WORK SHARPElectric Kitchen Knife Sharpener - Great gift idea for Father's Day - Fits in Kitchen Drawer, Sharpens All Kitchen Knives with ease

This changes the game for sharpening my knives. I like them sharp! I’ve used other sharpeners and have honed and oiled and etc! This is so easy and superior. So far, love it! It also did a nice job with a couple of pairs of scissors.

Gave this to my son for his birthday. He asked for it and loves it. Said it does the job and easy to store in kitchen drawer.

This item was the economy alternative in a recent NYT Wirecutter piece. I found it sharpened dull knives quickly enough (5-7 cycles of grinding), and touched up less dull items in one or two cycles. The finish on the sharpened surface, even after honing, is pretty rough. Not what I would tolerate on my woodworking tools. However, we have good, not high-end cutlery and do not fancy ourselves chefs. Paying $250+ for a professional sharpener is overkill for most people I'd guess. The quality of the unit is OK. I expect it will last 5 years sharpening maybe 20 knives per year. The grinding disks tend to flex, so a light touch is best. If I decide I want a better edge, I'll teach myself to sharpen on waterstones.

I got.one for my mom after she tried mine. She said it was very simple to use and made the knives really sharp.

It’s flawless for knife sharpening no matter your skill level. Definitely purchase it for all ages and levels.

I transitioned to this product after many years of sharpening my kitchen knives using Japanese whetstones. The whetstone method produces fantastic results, unbeatable really, but is extremely time consuming if done properly (~30m a knife); also, and I speak here from experience, you _will_ experience an impressive finger injury at some point if you do not have proper technique or are not paying attention.So, I settled on the Worksharp E2 based on reviews; it seemed like the best of the "cheap" sharpeners. At $38 from Amazon Warehouse Deals I think it's a good value for the money. I agree with others that the machine seems well engineered, especially for this price category. The results are okay -- not spectacular, but fine for day-to-day use. My knives are definitely sharper. They cut into vegetables and fruit with relative ease, and do an okay job with meat as well. The supplied guide is okay, but not great. There is only one angle, meaning you are somewhat out of luck if you own both western and eastern kitchen knives. The "scissors guide" accesses by removing the knife guide is slightly larger the the tip of my pinky finger and totally worthless -- attempting to sharpen scissors on this machine resulted in something akin to a pair of conjoined butter knives.My favorite party trick with my whetstone-honed knives was surgically bisecting a paper towel. That sort of thing is not going to happen with knives sharpened by this (or any other cheap machine). To get a truly honed edge -- burr, followed by polishing, leading to a mirror finish -- you'd want to successively grind at finer and finer grits, and as far as I can tell, that is not an option using the E2. You could do that using the much more expensive E4 sharpener (https://www.amazon.com/Work-Sharp-Culinary-Kitchen-Sharpener/dp/B07KWWN1MV/ref=pd_rhf_ee_s_cr_simh_0_2/137-6745790-1389266?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B07KWWN1MV&pd_rd_r=bfe8a789-7244-419a-8229-f6c02371062b&pd_rd_w=yPK7y&pd_rd_wg=F4htQ&pf_rd_p=67aa5820-8762-4202-90ba-881bb99c913c&pf_rd_r=0E755WT7X6E41B73T9N8&psc=1&refRID=0E755WT7X6E41B73T9N8) plus upgrade kit (https://www.amazon.com/Work-Sharp-Culinary-CPAC004-Multicolor/dp/B074JJ849Q/ref=pd_rhf_ee_s_cr_simh_0_3/137-6745790-1389266?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B074JJ849Q&pd_rd_r=bfe8a789-7244-419a-8229-f6c02371062b&pd_rd_w=yPK7y&pd_rd_wg=F4htQ&pf_rd_p=67aa5820-8762-4202-90ba-881bb99c913c&pf_rd_r=0E755WT7X6E41B73T9N8&psc=1&refRID=0E755WT7X6E41B73T9N8), but the combined price of those items is roughly five times what I paid for this machine.

This unit works very well. Put nice edges on all my kitchen knives

It did a decent job