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WELL HONED

I sharpened my knives today.

They really needed it. Or, I really needed it.

I was beginning to saw through some meat with my boning knife. Not good.

I have used the same sharpener for almost twenty years now. I think I got it when we moved to Warren Avenue in Boston in 1988.

That is the year I started taking cooking more seriously than I had. There was a new kitchen with two ovens; one convection. I had a stove top grill and a big stainless refrigerator. I was at my culinary zenith.

I got a great set of knives and, at the same time, I got a Chef's Choice sharpener. I have seen no better in all the time I have owned it.

You cannot fuck it up. Well, I suppose you could but you would have to try.

Today, I am down to one oven again. No stainless refrigerator. Not even an outside grill.

My cuisine has gone from haute to kool. Tonight we are having hamburgers.

But I still use my Chef's Choice sharpener.