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reccomend cutlery: my cheap knives are teh suck

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Originally posted by: xSauronx
seriously, i have a knife set i got cheap never planning to use it for like 30 bucks somewhere when i got married....

ive been cooking alot lately...and these cheapo knives suck. i dont want to spend a ton of cash on some knives, but i need some decent ones. steak knives arent needed, as what i have will do fine for that. but i need a chef knife/paring knife/bread knife at least

what are the cooks here using, and what should i expect to spend on some decent cutlery?
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walmart has some nice inexpensive knives
 
I have a selection of Henkels 4-star knives that have seen 30+ years of hard use. My recomendation would be to buy a few individual knives that you are sure that you will use, then add to your set as you feel the need. An 8" chef's knife, 3" or 4" paring knife, and a 7" santoku would make a good start. Kohl's often has open stock Henkels on sale. A good pair of poultry shears is always useful too.

 
I have a selection of Henkels 4-star knives that have seen 30+ years of hard use. My recomendation would be to buy a few individual knives that you are sure that you will use, then add to your set as you feel the need. An 8" chef's knife, 3" or 4" paring knife, and a 7" santoku would make a good start. Kohl's often has open stock Henkels on sale. A good pair of poultry shears is always useful too.

 
I have a selection of Henkels 4-star knives that have seen 30+ years of hard use. My recomendation would be to buy a few individual knives that you are sure that you will use, then add to your set as you feel the need. An 8" chef's knife, 3" or 4" paring knife, and a 7" santoku would make a good start. Kohl's often has open stock Henkels on sale. A good pair of poultry shears is always useful too.

 
From what I learn, you don't need good knives, just a good sharpening stone. I got those knives from 99 Ranch Market, and sharpen them so they can slice tomato without force. Every now and then, I'll go get new knives, cost me a couple dollars a knife.
 
Miracle Blade III Set just wait up till 2 am and start going through the channels. You can get whole set for 4 easy payments of 19.95.

But Wait if you call within the next 30 minutes you will get our paring knife and a second Miracle Blade for Free. Theres even more. Call right now and we will pay for one of your payments so that means that you only play 3 easy payments of 19.95
 
Originally posted by: glareman
I have a selection of Henkels 4-star knives that have seen 30+ years of hard use. My recomendation would be to buy a few individual knives that you are sure that you will use, then add to your set as you feel the need. An 8" chef's knife, 3" or 4" paring knife, and a 7" santoku would make a good start. Kohl's often has open stock Henkels on sale. A good pair of poultry shears is always useful too.
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Why a santoku?
 
Because it slices better than a chef's knife, and has excellent fine control for dicing vegtables. It's just a very useful, light duty, all purpose knife.
 
I just bought a set of Wusthof Classic knives and they are fantastic. They're solid, heavy, and perfectly balanced for my hands and style of slicing/chopping/julienning. With nothing more than a quick slide over a steel now and then, these guys should outlive me by a wide margin.

Wusthof also drop forges all their knives (except the Silverpoint line but those are way downmarket anyway) while most manufacturers, including Cutco and Henckles, have moved on to stamping their knives to cut costs (ha!) and improve margins.

I'll take classic, forged knives, thank you. Wusthof is great.
 
You really should hold a few different brands in your hand and see which type of handle feels best to you. But make sure you buy a good forged knife, and don't think you need a whole set. All you really need is a Chef's knife (8-10") a paring knife and serrated bread knife. I have quite a few Global (japanese style) knives which a slightly sharper than the good Germans (actually they are VERY sharp.) But you do get what you pay for, do they math on a set of knives and if each knife averages $10-20 common sense should tell you it's junk...
 
Sharpness is not a measure of how good a knife is.

I can take a piece of aluminum flat stock and put an edge on it that will slice a tomatoe easily....however that edge would be fragile at best and not long lasting.

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I have a great 8" Chef's Knife by J.A. Henckels. I have had it for about 6 years. I love it, but it needs sharpened at least once a week.
My mom just got me a set of Miracle Blade II's for xmas and I really like them. She has had her set for about 6 months and they are still as sharp as ever.
The only think I don't like about them is the lack of a good non-serrated chef's knife for thinly slicing meats without tearing them up at all. But I have my Henckels knife for that. For everything else, I use the Miracle Blades and they have been great.
 
if you go with the French set @ Amazon, you get:
"* 3-1/2 inch parer, 6-inch boner, 5-1/2 inch tomato knife, 6-inch utility knife "
:Q

 
Originally posted by: MaxDepth
if you go with the French set @ Amazon, you get:
"* 3-1/2 inch parer, 6-inch boner, 5-1/2 inch tomato knife, 6-inch utility knife "
:Q
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My wife likes that 6-inch boner, fortunately that's the one I have.

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Tramontina if you're looking to save the green, Wusthof or Henckel if you want the best quality. Only consider pieces that are forged, stamped knives for the most part are a waste of money. An 8" Chef and a paring knife would be the bare essentials.
 
Almost anything in the cutco pricerange, except cutco. 😀 They are overpriced crap. Try Henkles, The german one that starts with a 'w' that I cannot spell, and if you are easy on your stuff, the ceramic's are awesome. But no cutting on metal or banging it around.
 
if you have big hands, it might be wiser to go with a 10" chef's instead of an 8". the extra 2" usually helps you get a good rocking motion for proper technique
 
Originally posted by: edro13
Best. Knives. Evar.

Only $.99 too 😀
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roflmao ... i went to a 99 cent store once and they had a whole knife set...me and my roommates thought "what the heck..it's a buck..what have we got to lose?"...

well we lost a buck yup...

they sucked...they sucked bad...they didn't cut right, and after one wash, they started to rust...we saw the knife starting to rust in real time...i've never seen rusting other than in time lapse videos....rusting took a matter of seconds and we saw it form really fast....

sigh...
 
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