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Chef's Choice Professional Sharpening Station 130
- Sharpens quickly and quietly
- Can sharpen serrated knives
- Spring guides keep knives at the correct angle
- Includes sharpening-steel slot
- Expensive
- Can scratch knives
- Has a learning curve
Experts and owners of the Chef's Choice 130 agree: It's an excellent, if expensive, electric knife sharpener. The Chef's Choice 130 operates quietly and sharpens knives in less than half the time as the less-expensive Chef's Choice 110 (*Est. $85). Reviews say that the Chef's Choice 130's spring guides hold angles better than the cheaper 110's magnetic guides. Another major upgrade is a non-motorized slot that serves as a sharpening steel. The Chef's Choice 130 isn't cheap, and it does have the potential to scratch knives and remove too much metal.
The Chef's Choice 130 Professional Sharpening Station is tested and compared with other electric knife sharpeners at Cook's Illustrated magazine, and it gets a plug at ConsumerGuide.com. You can read what owners have to say at Amazon.com and Cooking.com.
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Our Sources
1. Cook's Illustrated MagazineDetails/Subscribe
Rigorous testing is the rule at Cook's Illustrated, and this article is no exception. Testers evaluate each sharpener on its ease of use and the quality of the resulting sharpened blade.
Review: Do Electric Knife Sharpeners Really Work?, Editors of Cook's Illustrated, Nov. 2006
Although it's hard to tell how extensively knife sharpeners were tested, editors at Consumer Guide recommend the Chef's Choice 130 despite the fact that its overall rating is only average.
Review: Chef's Choice Professional Sharpening Station 130, Editors of ConsumerGuide.com
3. Amazon.com
More than 180 owners have written reviews of the Chef's Choice 130. Most give it a perfect score. A few detractors say that it scratched their knives or that they had trouble using it.
Review: Chef's Choice Pro Sharpening Station 130, Contributors to Amazon.com
4. Cooking.com
There are only a handful of reviews here for the Chef's Choice 130. All are positive. One owner says the instructions need improvement, a complaint we read elsewhere.
Review: Chef's Choice Professional Sharpening Station Reviews, Contributors to Cooking.com
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