It's time to dust off that strange metal tool that's tucked into the center of your knife block. If this contraption is unfamiliar to you, it's called a honing rod, and it's not too hard to use.

You can fix these small issues by honing your knives regularly with a honing rod or similar. Honing is a process that re-straightens the edge of your knife, bringing it back to sharpness without ...

Honing is a process where you realign the edge of the blade by dragging your knife from heel to tip across a long, sturdy rod called a honing steel. It does not actually sharpen the knife ...

The easiest way to find the angle without a protractor is to hold the knife at a 90-degree angle to the rod, as if you were about to cut the honing steel in half. Then move the spine of the knife ...

There are lots of tools for knife maintenance -- I'm sure you're all familiar with the honing rod and knife sharpening stone or whetstone -- but I wanted the knife sharpening process to be a ...