Kalmia wrote:
Knife blade shape preferences are a matter of personal tastes. At the
store see if you can hold the knife and try it out. Fake doing some
slicing and see how it feels in your hand. Maybe you'll like it, maybe
not.
Once I bought my santoku I nearly stopped using the two chefs knives in
our collection. I happen to like the wider blade chefs knives better
than chefs knives with triangular blades. The almost square shape of
the santuko is a further move along that spectrum so it makes sense
given my tastes in chefs knives. There are limits to my taste, though.
A chinese cleaver is farther still towards a rectangle and I like the
santuko better than the thin cleaver.
Knife blade shape preferences are a matter of personal tastes. At the
store see if you can hold the knife and try it out. Fake doing some
slicing and see how it feels in your hand. Maybe you'll like it, maybe
not.
Once I bought my santoku I nearly stopped using the two chefs knives in
our collection. I happen to like the wider blade chefs knives better
than chefs knives with triangular blades. The almost square shape of
the santuko is a further move along that spectrum so it makes sense
given my tastes in chefs knives. There are limits to my taste, though.
A chinese cleaver is farther still towards a rectangle and I like the
santuko better than the thin cleaver.