All knives need maintenance and proper care to serve you well for a long time. This, of course, also applies to Mikov knives. Storing knives in a dry and clean place to protect their blades is a given, as is regular maintenance with a sharpening steel.
A sharpening steel is a tool for maintaining the edge; it is not intended for sharpening knives. For that purpose, you can use a whetstone, for example , which Mikov also offers, and for which we’ve prepared a video tutorial. Alternatively, if you don’t feel confident sharpening your knives yourself, you can take advantage of the services of experts—for example, by bringing your knives to one of Mikov’s public events, where we offer this service to the public.
We most often see professional chefs and butchers using a sharpening steel; they run it along the blade almost every time before they start working with it. This corrects minor imperfections and damage to the knife caused by everyday cutting. Mikov offers its customers two types of sharpening steels— a round one and an oval one, which is included in the Mikov RUBY special kitchen knife set . You can also purchase the round sharpening steel in a luxurious rosewood finish .
Both Mikov sharpening steels have an optimal length of 25 cm and feature a unique hard chrome coating. Thanks to this, they are not only sufficiently hard but also abrasion-resistant and corrosion-resistant, which means one thing—they will serve you well for a long time.
We’ve also prepared video tutorials for maintaining your blade’s edge using a sharpening steel. You can find the video tutorial for the Mikov round sharpening steel here and for the Mikov RUBY oval sharpening steel here. We’ve also put together special promotional sets that include a sharpening steel along with the knives: the RUBY promotional set with a sharpening steel, the Butcher promotional set with a sharpening steel, and the Chef promotional set with a sharpening steel.