High Quality Kitchen Knife Set

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Johnny Canuck

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Hello, what are recommending for a "high quality" western style kitchen knife set? I cannot give you a price range at this point in time, it will depend on the knife steel etc.!

No junk, I already have some cheapos at home :)

Thank you,

JC
 
You mean western style blade profiles, or just western styled handles?

You can pick up a Tojiro DP 3pc set in VG10 steel for about $130 shipped - includes a 210mm gyuto, 150mm petty, and 80mm paring. No knife block, just the knives.

You can certainly spend a lot more, but those are good knives.

Did you have a specific list of knife types you wanted to have in your set?
 
Hi, both western style blade profiles and western styled handles.

Are the Tojiro DP knives the one's that were suggested designs from BF years ago?

Thank you :)
 
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If it were me I'd go with Wusthof Classic Ikon. I like the bolster style on the Classic Ikon better than the regular Classic. They are the same knives as the Ikon line but with a POM handle instead of the blackwood handles on the Ikon line. I am personally not willing to pay the upcharge just for wood handles. The Ikon bolster doesn't go all the way to the heel like the Classic does, which makes for ease of sharpening and allows me to use the heel for cutting. I also like to use a pinch grip on kitchen knives and the bolster design is better for that.

They are X50CrMoV15 steel run at 58 HRC hardness, so they will respond ok to honing with a steel and would fairly easy to sharpen.

You can get them in several sets with/without knife blocks, and in varying numbers of knives from 3 to 12 depending on how many knives you want. A couple of the big on-line kitchen retailers sell them usually for the same price no matter who you buy from, so look for free shipping or special extra % off deals if you want to comparison shop.

I like the Wusthof German knives in general better than the Zwilling/Henckels family in comparable trim and price lines.

There are others: Messermeister, F. Dick for example- perhaps you will get more recommendations in this thread.
 
What do you knife people think of the knives sold at this website? They seem like they could be better than the standard German steel knives we have here in the West. :)

Here is an interesting test video with the humble Victorinox coming out on top! Even above all the expensive kitchen knives :)

Thanks,

JC :):)
 
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JCK, JKI, CKTG, Korin - all are good sources of Japanese knives. I thought you specifically said you wanted western knives?

And yes, Victorinox Fibrox is well regarded as a good value brand. Perhaps I misinterpreted your criteria for "high quality" and you instead meant best value?

Bladeforums doesn't really focus much on cooking knives, even though we do have this sub-forum here. If you want to really get a lot of advice on cooking knives, then Kitchenknifeforums and the CKTG forums are good places with a lot of participants.

At lot depends on how much/how often you cook, what sorts of ingredients you use, and the types of recipes and what they require in terms of food prep work. If you just do basic home cooking, then pretty much any decent knives that you know how to keep sharp will do the job.
 
jc57 said:
JCK, JKI, CKTG, Korin - all are good sources of Japanese knives. I thought you specifically said you wanted western knives?
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Hi, I think I made a mistake. What I want are western handle and western style blades, but I am open to more exotic steel than the standard German steel.

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And yes, Victorinox Fibrox is well regarded as a good value brand. Perhaps I misinterpreted your criteria for "high quality" and you instead meant best value?
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I was making the point that uninformed buyers can pay a lot of money for what they thought was a "high quality" knife and yet it is of lesser quality compared to lower price knives.

I will look into the other forums.

Thanks,

JC
 
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