Price: $168.96
(as of Nov 12, 2024 20:48:10 UTC - Details)

The 15XV 3-stage professional knife sharpener is the ideal solution for 15-degree class knives. Using 100 percent diamonds, the hardest natural substance on earth, our patented abrasives sharpen edges faster and easier. This straight-edge and serrated knife sharpener improves cutting performance by creating 3 distinct facets set at different angles to form a longer lasting, ultra-sharp edge. The first stage sharpens straight-edge knives using medium abrasives, while the second stage uses finer abrasives to hone the knife edge. In the final stage, patented stropping disks create an unparalleled polished finish. Precision angle guides ensure accurate sharpening throughout the entire blade length and eliminate any guesswork. In addition, this sharpener can easily convert a traditional 20-degree knife edge to more precise 15-degree edge. This unit is designed to work with both straight-edge and serrated knives.
CONVERT YOUR KNIVES: Ideal for converting traditional 20-degree factory edges of household knives into high performance Trizor XV 15-degree edges
DIAMONDS: Advanced stropping stage and 100 percent diamond abrasives for sharpening straight edge and serrated blades. Noise is between 65 dB and 75 dB
EASY TO USE: Advanced, patented flexible spring guides for automatic adjustment and accurate control of the sharpening angle and feature simple on/off switch
THREE STAGES: 3-Stage EdgeSelect sharpening system for optimum versatility in providing the perfect edge for each cutting task. Stages 1 and 2 are plated with 100-percent diamond abrasives to sharpen and hone the edge and stage 3 uses a patented flexible abrasive system to polish and help prolong the life of serrated knives
RAZOR SHARP: The 15 Trizor XV combines the strength and durability of the Trizor edge with the flawless, ultra-sharp 15-degree XV technology. Time Required to sharpen is approximately 1 minute for first time sharpening and resharpening is approximately 10 seconds
Reviewer: E. Minnick
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: So easy and effective
Review: I have expensive knives that only needed sharpening and this sharpener is worth every cent. I read the instructions first and couldn’t believe it would be that easy to operate. They suggested just running the blade through BEFORE you even turn it on, just to feel how the weight of the knife will feel with a complete pass through. Great idea which I did and it helped with my apprehension of not wanting to ruin my knife. I did the minimum through passes that resulted in a precision sharp blade for a paper thin slice of tomato. As with any knife, please protect your blade (and yourself) in purchasing a sturdy knife guard that I always purchase even when gifting a knife. I did not think this is overly loud and it stayed secure on the counter when using. I have my sharpener on the counter for now to sharpen the rest of my knives as needed. It is a very clean looking sharpener that works perfectly. I Should have purchased this a long time ago. Looks like someone I know will be getting one for Christmas too.

