As bon notes, the magnetic strip is a good option.

Sean, Tom and I go a decidedly low-tech way of flattening paper towel rolls and sliding a chef's knife in there. (We don't have any good smaller knives.) For our other, we were pleased as punch to get it back from getting it sharpened with a little cardboard sleeve. Sadly, we've not gotten that again. So, cardboard casing, laid in drawer.

We have a honing steel, that looks like a little sword, and we (ideally) before every use, slide each side of the knife at about a 45% angle an equal number of times just to keep the blade in line. Do we do this every time? No, but we should. But we don't. We send them to be sharpened a couple times a year, usually mom and pop hardware stores can do that.

also, we covet a magnetic strip solution to our knife storage. Until then, stupid cardboard sleeves.

Let loose the metrosexuals of war!

Er, you did mean something like that, Kevin, yes?

Robert Blake.

That's right, I'm wrong.

The character was Tony Baretta. And to complicate things even more, the related series Toma starred Tony Musante.

We send them to be sharpened a couple times a year, usually mom and pop hardware stores can do that.

Right, because as Alton has said on more than one show, never buy any appliance that claims to sharpen knives, or attempt it yourself unless you've been trained. The former never work and the latter could be dangerous to your knives, your health or most likely both.

it's like 5-6 bucks to do both chef's knives.

Looking at ones in the city center near my work, as I'm a big metrosexual looser.

Nothing's looser than a metrosexual, that's for sure. Downtown Liverpool sophisticates on the prowl.

This is a sharpening steel / honing steel. It will not technically "sharpen" a dull knife, but it will put an edge back on one which is usually good enough.

And I know AB detests all home knife sharpeners and insists that knife-owners ONLY EVER let professional sharpeners sharpen things, but I choose to ignore him on this and use one of these.

I also keep my knives in the knife block that's built into my kitchen island. I'm such an AB heretic. t hangs head in shame

Right, because as Alton has said on more than one show, never buy any appliance that claims to sharpen knives, or attempt it yourself unless you've been trained. The former never work and the latter could be dangerous to your knives, your health or most likely both.

That's why I'll be returning this: [link] in order to pick up a honing steel.