What is musat and how to use it?
What is musat and how to use it?
Musat is a special tool for sharpening knives. In form it looks like a regular file, but the peculiarity of the musat is that its ribs are located along the blade strictly parallel to each other.
What is Moussat for?
A well sharpened kitchen knife is greatfacilitate the cooking process. The wrong tool for editing the blade is capable of "killing" the blade. Musat is easy to edit the blade before and after work. The tool aligns and removes the notches, scratches and potholes. Musat can be oval, round, square, rectangular or combined. But the edges of all models are located along the canvas. Most often, metal and glass are used for making musates. The handle is made of wood or plastic. The working cloth of the tool has a different length - 20-35 cm. The musat needs to 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 straightening. The ideal mousetate is polished to a mirror finish. Professional chefs will not use the tool if they do not see their reflection in it. Important nuance - the rod or tip of the musate should be magnetized so that the metal sawdust does not scatter and could not hurt you!How to use Musat
Edit the knife on the weight. Take the musat in the left hand, the knife that you are going to rule - into the right hand (for lefties it's the other way around). The section of the blade near the handle, put the cutting edge to the tip of the musat cloth with the cutting edge. Musat can be kept both vertically and horizontally. The blade of the knife should walk on the edges of the musate smoothly at an angle of 20-30 degrees. For each of the sides of the blade, 5-6 passes through the tool for straightening. The knife edge is adjusted. It is not convenient for everyone to keep tools on weight, in this case it is possible to put the tip of the moussat on the table, the cutting board or any other hard surface. Hold the knife more comfortable with your right hand. Musat slightly incline (the same angle of 20-30 degrees). The blade of the knife must pass along the entire length of the working surface of the musat. But when working with the stop, you need to make sure that the blade does not crash into the table. Important information about Moussat
Musat is used if the hardness of the knife bladeis 50-60 units. A softer steel tool spoils, and a harder one - "does not take". Musat does not form a cutting edge, it only removes scratches and jaggies that arise during the preparation of dishes. More serious editing of the blade should be carried out with stones and rods for sharpening, which can remove the layer of metal. There are combined models of musates, one side of which (with diamond crumb) serves to sharpen the blade, and the other - for straightening.