Reviewer: Bangkok Bill
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Possibly the best purchase you'll ever make
Review: If you own lots of expensive knives, you need this machine. The more you own, the more you need it. If you have invested a decent amount of money in knives, it's a good bet you did that not just for how nice they look, but for how sharp they are.Consider how much their value diminishes with a dull or even slightly dull edge. Most people don't even know what sharp is. After the initial factory edge wares off, they never feel that super clean slice of a tomato again. That's why some people buy serrated knives, to cut tomatoes. That's crazy because serrated knives really don't cut well and a razor sharp knife does, they just can't get back to that razor sharp edge, not on their own. No matter how much I tried, I could never duplicate that factory fresh edge for myself. I didn't have the skill to pull it off, even if I had all the tools for sharpening, the steel, the crock sticks, the wet stones, I tried but failed to shave hair with my kitchen knives.That was until I bought my first Chef'sChoice model 120. Instantly I became an expert sharpener and found myself offering to sharpen any of my friends and family's knives too because I hated seeing them struggle with dull knives. If you cook, and you like quality gear, like sharp knives, then you have a real treat coming.This is one of the best things you will ever buy. It's half the price of one good knife but it will keep all your knives razor sharp.Once you have the shape of the edge down with the first wheel or two, all you need is the last wheel on the right to touch it up once in awhile and from then on, that's probably the only wheel you will need to use on your knife. Good knives only need sharpening once or twice a year. The key is using a great quality blade with a decent cutting board like wood or soft plastic and stay away from cutting into bones except with your one and only boning knife. Fish bones are no big deal but the other types can mess up a nice edge fast. Also, keep the uneducated away from expensive, sharp knives, give them something else to use. This is very important because it only takes about 3 seconds to ruin the edge on a good blade.I have owned the Chef'sChoice model 120 for about 12 years and love it. I bought this 15 Trizor XV for my Japanese knives. They come with a 16 degree edge so this model is better for them. I have changed all my kitchen knives over to 15 degrees now and I like it even better than the original 20-22 degree German edge. It makes a big, very noticeable difference when slicing just about everything. I keep my folding pocket knives at 20 degrees because they need to hold up to much tuffer chores working outdoors.Some people claim that a machine like this can't produce the ultimate sharpness of large Japanese wet stones and 15-30 minutes of sharpening. That may be true. It's a totally different approach to the task at hand. I believe I can get a more perfect, slightly sharper edge if I took 30 minutes per blade and slowly stroked the edge to sheer perfection of wet stone treatment. Sometimes, when I have nothing to do, I still like to play around with wet stones but 99% of the time, I don't find it worth it. I can get such a sharp edge in about 5 seconds with the Chef'sChoice machines that it's not even close to deciding witch system I'll use almost all the time. Comparing the two very different techniques is comparing apples to oranges. One way is results in a near perfect edge in less then 10 seconds and the other maybe gets you a slightly sharper edge but maybe not, but it will take several minutes maybe 15 or more to get similar results as I can get with the Chef'sChoice system.Don't listen to reviews that say this will ruin you blades. It won't. No more than any system will. It's all up to you. Do you want to read the manual for five minutes so you learn how to use this thing or just wing it. It has the power and the discs to destroy a blade in seconds if you don't know what you are doing. But, It's so easy, a child can use this thing. You just need to take a minute at first so you know exactly what to do. Practice with cheap knives first and get your skill level up to the job. Once you do that, your good forever but like anything, if you want to pay attention and get really good at it, you can always improve what you're doing.Once you have your edge right, the only disc you need to use is the last one on the right. It is like super fine, basically polishing the edge to super sharpness. It's almost all I ever use and if you wanted to, you could run you very best knives through that last disc every day, without any significant ware to your blade.Knife sharpening is mostly about consistent angle and nothing provides fast sharpening with a consistent angle than Chef'sChoice.I told you it will be the best thing you ever bought. That applies only if you really, really care about quality gear, sharp knives and the ability to always have razor sharpness to your expensive knives. Once you learn how to use this, and it won't take but a few minutes, you'll love it. The more quality knives you own, the more you will appreciate a device like this. It's so easy and so fast, the price is like nothing because it will restore all your expensive blades and probably outlast you. My first model 120 is right here working fine after a dozen years, but this new 15 Trizor is even better, faster and it's the exact same price I paid over a decade ago for my 120.Good luck.

Reviewer: Bob K
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Works really well
Review: Sharpened my old German knives to a razor sharp finish. Instructions are clear and easy to follow. I highly recommend this product.

Reviewer: Lostafinga
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Still working great
Review: Had this chefs choice 15XV for a while now. Really gets the knives sharp, like super sharp. Only slight complaint is that one side of the main sharpener seems to engage the knives a bit more then the other, I can hear it. Sounds like the blade doesn't contact as well as the other side. But the knives get super sharp and look ok so I don't mind.

