Product Description

Chef'sChoice Edgecraft 120 Electric 3 - stage Sharpener offers FAST, FOOLPROOF results! 100% diamond abrasives in stages 1 and 2, combined with the unique stropping and polishing in stage 3 means hairsplitting results and highly durable edges. The EdgeSelect gives you the choice of optimum edges for gourmet, butcher, sporting and even serrated knives. A cut above the rest! Order yours today! ChefsChoice Edgecraft 120 Electric 3-stage Sharpener

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2389 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Color: White
• Brand: Chef's Choice
• Model: 120
• Dimensions: 4.60 pounds

Features

• Three-stage precision sharpening
• Works for gourmet chef's knives, butcher knives, sporting knives, serrated knives
• 100 percent diamond abrasive will never detemper
• Unique Trizor-Plus edge provides greater sharpness and durability
• Three-year household warranty

Amazon.com Review
It may seem like a contradiction, but sharp knives are the safest. With a clean edge, a knife is more predictable and easier to control. If you've purchased a top-of-the-line knife, maintaining the quality of the blade ensures maximum value from your investment. This Chef's Choice knife sharpener performs professional-quality sharpening on any knife, from gourmet knives to hunting knives--even serrated knives can be sharpened with this machine. For top-quality edges, there are two sharpening and honing stages, which use 100 percent diamond abrasives, and a final polishing stage. Each stage uses precision angle guides to create a unique Trizor-Plus edge for maximum sharpness and durability, while a magnetic pad collects residue so the machine is easy to clean and maintain. While a sharp knife is indeed a safe knife, it's wise to use caution with your newly sharpened knives, as they'll be sharper than you expect. --Laura Cuthbert

From the Manufacturer

For all fine-edge knives, and even serrated knives (as demonstrated in the image), the Chef's Choice 120 three-stage diamond hone professional sharpener lets you select the edge to match the need. It allows you to enjoy incredibly sharp edges that stay sharp longer for all knives. And the Chef's Choice 120 is easy to use and lightning fast.

For Gourmet Knives Edges for the ultimate in effortless food preparation and presentation Ultra-sharp, smooth, nonserrated edges produced by unique stropping and polishing disk of stage 3 Safe for quality cutlery For Butcher-Type Knives Select the right edge "bite" for fibrous foods Edges stay sharp longer, even under the most challenging cutting tasks No job too tough for the Trizor-Plus edge

For Sporting/Hunting Knives There's never been a better edge for field-dressing game or filleting fish Multi-beveled edges with micro-fluted facets stay sharp much longer Perfect edges for woodworking, paper products, carpets, and more For Serrated Knives Reshapes and realigns distorted teeth Sharpens and polishes each serrated tooth Better-than-factory performance

The Three Stages

Stage 1
Use for excessively dull or damaged knives or for maximum edge "bite." Diamond abrasives create first facet.

Stage 2
Use for routine sharpening. Finer-grit diamonds create a second bevel.

Stage 3
Patented material creates third micro bevel, and polished micro-flute cutters along the super-sharp edge.

Features

• For straight-edge and serrated blades
• Leaves incredibly sharp edges--better than razor sharp
• Leaves durable, longer-lasting edges
• Unbelievably fast
• EdgeSelect with Trizor-Plus system provides optimum edges for gourmet, butcher, sporting, and serrated knives
• 100 percent diamond abrasive--guaranteed to never detemper
• Totally safe for quality knives
• Three-stage sharpening procedure covers all knife needs
• Unique stropping and polishing stage
• Three-year household warranty
• Measures 9-3/4 inches by 4 inches by 4-1/4 inches

Customer Reviews

Stirring Sharpener Story
I've read the reviews both good and bad on this sharpener and for the life of me could not reconcile the two. So, based on the majority of the reviews being good, I bought it here from Amazon.

The end result, the sharpener is quite good, but the manual is somewhat misleading and if you follow the instructions in the manual exactly, it will not produce the results that you want. I read and re-read the manual before sharpening, did a practice test run before putting the knives through, so imagine my surprise when my Henckels Four Stars were not sharpening. However, when I passed a crummy little dinged up OXO knife through, it was sharpened as if it were brand new. So apparently, the sharpener was doing something, but I couldn't figure out how to get the OXO results on the Henckels knives.

Then I referred back to that wonderful Cook's Illustrated review which gave this sharpener a Highly Recommended rating. For those of you who don't know, Cooks Illustrated does not accept advertising and generally has pretty objective reviews of the products it tests. Cooks Illustrated said they passed their knives through 15 times before they became sharp. So that's what I did. 15 times, each knife. And then I sharpened them on a separate sharpening steel, per the instructions of Alton Brown (of Food Network fame).

The result, exceptionally sharp knives. Exceptionally. This product, when used in that manner, will produce very very sharp knives. Also, with what a professional knife sharpener charges, if you have several knives, like we do, after a few uses, this sharpener will pay for itself.

Why four stars then? The confusion caused by the unclear manual was somewhat frustrating. For this kind of money, this model should have a sharpening steel on it in addition to the motorized stage 2 sharpening wheel. Not perfect, but works very well.

Easy and quick sharpener
I used to sharpen my knives with many different hand sharpening tools. They would do a good job on them, but they always took planning and a fair amount of work. That led to knives not getting sharpened nearly as often as they should have. I finally got tired of dull knives and got this.

At first I thought I would just sharpen my cheaper knives with it and do the better ones the old way. I found out it does a very good job on all knives and haven't sharpened any knife with anything else for a very long time. It's quick and does a very good job of sharpening. What more could you ask for.

Highly recommended!

Scratches blades!
I purchased this model based on the positive reviews here, and the recommendation from Cook's Illustrated, but I haven't had the same positive experience. It puts long fine scratches on the sides of the blades. I know it's just cosmetic, but I just can't subject my Wusthofs to it. I rated it 1 star, because hopefully it will get the attention of people for whom this might be a determining factor in their purchasing decision. Most of the reviews don't mention this problem, and many of the reviews that mention it, still have a high rating, so it may be overlooked by someone looking for critical feedback.

There are also a couple of other negatives that I found with this model. Depending on the knife, it can be difficult to draw it through the guides and feel the correct pressure, so getting a nice even edge can be difficult at times. Also, you can't sharpen the blade right up to the bolster due to the shape of the guides. One last caveat, this model will not sharpen Santoku knives to the standard of 17 degrees, which is sharper than the German standard on which this model is based. To be fair, it does a decent job of sharpening your average knife, and I will still use it on my cheap knives, but if I had it to do over, I would not have purchased this model (especially considering the price).