What are the best kitchen knives?
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What are the best kitchen knives?
How to Buy a Knife : Recipes and Cooking : Food Network
High quality long lasting knives do not come cheap!
Around here probably one of the closer places to buy better quality knives (read: not walmart or kmart) would be Bed Bath & Beyond. Kohls carries some food network branded knives. If there's a kitchen supply store around here it's slipping my memory.
ex: Calphalon Contemporary Open Stock Cutlery - Bed Bath & Beyond
http://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/prod...p?SKU=14710264
IMO the best knives are sharp and not sticking in me anywhere or used to mutilate my flesh. ;)
How many people know of the Rada knives?
I do. Rada does a very good job for their price. I saw the gold mine of Rada knives today at a flea market.
anything ceramic................ love ceramic knives. what exactly are you looking for just all purpose knives or what? this is a very broad topic.
Actually I was wanting to know what I was getting into, I am going to start selling Rada knives and was seeing if really anyone had heard about them and whether it was a good investment to get into. Sorry for the confusion, its been a rough couple of weeks LOL!
Those Rada knives are some of the worst I've ever used. That's all mom had when I was growing up, didn't really know any better. As I've purchased better knives, I've realized just how bad those Rada knives are.
They won't take an edge and the handles are ergonomically inferior.
As for quality, the Chicago Cutlery available at Walmart isn't a bad knife for the money. I've got more expensive knives, but I keep coming back to the CC. The Food Network branded knives at Kohl's aren't that great. Purchased two FN santoku-style about a year ago. One of the blades developed a crack after three months of sparing use.
We have a set of the Gerber kitchen collection, steak knives, pearing, butcher, and slicing knives and meat cleaver. Paid a pretty big price for them and they have been well worth what we paid for them. Excellent quality.
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Originally Posted by centennialdawg
That is awsome. Ive been thinking about buying some for a while.
Then be prepared to pay out the "wazoo" for them, they cost around 500 bucks.Quote:
Originally Posted by MikeJones
I can't see paying $500 for Gerber kitchen knives. Wusthoff or Shun, yes. But Gerber?
What material are they?
Hell better be gold for that kind of price!Quote:
Originally Posted by imported_elp6n
$500 isn't all that much for a set of knives.
If you have the means to make the initial investment, buying one set of very high quality knives will save $ in the long run. Buying the right ones means you'll never have to buy another set again.
Not to mention there's a difference in performance between cheap knives and good knives. A knife that cant keep an edge is more likely to cause you to injure yourself because you have to use force to make the cut.
They are made out of the same metal they make their sporting knives from. A very high grade of stainless surgical steel.Quote:
Originally Posted by imported_elp6n
See I actually differ from Burley on the RADA versus Chicago knives for the money. Neither compares to really high quality knives, but I would just as soon use the RADA than those Chicago from what I have used of them. I thought all of them basically sucked.
As said before ceramic knives are the way to go (other than for butchering meat). I have 3 ceramic knives and wouldnt trade them for anything else.
Wusthoff or Shun, can't lose either way. I've found nothing to beat them, and I've had my hands on a crazy amount of knives. I prefer Shun, but not by alot. I butcher meat, and I have a knife roll full of both. Great, great knives.
And there is a Kitchen store in Kingsport. It's down on Center Street(?). Not sure exactly if thats the name, but same street its on the same street Morrell's Music and Krispy Kreme used to be on. It's called Mary's Kitchen Shop. They sell both Shun and Wusthoff knives. If you work in the food industry you get 15 percent off, but I'm sure you could just tell them that even if you don't they ask for no proof.
Y'all need some Ginsus..them mofos saw through a can and still slice 'maters. Plus, if you order now, they'll send you another set just for tryin' 'em..that's 2 sets for the incredible low price of $19.99 !! You'll never need another kitchen knife..n the dude on the commercial looks just like a real Japanese cook !! Order now! Lol
they really arent that bad. ive used a **** ton of knives as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by sup-rbeast