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A well balanced, well made, finely honed chef’s knife is not inexpensive. Yet, if you want a good, reliable cutting and slicing tool on hand for when needed, then spending a little more is probably well worth it in the long run. If, however, you want it to remain a good, reliable cutting and slicing tool, then you need to take care of it.
Part of that care includes proper storage. A knife block is a good idea, but if you don’t have a knife block you do not want to simply throw it into a cutlery drawer where that finely honed blade can be nicked or marked by the spoons, forks, other knives, or whatever else it hits and rubs up against while in that drawer.
Should that be the scenario you are facing, then a simple solution is at hand.
Take an empty milk or juice carton. Measure the blade size of you knife. Then cut from the carton a strip of cardboard at least twice as wide as that blade at its widest, and just a little bit longer. Fold the cardboard lengthwise. Tape it closed at the bottom, and along the one open side. Voila! You now have a knife sleeve.
It may not look all that attractive, but it will do the job for you. That job, of course, is protecting the knife blade. It will still require sharpening from time to time, but now that will only be due to the normal wear and tear of kitchen use. It will no longer be because you’ve inadvertantly damaged it in storage.