth. It is this hardness that enables diamonds to play the role of hardest abraser. So, the Diamond Sharpener is considered one of the best sharpeners.

Sharpening Mechanism of a knife

The Sharpening Mechanism is a compact system that enables the user to sharpen a knife with the help of this mechanism. The knife is placed at a certain part of the system. Later different movements are observed after applying kinetic circular energy. These movements sharpen the blade of the knife.

Sharpening of Serrated Knives

A serrated knife’s blade matches with a chef's knife blade. But it has a different blade. Its blade is in total contrast to a Chef’s blade. It has jag saw-like teeth to perform cutting or slicing of hard substances. For sharpening a serrated knife, we need a steel or ceramic rod.  We run this rod gently in each gullet with a small stroke. Before sharpening the serrated knife, we must determine the beveled side of the edge. A beveled side of the edge is a side that has a lower angle. We run the rod towards the spine of the blade until the serration gets sharpened.

Final Words

How to sharpen serrated knives? The sharpening of the serrated knife requires much energy and precision while applying this energy with the help of a file. This knife has teeth similar to Jag Saw’s teeth. For sharpening a serrated knife file is recommended as the best option. A file has a rugged surface all around it. To sharpen a serrated knife, the sharp spikes are treated with a file. A serrated knife cuts all types of food that is not cut by ordinary knives due to its hard surface.