F. Dick

[Ballenxj]

Have a friend that is a retired gourmet chef that I asked about kitchen cutlery years ago.
His reply was all you need to know about good kitchen cutlery is the name,
F. Dick. What say all the board experts here? What's your experience?

 

[Chefget]

It was a pretty decent answer years ago

 

[NickyBB]

All German knives mainly use the same or very similar steels and behave the same. F Dick, Messer, Wustoff, Zwilling.
Not much difference between them of any significance besides style and looks.
F Dick started specializing in butcher knives.

 

[captn-tin]

All German knives mainly use the same or very similar steels and behave the same. F Dick, Messer, Wustoff, Zwilling.
Not much difference between them of any significance besides style and looks.
F Dick started specializing in butcher knives.

Retired meatcutter here. Used F. Dick knives for years without any problems at all. I liked the balance of their 10 & 12" steak knives in my hand. Great edge keepers.

 

[NickyBB]

Retired meatcutter here. Used F. Dick knives for years without any problems at all. I liked the balance of their 10 & 12" steak knives in my hand. Great edge keepers.

Not surprising as a retired butcher.
Im sure F Dick knives worked fine for you. As would have other German brands which cause no problem at all for their users.
Nothing wrong with F Dick knives at all, they are good knives. But apart from their long history as butcher knife makers, their knives aren't significantly different. Same type of forging same type of steel, similar profiles.