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What Is a Honesuki? The Japanese Poultry Knife Built for Butchery
Most Japanese knives are famous for slicing. The honesuki is famous for something messier: taking a whole chicken apart faster and cleaner than any knife you've used. It's a specialist,...
What Is a Honesuki? The Japanese Poultry Knife Built for Butchery
Most Japanese knives are famous for slicing. The honesuki is famous for something messier: taking a whole chicken apart faster and cleaner than any knife you've used. It's a specialist,...
The Best Cutting Boards for Japanese Knives (and the Ones That Ruin Edges)
Here's an uncomfortable truth we deliver at the sharpening bench every week: most "dull" Japanese knives weren't worn out by cutting food. They were worn out by the board underneath...
The Best Cutting Boards for Japanese Knives (and the Ones That Ruin Edges)
Here's an uncomfortable truth we deliver at the sharpening bench every week: most "dull" Japanese knives weren't worn out by cutting food. They were worn out by the board underneath...
Tojiro Knives: Japan's Best Value in a Serious Kitchen Knife
Ask a professional cook to name a Japanese knife brand that punches above its price, and Tojiro comes up almost immediately. It's the knife hiding in half the knife rolls...
Tojiro Knives: Japan's Best Value in a Serious Kitchen Knife
Ask a professional cook to name a Japanese knife brand that punches above its price, and Tojiro comes up almost immediately. It's the knife hiding in half the knife rolls...
What Is a Nakiri? The Japanese Vegetable Knife, Explained
Walk past the vegetable station in any serious kitchen and you'll spot it: a flat, squared-off blade that looks almost like a small cleaver, moving through produce faster than seems...
What Is a Nakiri? The Japanese Vegetable Knife, Explained
Walk past the vegetable station in any serious kitchen and you'll spot it: a flat, squared-off blade that looks almost like a small cleaver, moving through produce faster than seems...
Japanese Knife Makers and Forges: How to Tell Who Made Your Blade
Shop for a Japanese knife and you'll quickly notice it's sold by a name: a maker, a forge, sometimes a single bladesmith. That name carries real weight, but if you're...
Japanese Knife Makers and Forges: How to Tell Who Made Your Blade
Shop for a Japanese knife and you'll quickly notice it's sold by a name: a maker, a forge, sometimes a single bladesmith. That name carries real weight, but if you're...
How to Buy Your First Japanese Knife: A Beginner's Buying Guide
Buying your first Japanese knife should be exciting, but it's easy to get buried before you start. Blade shapes with unfamiliar names, steel charts that read like chemistry homework, prices...
How to Buy Your First Japanese Knife: A Beginner's Buying Guide
Buying your first Japanese knife should be exciting, but it's easy to get buried before you start. Blade shapes with unfamiliar names, steel charts that read like chemistry homework, prices...