Your best bet if you’re going for an all-round chef’s knife is probably a santoku, which translates as ‘three virtues’ ...

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Kitchen knife FAQs Sets of anything tend to involve compromised quality ... blades on a budget. We took Japanese knives out of the running for our top chef's knife pick. While they're a personal ...

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There are a all kinds of tools and equipment you need in a kitchen ... invest in quality now so you won't have to invest later after your poorer-quality knife fails you. What is the best chef's ...

Narrator: Japanese ... most expensive knives produced by the shop sold for $6,900. Takamura Terukazu: Mainly three things are important to kitchen-knife making. First is quality materials.