How good are Cutco kitchen knives?

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My girlfriend just landed a job selling and working the phones selling Cutco knives. I was wondering how good of a knife they are. Anyone?
 
There is at least one prior thread accessed by "search."

Having owned several (garage sales), they are decent knives but not worth the price in my opinion. Also, may not be a good deal for those selling if they ask for big investment.
 
Run, don't walk away from being a dealer. They are too overpriced to make money selling them. You are unlikely to recover the cost of buying a set of demo knives unless you get your parents to buy them from you.
 
I was given a 7" slicer 20 years ago and, using it every day, it just stays sharp and cuts everything effortlessly...blows my mind! Best kitchen knife I've ever had til I got some Forschner Victorinox Fibrox knives that kick butt (and are a lot cheaper).
Think twice about selling them. They are overpriced, and you'll probably only wind up selling to family and friends...and feeling bad about it later after you've gotten out of the biz. They're on eBay by the hundreds all the time and sell in perfect or new condition for a fraction of what you'll try to sell them for. A lot of what's on eBay are the demo knives/kits from the salesmen who quit. I've gotten some for 20-25% of retail. Why buy from a salesman?
 
No selling investment, its an hourly job. Thanks for the opinions and for smacking me for not searching.
 
Yep, get your g/f outta there. Search for my thread a while back, I was thinking of working for them for a while. Link in the post is pretty informative. Good luck.

Ash
 
Cutco knives are really expensive for what they are! They kinda remind me of Ron Propiel and and his fishing spool that will catch anything from a minnow to a whale...long story short, my ex used to sell them also, and she's been long gone and forgotten. However, the Cutco knives are still with me, and they still do what they're supposed to do.... CUT! :D
 
A very good friend of my sons sold them one summer and he did alright according to my sons friend. We ended up buying a small set from him. 3 knives that my wife uses to this day and loves them. I like the Chicago cutlery I bought her umpteen yrs ago. She swears by them and they offer life time free sharpening on them. She has sent them back once to be sharpened. She really abuses them too and they just seemt to keep on cutting. Keepem sharp
 
For the price, they are junk. Compared to your average kitchen knife you'll find at most non knife stores, they're good stuff.

They make a nice product thats serviceable, but they put so much hype behind them its unbeleivable. They actually brag about their ice cream scoop being of full tang construction, and descibe their blade steel as "High cabon surgical grade stainless". Some poor SOB at the county fair had a cutco booth and I asked him some questions. He gave me that line on the steel and I just started laughing. "No...I want to know the alloy"...."uhhh...440A" Enough said. Its not bad for kitchen use, you'll need to sharpen it on occasion and it won't rust. But they try to make it out as some kind of super steel.
And their handles, are plastic. Not micarta, or fibermascus, or G10, or any of that stuff. Just some type of plastic, probably injection molded. It seems to hold up well, but looks and feels cheap to me. And they make it out like its something from NASA.

They're practice is also to screw their employees blind with the whole buying a demo set, and working on commission or whatever the deal is.
 
The salespeople are not employees they are independent distributors like in an MLM unless they changed their practices. They usually recruit kids out of high school and they usually only make a few sales to friends and relatives. Like others have said, the knives are pretty good but nowhere near worth the money. I have a few and my Buck Special works better in the kitchen and that is my primary kitchen knife. I don't eat rope, so rope cutting ability is not important in a kitchen knife. ;) It would be interesting to see them compared to the Spyderco kitchen knives. I'm not into kitchen knives but my guess is that for the price of the big set you can probably get a set of custom kitchen knives.
 
Originally posted by Matt Shade
...descibe their blade steel as "High cabon surgical grade stainless". Some poor SOB at the county fair had a cutco booth and I asked him some questions. He gave me that line on the steel and I just started laughing. "No...I want to know the alloy"...."uhhh...440A" Enough said.
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I didn't know 440A was considered a High Carbon Stainless steel? They're really exaggerating things.

One of my sister's high school friends got a job selling their products. My parents bought a pair of Cutco Scissors and a Spreading knife. The scissors are pretty nice, and I use the spreading knife whenever I have a bagel or make a sandwich though, it's really nice, and comes sharp.
 
My wife is what I would consider an "above average" cook.

Although there are better values, several years ago we bought a set of Cutco from the son of some close friends. They were all struggling to put him through college.

Knowing what I know now, I would've bought Wusthof Culinar or Forschner Rosewood models. Mostly because I hate synthetic handles. But we needed knives at the time, I had just received a hugh bonus, and we wanted to help them out.

We haven't been disappointed. The knives are durable, stay sharp, and are dishwasher safe. The trimmer is the one we use the most often. We also use the carver, peeler, and shears frequently. The spreader gets occasional use. Everything else stays in the drawer.
 
some are decent knives, most all the kitchen cutlery, save a few, are junk. Not too mention they are overpriced.
 
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Ash,

Best one I've ever seen. Bar none.

Al
 
Some college kid got my # and tried to sell me. Had a long story about practicing for a speech class..... I told him I was a knife maker and he said he wanted to come by and see.

Within a week of that call this Cutco salesman was hauled off for child molestation.

Makes you wonder.

Steve
 
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