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Broke my favorite chef knife tip last Saturday prepping squash and had to drop $45 on a resharpening at a shop downtown.
Was rushing through a butternut squash for a special and torqued the tip off right above the bolster - has anyone else had their knife repaired only to feel like it never cuts quite the same afterward?
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drewsullivan18d ago
My buddy Jake snapped the tip off his Wusthof Santoku doing the exact same thing - butternut squash is no joke lol. He paid $40 to get it reground at some place in Portland and swore the edge just didn't hold the same bite afterward. Ended up buying a new one a month later because he said it felt like cutting with a slightly duller knife no matter how much he sharpened it.
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Start by saying butternut squash is clearly the final boss of home kitchen knives (seriously, I think it's sentient and hates us). My own chef's knife went through something similar last fall, and @drewsullivan's buddy Jake basically lived out my nightmare. I got the tip reshaped on my old 8-inch Wusthof for $50, and now it feels like the blade has a weird little stutter when I slice through onions or garlic. Makes me wonder if the shop just ground off too much metal and ruined the geometry, you know? Bet Jake's new knife cuts like a dream compared to that Franken-blade.
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