We cover everything from paring and chef knives to butchering sets in Japanese and German styles. We also throw in steak and cheese knives for good measure. Come find suggestions and full reviews on professional-level cutlery for whatever chef condescends to browse around here, or more budget-friendly kitchen knives for the home cook desperately searching for the best knife set to help them get prepared for holiday meals.
We aren’t what you’d call professional cooks, but we do know some and most of the knives we write about and recommend we have tested extensively ourselves. When we review professional knives we draft a chef to help out. Fortunately for us most chefs love to test new knives almost as much as they like to offer opinions.
There are some expensive brands in here like Shun and Wusthof, and some significantly cheaper brands like Victorinox, and we say mostly helpful things about all of it, if you care to listen to a couple idiots who haven’t starved to death and still have all their fingers. talk about kitchen knives.
A Good Budget K Tip Kitchen Knife from a Fresh EDC Company I like Vosteed quite a bit. The owners have a good long history in the knife world, and they seem to design their products with an enthusiast’s eye. But I was skeptical about them making a decent chef’s knife. Something about a K-tip …
Tactile’s Knife Company’s First Kitchen Knife Missed on Design, but the Manufacturing is on Point Tactile Knife Co. have proven themselves pretty soundly in the EDC world with their pens and their recent steps into the folding knife world. So we had high expectations for this santoku. Maybe higher than is reasonable to have for …
The Euroline Essential Collection is the Budget Side of Bob Kramer: Great for Arthritis, and a Challenge for the Small Handed This knife has been out a long time, so there’s already been a lot of discussion about it. There was already too much discussion about the Bob Kramer / Zwilling team up before the …
Here are a Few Great Camp Cooking Knives that have their Place at the Campfire Good food needs good tools, even if it isn’t in the kitchen. The older we get the more we find we need good food on our camping trips, so we put together this list of our favorite outdoor-friendly knives to …
A Large Kitchen Knife Set With a Small Price Tag and a Confusing Moniker It seems like there is a new kitchen cutlery company popping up on a weekly basis these days. I quit trying to keep track of them a long time ago. Most of the new cutlery startups disappear in a year or …
It’s Heavy, but It Has a Good Western Blade and a Cool Handle The main idea behind the TC chef’s knife concept was to create something that feels thin but still has the toughness of a western style kitchen knife. It’s definitely tough, but I’m personally at odds with the way it feels. The handle …
This is a Thorough Look at Every Kitchen Cutlery Series and Knife Set Zwilling Makes Right Now Zwilling is the other staple of German kitchen knives. They feel like the Pepsi to Wusthof’s Coca Cola. Or maybe it’s the other way around. I can never remember which one is more popular these days. The point …
A Tough Capable Chef Knife That Almost Lives Up To The Marketing Hype Direct to consumer knife company marketing tends to be fairly hyperbolic. I assume this is because they can not depend on the promotional efforts of their resellers, so they really talk the knives up in the limited marketing real-estate available to them. …
This is the Closest Thing We Have to a True American Style Kitchen Knife It makes a weird kind of thematic sense to make a bowie chef knife, because there’s so much debate about where the original design came from, and whether it was intended for fighting or hunting, or even intended to be useful …
Dalstrong’s Sort of Japanese Style Western Chef Knife Is A Good Option For Home Cooks There’s a lot of flash in this knife: It has a fancy looking pin in the handle, the Damascus blade has a mirror polish and a hammer finish, there’s a big Dalstrong logo etched into the butt of the handle, …
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