The ultimate buying guide to the best Japanese kitchen knives and chef's knives to give your cooking the professional edge.

this might be the knife best suited for your needs. I chop and cook vegetables almost every meal, so I reach for my santoku far more frequently than my chef’s knife. The chef's knife or santoku ...

No kitchen tool is more indispensable to the home cook than the chef’s knife. As the most important blade in any cutlery collection, the best chef’s knives can break down whole chickens, chop ...

as well as the best everyday Japanese knife. Food & Wine’s own editor-in-chief, Hunter Lewis, declared this MAC knife “evenly balanced between the weight of the blade and the handle,” making ...

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For home cooks looking to grow or fill out their knife collection, it’s nice to be able to do so in one fell swoop. If that’s you, the good news is that the best kitchen knife set you can buy ...