Buying guide
Best Chef's Knives: A Buying Guide Built on Specs
Most chef's knife guides describe how a knife feels. This one starts with the four numbers that decide how it feels, then tells you which knives are worth the money at each price.
The workhorse of any kitchen. Sizing, steel, balance, and which one to buy at every budget.
Most chef's knife guides describe how a knife feels. This one starts with the four numbers that decide how it feels, then tells you which knives are worth the money at each price.
Two inches sounds trivial. It changes the weight, the board you need, and how many strokes an onion takes.
The difference is not craftsmanship or country. It is a single engineering decision about hardness, and everything else follows from it.