You can easily and effectively sharpen your knives at home with a sharpening stone. Sharpening stones, also known as whetstones, are made from both natural and synthetic stones. When wet ...

While there are lots of knife sharpeners on the market to save you from such a fate, sharpening stones have been used for millennia with the earliest proof of them being used dating back 3.3m years.

Once you’ve achieved some decent edges and feel comfortable, however, using stones can be a sort of zen sharpening experience and they’re great if you have a lot of larger kitchen knives.

Draw the blade full length back to front across the stone, alternating sides with each pass until the blade is sharp. For a smaller, thinner sharpening stone, the process is roughly the same.