Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This is the sharpener that finally got me to invest in a good knife sharpener. Every "automatic" sharpener like this, all the way to the $125 - $150 Chef's choice models (which I also own), make one fundamental error, which is they predetermine a set angle at which to sharpen a knife. They only have ONE angle when your knives all have very different cutting angles depending on the steel and purpose of the knife. The result is that this sharpener and all others like it, butcher up and ruin every knife that doesn't just happen to possess the exact same angle that they're created to sharpen. I ended up buying the KME knife sharpening system. Yes, it costs over $150 bucks and it takes more than 2 minutes to sharpen a knife - but nothing gives greater satisfaction than handing the chef in your house a perfectly sharp knife with an incredible edge that lasts. There are other good systems like the KME, including the Edge Pro, but after a couple of days watching various Youtube videos on a variety of these higher end systems, I went with the KME. When it comes to knife sharpening, quick and easy really does not work.