Chef's Path Professional Chef Knife Set - 8" Ultra Sharp Japanese Santoku Kitchen Knife - German High Carbon Stainless Steel Chefs Knife with Sheath & Premium Packaging - Best Value Cooking Knife

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The carbon steel holds its edge very well and is especially easy to sharpen, but is more prone to rusting if you're not careful with it.

As New York Times assistant managing editor Sam Sifton told us during testing, “[A good knife] is the balance of utility and the thing that moves your heart.The experts in the Good Housekeeping Institute Kitchen Appliances and Innovation Lab tested more than 30 kitchen knives to find the best ones on the market. The brand's 6-inch knife is perfect for smaller hands and glides through ripe tomatoes with its sharp edge. ERGONOMIC HANDLE - The ergonomic stainless steel handle ensures comfortable use, even for extended periods of time.

Selecting a chef’s knife has a lot to do with personal preference, but we’re confident that the Mac MTH-80 is one of the most widely appealing knives available. We chopped some onions while gripping the knife farther back on the handle and found that the contoured handle accommodated that style of grip well.However it should not be used on stone or glass chopping boards and is not intended to tackle bone with. Never put any sharp blade in the dishwasher, since it’s not good for the edge to bump up against other things, such as glassware and ceramic (materials that are harder than the steel). Global G-2-8 Chef's Knife: Global knives are a divisive brand: People either love them or hate them. Made from very hard Swedish (read: pure) stainless steel, the knife will hold its edge longer than many, requiring less frequent sharpening—though, when it does come time to sharpen, that hard steel is going to require a bit more skill than most. To make sure we considered that situation, we sliced our way through a case of pineapples, trimming the skins and tops, carving away the pineapple's tough eyes, and then cutting the fruit into smaller pieces.

Good Housekeeping participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means we may get paid commissions on editorially chosen products purchased through our links to retailer sites. Rada Cutlery French Chef Knife: This was a particularly poor specimen, with a dull edge and low-quality construction.

For those who don't want a full bolster, Wüsthof makes several other lines of knives without it that might be worth considering.