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 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, …
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 …
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