Reviewer: home user
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Just what I needed.
Review: I am not a chef. I am not a knife connoisseur. I am just a regular guy that loves to cook, have a half dozen knives and like to keep them sharp. My lot consists of a Victorinox Santoku (my most expensive one), a Chicago Cutlery chefs knife that I love because it was mi first knife and it has a very comfortable wooden handle, a serrated bread one probably from Bed bath anb beyond, a smaller IKEA 5" chefs knife for my kids because it is perfect size for their hands and a couple 3" and 4" paring knives I got from my mother in law that have no brand and look very proletariat.Really, that is all the knives I need. I never felt the need for any expensive knives as the ones I have were great...when they were sharp.I do have a steel I use before using the knives, but they were not near where they should have been.I have used flat stones. Found it difficult to keep the angle of the knife consistent and I never got decent results.Searched for a better method and came across the Spyderco system. Got that as it seemed simpler since the angle issue was taking care of. I got better results, but still, not extremely sharp. Looked at videos to see what I was doing wrong, but still could not get good results. Then I read about the Trizor XV in Cooks Illustrated and I thought, hmmm, this looks like the thing for me.So, it arrived today and I spent no time in getting to work on my knives. Love the heft of the apparatus, the functional, yet industrial design and best of all that it did not require me to take lessons from a Nepalese monk on some forsaken mountain on the third full moon of a leap year surrounded by happy goats and a couple oxen to get my knives sharp!Man, this thing simply just works. My knives got REALLY sharp. I was able to find the infamous burr (which I never got with the other methods, even after lighting a few candles to the knife goddess). The directions are simple, the operation is simple, the knives get sharp. What else do any of us mere mortals need? I got some grapes (no tomatoes on hand) that were a bit too soft and was able to cut veeeeeery thin slices without applying any pressure, simply by the weight of the knife.I am sure all the other methods out there are great and do an amazing job, they just don't work for me. As much as I would like to sit in my porch, a piece of straw sticking from my mouth while my hands massage my knife along a stone telling some punk kid in my best Australian accent "that is not a knife, this is a knife!" the reality is that between band practice, basketball practice, dance, Boy Scouts and all the other crap my kids get to do, I just need something a normal human can use and get awesome results in a sort amount of time.If that is you, you should get this thing. It really works very well. The noise is just a humming sound and not loud at all, then again my son is a drummer and I think that is fine too, so. But really, fairly quiet.Just pull on the left, then the right side. After a few times,12 in my first knife, I was able to feel the damn burr. Then unto stage 2, same thing, then stropping stage and voila, damn sharp knife!Like all of you normal people, I was worried about all those comments the master sharpening people out there make about how much steel this things remove. Well, let me tell you that after doing 6 knives, the amount of shavings captured by the magnet were enough to build me a small steel cottage in the country. Seriously now, there were shavings, but what can I say, it will probably take a lifetime of sharpening to make it noticeable on the knives.So take it from this middle age family man and stop wondering if you should get this mechanical, uncomplicated wonder and just do it. You won't be disappointed.

Reviewer: PEBBLYPOO
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Aside from eyeballing which slot does what it’s basically logically set up and just go through the sequence for the sharpening steps. I like to buy $2.99 cheap all purpose knives from superstore and other little grocers and normally once I kill the knife (using it as scissors to cut packages open or like chopping frozen chicken breasts etc…. ) just usually get a new knife 🤣 well I ran my cheapo knives through this and it’s better than when I bought the knives. I had a blast sharpening every knife in the knife block and yep no mess of shavings on the counters. And unplugged and put away. Just like that. 20+ knives. Sharpened. Took about 10 mins.Now. The machine did cost a pretty penny… so. Barring it breaking down… this sharpener will pay itself off in about 10 years 😂based on the cost and frequency I was buying cheap knives. Fingers crossed 🤞 it lasts that long.PS: it wasn’t very loud. But i actually didn’t expect it to have sound when I got it. But it wasn’t startling. Best to turn on. Hear it. And then turn off. Practice run the knives into the slot to get idea pressure and angle to hold it. Yep. Not hard.

Reviewer: Fernando
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Honestamente intenté con la piedra y no pude! Por lo que decidí intentar con este aparatito y vaya que me ha dejado sorprendido! Ya afilé 3 cuchillos en menos de 10 minutos! Me tardé xq no tenían filo y según yo xq la máquina corrige el ángulo del filo… ahora mis cuchillos están afilados! Lo que no hay que dejar pasar, es limpiar el imán de la parte posterior del aparato, ya que si genera mucha rebaba metálica!

Reviewer: Frank Schouten
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Makkelijk alle type en soorten messen slijpen en ze worden bloed scherp pas dus goed op na het slijpen. Een kind kan de was doen. Eindelijk al je keuken messen scherp zoals het moet veel makkelijker bij al het snijwerk

Reviewer: Daniel
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Muy bueno

Reviewer: Wolfgang
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Super Gerät, Messer werden extrem scharf geschliffen.