MCW Thread - chef knives

[Fulham Fallout]

I always go Japanese wooden handle knives. As long as you have a decent sharpener you can't go wrong. I normally spend £40-£50 on a decent knife as I love my cooking.

I bought a brilliant sharpener on Amazon for £30 and it makes all the difference.

Think we may need a cooking bored.  Seriously .

[Baggie_Nick]

Baggie Nick bought a decent set some years ago.  Be interested to hear how he’s getting on with them or if they were fake?

Globals are fine, mate. A great deal from Aldi at the time. The curved veg knife is really nice.

But as daft as it sounds my chefs chef's knife I purchased from IKEA some years ago is my favourite. It's got a nice but of weight behind if where the Global knives are quite light. Each to his/her own but I prefer a weightier knife. Globals are quality though.

[Baggie_Nick]

I always go Japanese wooden handle knives. As long as you have a decent sharpener you can't go wrong. I normally spend £40-£50 on a decent knife as I love my cooking.

I bought a brilliant sharpener on Amazon for £30 and it makes all the difference.

Think we may need a cooking bored.  Seriously .

This one is a fantastic knife (the veg one).

Knife

[SW4Baggie]

I have a Sabatier 9 inch (oo-er missus!) which I use for most cutting and chopping but also a much thinner bladed, similar length Global knife for slicing Jamon and so forth wafer-fin.  The Sabatier sharpens quickly but dulls pretty quick too while the Global is razor-sharp and rarely needs sharpening. i.e. the opposite of what Salter Spring says. When I was a chef Sabatiers were de rigeur but that was a long long time ago.

Innuedno aside, I think this is the most MCW post ever written on here...

100% on Global!

[Brentbaggie]

You’re just jealous of my big hard one.

[4-hero]

Got some C.P. Company knives with goggles in them, seriously, a Knife is a fucking knife Shirley? Saying that I have had to get the plasterboard saw out the garage to tackle some of the missus’s piss poor efforts in the kitchen.

[SausEggBaton]

Have some Berlinger Haus santoku knives, very good with even weight, don't cost an arm and a leg and easy to sharpen.

[ChamonixBaggie]

I can get a Victorinox or Sabatier for 50 or so euros (Globals and Wusthofs are more around 100) so I reckon I'll treat myself to one of them.

@Peachy - Can I ask which Japanese knife you got for £50? Also if you could link the sharpener you got that would be great? There's a lot of chat in forums etc that you need 3 different whetstones and the knowledge to use them....Sounds like they've disappeared up their own arses a bit though.

Another thing I'm definitely investing in is a magnetic knife strip. A decent knife shouldn't be going in a drawer/drying rack.

[GunsOfNavarone]

BBC Good Food knife sharpener guide attached........

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/review/best-...eners-test

...... I use a hand held sharpener similar to a couple in the guide, although mine's not on there. I bought it from TK Maxx the same time I got our knives and block. Knives and sharpener came to a much reduced cost of £20 in a sale about fifteen years ago.

May replace the knives in a couple of years but they're still going strong for now. Whatever happens I've no intention of spending shit loads when they need replacing. I nearly always find fault with things so there's little point as I wouldn't want to feel as though I'd wasted my money.