Mundial 3311-10 10-Inch Sharpening Steel, Black

Mundial 3311-10 10-Inch Sharpening Steel, Black Review

Mundial 3311-10 10-Inch Sharpening Steel, Black Feature

• Diamond Steel
• Diamond sharpening Steel
• Can put an edge on a knife that butcher Steels can not
• Plastic handle with ring
• 10-inch Diamond Steel

Knife steels are often touted as sharpening tools: few actually sharpen, but they do perform the vital task of realigning a knife's edge, which gets bent through contact with cutting surfaces or other hard objects. Mundial's steel contains diamond dust, so it's hard enough to partially sharpen blades, though it won't replace a professional sharpening job, which proceeds from coarse to ever-finer grinding at tightly controlled angles. This steel performs only the final grinding, during which an edge is polished. Thus, properly used, it can lengthen the intervals between sharpenings better than a steel without diamond dust. Since a steel should be at least as long as the knife blade being drawn across it, this steel's length is fine for most household knives, and its oval shape exposes more surface to blades. --Fred Brack Mundial's 5500 Series is a line cutlery specifically designed for the food processing industry. All 5500 Series knives and accessories are NSF approved, meeting all foodservice industry standards for sanitation. 5500 Series knives and accessories also have Sanitized Antimicrobial Protection, which is the safe treatment of the polypropylene handles to guard against the growth of bacteria, yeast, mold and fungi.