Musat is a special tool for sharpening knives. In shape it looks like a regular file, but the peculiarity of the musat is that its ribs are located along the canvas strictly parallel to each other.
What is musat for?
A well-sharpened kitchen knife can greatly facilitate the cooking process. The wrong blade straightening tool can kill the blade.
Musat carry out easy editing of the blade before and after working with him. The tool aligns and removes nicks, scratches and potholes. Musat can be oval, round, square, rectangular or combined. But the ribs of all models are located along the canvas.
Most often, metal and glass are used to make garbage. The handle is made of wood or plastic. The working blade of the tool has a different length - 20-35 cm. Musat should be selected for a specific knife, since the length of the blade of the knife should be 5 cm less than the length of the blade for dressing.
Perfect musat polished to a mirror shine. Professional chefs will not use the tool unless they see it reflected in it.
An important nuance - the rod or tip of the garbage should be magnetized so that metal filings do not fly apart and cannot injure you!
How to use musat
Editing a knife by weight. Take the musat in your left hand, the knife you are going to edit into your right (for left-handed people the opposite is true). Attach the blade area near the handle to the tip of the musat cloth with the cutting edge facing you. Musat can be held both vertically and horizontally. The knife blade should walk along the edges of the musat smoothly at an angle of 20-30 degrees. For each side of the blade, 5-6 walks through the editing tool are enough.
Editing a knife with emphasis. It’s not convenient for everyone to hold tools on their weight; in this case, the tip of the garbage should be rested on a table, cutting board or any other hard surface. It is more convenient to hold the knife with your right hand. Musat slightly tilt (the same angle of 20-30 degrees). The blade of the knife should extend along the entire length of the working surface of the garbage. But when working with emphasis, you need to make sure that the blade does not hit the table.
