and today I'm gonna be showing you the

Wusthof PEtec Electric Knife Sharpener.

(soft whooshing)

This sharpener, which is manufactured by Chef's Choice,

the industry leader in electronic knife sharpeners,

uses Wusthof's Precision Edge Technology, or PEtec,

to keep your Wusthof knives sharpened to factory specs.

The Wusthof Factory PETec system uses laser-aligned

sharpeners to set a 14 degree blade angle.

A typical home sharpener set either a 20 degree

or 15 degree angle, meaning it's not aligned

with your blade's original angle.

But finally, there's an electric sharpener

that takes care of that.

This sharpener has three stages.

Now let's run down each stage as I resharpen

my Wusthof Classic 8-inch Chef's Knife.

The first stage is a coarse diamond grit

that sets a new edge on your knife.

This is a fairly powerful stage and you will likely

only need to use it to set an edge once or twice a year,

depending on how frequently you use your knives.

One thing to note is the PEtec sharpener

sharpens one side at a time,

so a single pass will take two pulls of the knife.

As you sharpen, you don't need to put any pressure

on the knife itself.

Let the knife's weight guide you as you pull steadily

through the sharpener.

To set an edge, you only need to pull through

three full passes, or six times total.

Now we'll move to the second stage, which uses a fine

diamond grit that will start cleaning up the burrs,

honing and refining it to a razor sharp edge.

This stage only requires two full passes

to clean up your new edge.

Finally, the third stage is a specialized stropping wheel

that polishes and removes those final small burrs.

Three passes through this section, and your knife is

set back to a perfect 14 degree factory edge.

Now the great thing about this sharpener is that you don't

always have to go through all three sections.

To maintain a nice blade, pull it through

the stropping section three times on each side.

And when that isn't working, step back to the second

section, pull it through two passes,

then go back through the third section three times.

And on those rare occasions when you need

to set a new edge, start at the first section

and take the knife all the way through as shown.

One final thing to note about this sharpener is that we

use it on all of our knives here in our teaching kitchen.

Now since the first stage is so coarse, we're able to set

our workhorse Victorinox knives to a 14 degree angle,

and we can maintain all of our knives

with this one single unit.

This means that no matter what kind of knives you own,

you can set 'em to a single angle

and maintain them with ease.

If you have any questions about this knife

or any of the other cutlery that we carry,

do not hesitate to get in touch with our team.

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