I also really like the chef’s knife, which is on the heavier side (eight ounces) without feeling burdensome. This one gives great control and is still hardy enough to hack away at a squash. The blade is only six inches long (two inches shorter than another Nakiri I own that I find too big for nuanced tasks like chopping through cauliflower). It looks a bit like a small cleaver but is meant for cutting vegetables with an entirely straight edge.
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Made In makes a relatively uncommon combination of knives - the three essentials, plus a Nakiri knife, which I have found to be a useful addition. “I use the scissors all the time,” Gleeson says, “for cutting everything from pizza and flatbreads to scallions.” It also includes some helpful (not superfluous) accessories: a wooden block to hold your blades safely, a honing steel to sharpen the edges, and a pair of “come-apart” kitchen shears (the “come-apart” makes them easy to clean). “I still have some of the pieces in my kitchen.” This particular set comes with a paring knife, a chef’s knife, and a serrated knife - the only three you really need when it comes down to performing most cooking tasks, as I explained before. “They’re just superhigh quality, and they really stand the test of time,” Grinshpan says.
It’s the one that cook and Top Chef Canada host Eden Grinshpan was told to buy when she was in culinary school, the one cookbook author Erin Gleeson registered for when she got married a decade ago and still uses, and the one preferred by multiple celebrity chefs with varying cooking styles (a quick Google search will tell you that both Ina Garten and Gordon Ramsay swear by them). But here I’ve denoted the style of each to the best of my ability, and then gone into more detail in the descriptions. To make things even more confusing, some Japanese companies make some European-style knives, and some European and American companies make Japanese-style knives. On the other hand, Japanese-style tend to be lighter with a thinner blade and straighter edge to facilitate extreme precision. These are generally heavier with a thicker, more curved blade to facilitate rocking back and forth with the tip down on your cutting board. First of all, European-style is kind of a catch-all term that can also be called German-style, French-style, and Western-style. And yet these terms are still commonly used, the distinctions notable enough that it’s good to have a sense of the main characteristics of each - especially when it comes to the chef’s knife in each of these sets. This classification is a bit of a tricky one because not every knife falls distinctly into one category or the other (and some knives don’t fall into either at all). But, of course, if you like the sound of any of these brands, you can browse all the other groupings they have to offer. When talking to experts about their favorite knife sets, I went with the assumption that you’re starting completely from scratch or redoing the basic makeup of your collection. The key is to make sure you don’t end up with a ton of blades and accessories you won’t use. If you’ve ever browsed the kitchen section of any home-goods store, you know that a deal with a lot of pieces in it might seem initially appealing, but if you look closely, there are unnecessary parts that will inevitably go to die in your cutlery drawer. You can, in fact, find curated groups of many different compositions - three pieces all the way up to 20-something pieces, all chef’s knives or mixed kinds, ones that include sharpening tools and blocks and ones that don’t. So that raises the question: Should you buy each individually or together as a set? Obviously, the answer is not the latter if you’re just missing one or two specific types. It’s a common trope that knives are an extension of a cook’s hand - but while they are arguably the most important tool you can wield in the kitchen, you need only a few reliable ones to perform most cutting, chopping, slicing, deboning, and carving tasks.
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