How to sharpen weird serrated Shun

[drrayeye]

I've bought two UU Shuns as gifts for family not especially interested in cooking knives--and they love them. For myself I got the Tojiro flash version as a sandwich knife that can take on most anything. It's a good way to start to learn how to use single bevel knives, since it only as an edge on one side.

 

[Jeff]

FYI SHUN has a lifetime free sharpening service.

 

[blokey]

FYI SHUN has a lifetime free sharpening service.

For the specific knife they don’t actually sharpen it they just hone it. (Whatever that actually means)

 

[mengwong]

Anyway, even honing of the outer edge should be fine … by the time the top of the scallops contact the food the cut has been well established anyway by the slicing movement. Nobody is push cutting with that thing.

 

[blokey]

Anyway, even honing of the outer edge should be fine … by the time the top of the scallops contact the food the cut has been well established anyway by the slicing movement. Nobody is push cutting with that thing.

You underestimate the will of a determined housewife.

 

[mengwong]

Ok, plan B, keep it in the honey jar. If you squint it kind of looks like this