Work Sharp Electric Kitchen Knife Sharpener - Get knives ready for cookouts and BBQ's- Fits in Kitchen Drawer, Sharpens every time, fast & easy

This is great, and totally worth the money. The only knife sharpener I ever had before was a small whetstone. I had a bunch of kitchen knives that were in sad shape, all duller than an HR presentation. I read about this one on Wirecutter, and decided to give it a try. Good purchase.You plug it in, turn it on, and run your knives through a few times on each side. It only runs for a short amount of time, so you don't have to worry about overdoing it. Best of all, it actually works. Those knives are sharp now. You can remove part of it in order to make the openings larger, so that you can sharpen something thicker, such as scissors.Don't use ceramic blades on this.You can also sharpen serrated blades, though not in the same way as straight blades.The sharpening wheels are replaceable, which is great, meaning this is not disposable junk. You can also open it up to get the metal dust out from inside.If you want useful knives again, just buy this. There are supposedly better sharpeners, but they are way more expensive, and I'm not about to bring my blades to Chopped or anything, so I am good. You will be too.

Works great! Very sharp and easy to use.

Easy to use, very compact with built in cord & plug storage. Does a good job sharpening efficiently. Great replacement for manual sharpers. The only drawback is that you need to sharpen each side of the blade separately. This was a surprise but not a big deal.

I have now tried at least 6 different systems for sharpening knives and this is currently my method of choice. I wish I could choose the angle, but 20 degrees is fine for kitchen knives (and the scissor sharpening tool is an added benefit). It's quick at doing it too. Much quicker than manual methods. If you are an expert at using whetsones I don't think you'd be reading this review, so this product is not recommended for you. But if you want a relatively small, consistent, and quick device to sharpen knives to 20 degrees, I think you can stop looking for it.We'll see about its longevity. I've never used flexible abrasive disks before, so I'm hoping the last. I'd like to see an attachment to change the angle (but I think that's part of the e5 system) and maybe an option for different "grits" for the abrasive disks -- but then we would be adding complexity to a system whose main selling point IMO is to be simple.Would I use this to sharpen an heirloom knife? No. But I'm the kind of person who doesn't like babying my tools and if a knife lasts me 30 years instead of 40, I still think it's worth the ease of use and consistency I'm seeing from this little thing.At $50 and the quality I'd expect from a Work Sharp product, I think this is a good buy.

Once I actually read the instructions(!), this was easy to use and very effective. I took it to my son’s house and they were amazed at how much sharper their knives were. So glad to have a good sharpener.

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.

Sharpened all my kitchen knives day it arrived. Worked good and knives are sharp. Good purchase.

Didn’t sharpen the knife at all. I have this brand sharpener with interchangeable belts and I love it. Wanted something small and quick. This is not it.Very compact and quick to set up, wish it would also sharpen the knives