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.
So Now There’s a Good 8 Inch Chef Knife that Cuts like a Good Skinning Knife I don’t think anyone was on the edge of their seats for Buck to start making kitchen cutlery, but they did it anyway, and they actually did a pretty chef knife. There are a lot of things different about …
This is a German Chef Knife In Shape And Function, But Born And Bred On US Soil. Lamson is a Massachusetts based company that’s been making knives and tools since around the mid 19th century. They’ve pulled in their focus over the centuries from frontier equipment to kitchen cutlery, and the kitchen knife world is …
A Reliable Western Kitchen Knife on the Lighter Side In the world of mid range chef knives, the Zwilling Professional S doesn’t exactly stand out in looks. It doesn’t even have shocking performance for anyone who’s used a Wusthof or a Shun. But it does offer a great combination of long-lasting functionality, easy maintenance, and …
The Hybrid Japanese Knife Power Cutter We usually associate the term “Japanese cutlery” with delicacy, but the Enso HD Santoku pushes that assumption a little. Enso knives are part of the Yaxell brand. There’s something about the name Enso being specific to some vendor or other. I don’t completely understand the distinction, but I do …
A Great Japanese Kitchen Knife for People Who Normally Use Western Style Cutlery Shun’s Classic series sits in a good spot cushioned by mostly approachable prices and a trustworthy name recognition. It’s also the last stop in Shun’s whole line up of knife sets before things start getting expensive. This seven inch Santoku is nothing …
A Tough Alternative To Shun Classic The 8 inch Mon chef knife is a pretty knife that’s comfortable and cuts well in that order. It’s not a high performance chef knife, but it is a durable knife that requires a minimal amount of maintenance compared to other kitchen knives in the same price range. And …
We Cover The Difference Between All The Yaxell Knife Series Including: Mon, Gou, Dragon, Ran And More Of all the kitchen knives coming out of Seki right now, Yaxell might be making some of the most approachable stuff, with the possible exception of Tojiro. Comfort Over Sharpness The handles on most of the knives out …
So TOPS Knives made an Outdoor Chef Knife for Some Reason This is a confusing knife at first. The handle and sheath mark this as some kind of camping or backpacking knife, but the actual shape of it seems more suited to the kitchen. Put the Frog Market Special in a line up of a …
This Bushcraft Chef Knife Hybrid May Be The Ultimate Option For Survival Food Prep Or Just A Really Practical Camping Knife The Bush Slicer is a fixed blade Swiss Army knife. It is tough versatile and fun. Initially I despised the blade notch, and I would still probably prefer a version without it. But it …
Kitchen Knives And Sets By Companies Like Buck, Kershaw, Spyderco, TOPS and More There’s an odd, little-known trend among the EDC knife makers of the world: A lot of tactical, hunting and gentleman’s folder pocket knife companies like Buck, Case, Boker, and Cold Steel make kitchen knives. Every now and then you’ll catch a company …
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