Sharpening to the ideal angle. Very sharp knives sharpen at about 10 dps (degrees per side) (which implies that the knife's edge has an included angle of 20-degrees). Generally speaking, razors, paring knives, and fillet knives should be the sharpest knives at an angle of 12° – 18°. Most kitchen knives, like utility/slicing knives, chef’s knives, boning knives, carving knives, should be sharpened to 15° – 25°. The exceptions are Japanese style knives that are usually sharpened to 14° – 16° depending on the knife maker. Japanese style knives utilize a much harder steel, and are therefore more brittle than their
Deba Prasad Das by which time Deb Das had already mastered the dance form of Odissi. The next move was to "Utkal Sangeet Mahavidyalaya", a school of dance music, where Das joined as a faculty member for Odissi in 1964. Here, he tutored Indrani Rahman a Bharatanatyam dancer at that time, whom he taught Odissi. and the association with Rahman brought Das into public notice when the Rahman took her guru along with her for concerts. In 1957, Indrani Rahman presented an Odissi demonstration choreographed by Deba Prasad Das at the Dance Festival and this performance is reported to have assisted Odissi to