Just realized I've sharpened my boning knife over 500 times in the last year...

Nancy Flores · 2026-04-05T20:30:06.05486+00:00

That number hit me while I was cleaning up tonight, and it made me think about how much muscle memory and wear that single tool takes on.

Five hundred times is more than once a day. That knife must be half its original size by now.

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But isn't sharpening just part of keeping a knife working right?

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What do you even cut that much?

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