Our cooking knives are designed for greater precision, accuracy and comfort. You can also find beautifully crafted cutlery that blends seamlessly with your kitchen décor. These premium blades are composed of zirconia and have a razor-sharp edge that can cut a variety of fruits, vegetables, and boneless meats into paper-thin slices. The coating peeling off the knife was therefore the main point of criticism from customers. These handles are ergonomically designed, but they lack a decent grip and can become very slippery when wet. For tomatoes, this Kyocera ceramic knife with serrations is ideal.
Our bakeware is perfect for pleasing a crowd or spending quality time with your own little sous chef. The handle has a slim, ergonomic shape that offers optimal support and seamless operation. You can prevent cross-contamination while preparing meals thanks to the color-coding. Additionally, it might assist you in choosing the right knife for the task. The nice thing about Kyocera is that they will professionally sharpen your knives for you if they get dull.
In the past decade or so, Asian knives have also become popular. Designed to prep delicate foods like fish and tender vegetables with an up and down motion, they’re lighter and thinner and have blades with less of an angle. Most knives in American kitchens are based on Western-style. They tend to be thick and heavy as they’re intended to cut through root vegetables and large cuts of meat. On a German knife, there’s a bolster and a curved blade to make it easy to glide and rock when you’re cutting and mincing.
This is where an electric knife can help you efficiently perform a task. While the edge on the chef’s knife is as thin as on an Asian-style knife for precision cutting, it has the shape of a western blade for heft. You’ll find it easily sails through a tomato, creating paper thin slices but also rocks back and forth for gotham steel cookware sets mincing garlic or herbs. On all of the pieces, the bolster is sloped, so you can comfortably use the pinch grip that the pros use to give them good control. This set includes five knives (a carving knife, a bread knife, a serrated tomato and table knife, a serrated paring knife, and a straight-edge paring knife).
Henckels blades are hardened to 57 on the Rockwell scale, while Cuisinart’s steel is softer, scoring 55. Both companies use durable synthetic material to make their handles. Henckels is cuisinart knife owned by Zwilling J.A. Henckels, one of the most renowned knife makers in the world, founded in 1731. Cuisinart was founded in 1973 and is best-known for its small kitchen appliance.
At the time of this writing, you can purchase the Mighty Carver electric carving knifefrom the brand’s website starting at $74.99. In addition to considering how comfortable the knives felt in the hand and how well they cut, we considered what pieces were included in the set. Our picks contain a selection of knives that we think you will use often in everyday cooking.