10 Mistakes That Ruin Your Knife Edge
A sharp knife feels like cheating, until the day it doesn’t. One week you’re slicing tomatoes with almost no pressure, the next you’re sawing through them and wondering what changed. Most of the time, it’s not your knife going dull in some mysterious way. It’s technique, maintenance habits, and a few subtle decisions that quietly grind away the sharpest part of the edge. I’ve ruined edges in every imaginable way. Some were sloppy habits I repeated for months, others were