removing a stain on VG10

J

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just the other day I used my Endura 4 on a steak during dinner. It cut through the meat and sinew with a smoothness that I suspect would have terrified sheeple LOL. Anyway, after the meal I washed the blade with dishwashing detergent and after drying I noticed that there's a faint stain near the tip, which was in contact with the steak. I used dishwashing detergent again and the stain is still there.

What can I used to remove stains like this? What caused this?
 
Sorry, I don't have any suggestions on removing the stain, but I do find it surprising that the VG10 stainless was stained by a steak.

I have several VG10 kitchen knives that are routinely in contact with a variety of meats, including steak, and I've never had a staining problem.

Any chance the blade had prior contact with a somewhat corrosive substance that may have compromised the steel to some degree, and then the steak juice stained that area of the blade?? (yes, I'm grasping at straws here)

Kevin
 
Maybe marinade or some other acidic substance caused it.

You could try one of those magic erasers you buy at the supermarket, or a miracle cloth. Theres always a risk that something you use to try and clean it could end up marking the blade even more as its likely to be mildly abrasive.
 
I tend to think of marks on the knives I use as character lines. Every stain, scratch, or ding just makes the knife more persoanl. I'd leave it.
 
with all due respect - I don't think that using VG10 blade on glass or porcelain is a very good idea. A small stain seems minor vs the damage that a hard ceramic surface could do to your knife's edge

I sometimes use a glass cheese platter because it's non-porous but I'll only set out <$5 cheese and paté knives
 
Thats strange. I have used vg-10 blades on all kinds of meat, cooked and uncooked. Wild game, apples, sliced lemons, and forgot to wipe off the blade. Never have I had one stain. I had a high carbon blade once that I did the same thing with. I cut a steak, and it stained. Polish only helped a little. I took it down to a jeweler friend of mine, who polished it with jewelers rouge on a buffing wheel. That did the trick.
 
I had a stain on my endura from steak too! haha But I was thinking it was the bbq sauce that did it. Anyway, brasso took it off. I'm sure flitz would work too.
 
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