Your favorite kitchen knife

S.Alexander

S.Alexander

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I am thinking about doing a run of kitchen knives once I move into the new house and get all settled in. I'd like to see what you users like in the kitchen.

Personally I use a Henckels Santoku the most in kitchen. It is stainless, and is relatively low maintenance.

What do you look for in a kitchen knife?

What style do you use or like the most?

Carbon or stainless?


Here's what I'm using most of the time. Shocking I know, but I should probably make myself a custom kitchen knife.

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My in laws gave me a Messermeister with olive wood handles for my birthday this year and I'm in love! The wood handle is a joy to hold and work with, and the blade is both robust and sharp as heck. It also has a convex edge so it's easy to keep it nice and hair-shaving sharp with my strop.
Not my pic but...here you go!
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Nothing fancy for me. I use a Victorinox santoku for most of my kitchen cutting; the rest is also done with Victorinox knives; a parer and a round-tipped, serrated utility knife.

Jim
 
Good to see another Santoku user. I find they are good general duty kitchen knives.

Do you guys prefer stainless? Or carbon for ease of sharpening?
 
This isn't for me but its the first kitchen knife I've made... 1/8" Ti with carbide edge.



This is my most used kitchen knife, DDR custom AA-AXD...

 
I have an old PatPending USA Gerber and early model Cutco chefs knives that are razor sharpe and can hack thru a deers pelvis and go right back to cutting tomatoes.
 
JA Henckels 7" Santuko is my goto prep knife.

I also have a collection of old Chicago Cutlery Biocurve Commercial knives as backups.
 
My favorite work horse is a 270 mm Kochi in blue #2
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second is a no name reclamation project that was found all rusted up in a barn in Ukiah
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cleaned up a bit with a DIY handle from scrap oak
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OldNavy said:
My favorite work horse is a 270 mm Kochi in blue #2
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second is a no name reclamation project that was found all rusted up in a barn in Ukiah
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cleaned up a bit with a DIY handle from scrap oak
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That blue #2 looks like a beaut!

Charlie Mike said:
This isn't for me but its the first kitchen knife I've made... 1/8" Ti with carbide edge.



This is my most used kitchen knife, DDR custom AA-AXD...

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Cm, that DDR is almost as big as a chef knife. Haha.
 
I prefer stainless... At home I'm always so go, go, go, as is the wife, and the mother-in-law who is over quite a bit to help out with her grandson, and we all split cooking duties at our convenience; that said, I work 3td shift and use the Knives least as I'm usually asleep at dinner time, but the Knives are constantly left out with the dishes over night... Carbon is great for the pro specific who will be caring for his tools religiously, but for the average busy household, stainless is a safer (more forgiving) bet, and still works great...
 
strategy9 said:
I prefer stainless... At home I'm always so go, go, go, as is the wife, and the mother-in-law who is over quite a bit to help out with her grandson, and we all split cooking duties at our convenience; that said, I work 3td shift and use the Knives least as I'm usually asleep at dinner time, but the Knives are constantly left out with the dishes over night... Carbon is great for the pro specific who will be caring for his tools religiously, but for the average busy household, stainless is a safer (more forgiving) bet, and still works great...
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That's a great point about stainless being more convenient for a busy household. I just looked at my own kitchen where my wife left a knife on the counter overnight...

Any fans of other Japanese styled kitchen knives? I kind of like the look of the honesuki.
 
I prefer some type of gyuto. I like the gyuto's flatter belly over the traditional european style knives with the more rocking cut style belly.
 
Mine is the Ken Onion Shun 8" chefs knife; it feels great AND looks great (to me) so it is fun to use. :D Sorry, I don't do pics well (actually, at all) :o.
 
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