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Everything we've learned about Japanese knives, from the cooks and craftspeople who use them. Whether you're buying your first gyuto, learning to sharpen on a whetstone, or going deep on steel and makers, our guides are here to help you choose well and care for what you own.

Guides

How to Buy Your First Japanese Knife: A Beginner's Buying Guide

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...

How to Care for and Store Your Japanese Knife

How to Care for and Store Your Japanese Knife

A good Japanese knife can last decades, but only if you treat it like the precision tool it is. The same hardness and thin edge that make these knives a...

How to Care for and Store Your Japanese Knife

A good Japanese knife can last decades, but only if you treat it like the precision tool it is. The same hardness and thin edge that make these knives a...

What Is a Petty Knife? The Small Japanese Blade You'll Reach for Constantly

What Is a Petty Knife? The Small Japanese Blade You'll Reach for Constantly

Most people buy a gyuto or a santoku first, and they're right to. But ask a cook which knife they actually pick up the most, and a surprising number will...

What Is a Petty Knife? The Small Japanese Blade You'll Reach for Constantly

Most people buy a gyuto or a santoku first, and they're right to. But ask a cook which knife they actually pick up the most, and a surprising number will...

Knife Sharpening in New Orleans: What to Know Before You Drop Off Your Blades

Knife Sharpening in New Orleans: What to Know Before You Drop Off Your Blades

If you own knives worth keeping sharp, sooner or later you'll search for knife sharpening in New Orleans and wonder who to trust with them. A good edge makes every...

Knife Sharpening in New Orleans: What to Know Before You Drop Off Your Blades

If you own knives worth keeping sharp, sooner or later you'll search for knife sharpening in New Orleans and wonder who to trust with them. A good edge makes every...

Japanese Knife Steel, Explained

Japanese Knife Steel, Explained

Start shopping for a Japanese chef knife and you run headfirst into a chemistry lesson. White steel, blue steel, VG-10, Aogami Super, HAP40, Ginsan. Glance at any listing and it...

Japanese Knife Steel, Explained

Start shopping for a Japanese chef knife and you run headfirst into a chemistry lesson. White steel, blue steel, VG-10, Aogami Super, HAP40, Ginsan. Glance at any listing and it...

Gyuto vs. Santoku: Which Japanese Knife Should You Buy?

Gyuto vs. Santoku: Which Japanese Knife Should You Buy?

If you're buying your first Japanese knife, two names come up more than any others: the gyuto and the santoku. They're both all-purpose kitchen knives, they look broadly similar to...

Gyuto vs. Santoku: Which Japanese Knife Should You Buy?

If you're buying your first Japanese knife, two names come up more than any others: the gyuto and the santoku. They're both all-purpose kitchen knives, they look broadly similar to...