Posted: 10/5/2016 12:23:01 PM EDT
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I have been trying to find a decent knife set for the kitchen. Ours is shit. It's a Ronco Six Star that someone gave us years ago as a gift. Supposedly it has a lifetime warranty but a lifetime warranty on shit is still shit . . . no matter if it's replaced shit or repaired shit. I HATE these knives.
So, whatcha got? Do you prefer ceramic? I'd like for it to have steak knives. I'd like it to be $200 or less. Ideally $150 or less. |
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Get a magnetic knife strip, mount it to your wall, buy a decent chef and utility knife. Buy more knives as you need. pretty much exactly what I was going to say. Chefs knife, utility knife and a paring knife +1 on the magnetic strip. I just made one the other day 
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Get a magnetic knife strip, mount it to your wall, buy a decent chef and utility knife. Buy more knives as you need. pretty much exactly what I was going to say. Chefs knife, utility knife and a paring knife +1 on the magnetic strip. I just made one the other day http://i.imgur.com/Y48pfHm.jpg Nice work. Nice Shuns too. 
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These are really nice knives. If you don't need them right now then keep a watch on them on Amazon (watch all colors and sizes separately), they regularly shift the prices up and down with their pricing algorithms. I got the 7 knife set for just over $100 and I am pretty sure that at some point the 11 piece set in one of the colors was in the $150's.
https://www.amazon.com/KitchenAid-KKFMA11OB-Professional-Piece-Cutlery/dp/B00YFECCGW ETA: black 11 piece went to $223 in May per camelcamelcamel. Also, they do the same pricing thing with the individual knives in the set if you want to just buy them one off. |
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Get a magnetic knife strip, mount it to your wall, buy a decent chef and utility knife. Buy more knives as you need. pretty much exactly what I was going to say. Chefs knife, utility knife and a paring knife +1 on the magnetic strip. I just made one the other day http://i.imgur.com/Y48pfHm.jpg Nice work. Nice Shuns too. Nice. I agree. 1 5" santoku and 1 8" chef knife go a real long way. And a hone. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Keep an eye out for this deal to come around again:
http://sellout.woot.com/offers/victorinox-3-piece-cutlery-set-5 Last time I got the trio it was $29.95, plus $5 shipping. |
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Get a magnetic knife strip, mount it to your wall, buy a decent chef and utility knife. Buy more knives as you need. pretty much exactly what I was going to say. Chefs knife, utility knife and a paring knife +1 on the magnetic strip. I just made one the other day http://i.imgur.com/Y48pfHm.jpg Nice work. Nice Shuns too. they aren't bad, they work just fine until I get time to work on my knives again |
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https://www.amazon.com/Victorinox-Fibrox-45520-Frustration-Packaging/dp/B008M5U1C2/ref=sr_1_2?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1475685781&sr=1-2&keywords=victorinox+chef's+knife
There was an entire thread on this knife a while back. For the price it absolutely cannot be beaten. |
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This guy does some great work.
I'm prob gonna pick up a kitchen set myself. Been following him for a while to make sure he is legit. He has a lot of customers here in the US |
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Buy a Wusthof 8 inch chef's knife and a paring knife. Buy a good wood cutting board to use them on and a sharpening steel. They're expensive and may use up your $200 budget but, like a good firearm, with a little care you'll get a lot of good use from them and they'll last a lifetime. |
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Go Cuisinart or go home!
https://amzn.com/B00FLQ4EE6 
Just kidding.. do what others above are doing and get individual blades.. that is what I did. Here are my knives.. now.. i did get the Cuisinarts for my wife who is the destroyer of all things kitchen.. she loves them LOL. I maintain the edge on them for her behind the scenes... i dont think she even knows haha. 
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Get a magnetic knife strip, mount it to your wall, buy a decent chef and utility knife. Buy more knives as you need. pretty much exactly what I was going to say. Chefs knife, utility knife and a paring knife +1 on the magnetic strip. I just made one the other day http://i.imgur.com/Y48pfHm.jpg Nice work. Nice Shuns too. Thise dont look like shun. They look better. |
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Wusthof  My mother bought one about 5 years ago and used it for the first time cutting up turkey on Thanksgiving. She accidentally barely ran it across her finger and cut in deep. I mean real deep. The wound didn't even bleed for a minute or so. Required stitches. The knife has been used quite a bit and is still as sharp as it was when it was bought. |
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"It is explicitly advised not to use kitchen knives, as their basic structure is not designed to handle the kind of vigorous application used for assassinations and slaughter," the article states, further advising "to avoid troublesome knives, those that can cause harm to the user because of poor manufacturing." https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/2016/10/04/isis-calls-for-random-knife-attacks-in-alleys-forests-beaches/ |
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You can get a set of white plastic handled knives from Sam's or Costco. I recommend those. came here to post this. I've mainly used the cheaper knife sets like chicago cutlery. The sam's knives are much better quality than those and suit my needs just fine. |
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Don't buy a set. These guys are right. You end up buying knives you don't need, and sacrificing quality on all of them. If price is an issue, find a restaurant supply store near you, like a Bargreen-Ellingson, you can go there and buy inexpensive, quality knives. |
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What I've learned is not to buy a "Set" but get one really good chef knife and learn how to take care of it.
http://www.chefknivestogo.com/mashgy21.html This is the one I really want. Or this one http://www.chefknivestogo.com/kiswwadagy24.html |
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Here you Go:
This Tojiro DP 8 inch Chef's & pairing Combo $99 And then add this: Tojiro Honesuki, The ultimate utility knife $65 And if you want a bread knife / long meat slicer: Tojiro ITK 11 inch slicer and Bread knife, best on the planet $54 |
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recommendation: don't get a set. as stated by several people already, the only knife you need to spend substantial money on is a chef-type (7-10"), and you don't really even need that. what you will actually use is your chef (or santoku, or whatever fills this role), your paring knife, and kitchen shears. that's about 90% of all your kitchen knife work, unless you're a specialist. on top of that, you'll probably want a flexible boning/fillet knife and a long, serrated slicer (bread, meat carving). the thing is, you're never going to find those knives in a set. instead, you're going to pay a premium for random knives that you never use.
if i was starting from scratch and had $200 to spend on kitchen knives, i'd spend about $100 on a chef, ~$40 on a good paring knife, and the rest on cheap, replaceable stuff. and unless you have cats, go magnetic instead of the knife block. |
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We bought the J.A. Henckel set at costco for $100 - $150 6 years ago, and a work sharp. I make sure I keep them honed with a steel, before I use them.
People come over to our house and comment how sharp our knives are. I hit them on the worksharp once every 3 to 6 months. I use the chefs knife, and I have a smaller chefs knife we use the most. The carving knife gets used a lot on slicing meat or deboning chicken. The two paring knives get used a lot too. I NEVER use the Santoku knife. We also love the 6 steak knives, they have been great and very sharp. We have no place to mount a knife block that would not be annoying, and no desire to "show off" the knives like that. Our knife block is much preferred. For the money we paid, it's been great. |
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I bought this set a year and a half ago when someone started a thread about kitchen knives. 
They're very sharp, I use them a lot and I haven't needed to sharpen any of them, the most used ones could use a touch up on the edge though. They're not bad for the money and they're not made in China. http://www.cutleryandmore.com/wusthof-gourmet/slim-knife-block-set-p131680 |
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Quoted: Don't buy a set. These guys are right. You end up buying knives you don't need, and sacrificing quality on all of them. If price is an issue, find a restaurant supply store near you, like a Bargreen-Ellingson, you can go there and buy inexpensive, quality knives. I use my 7" Santoku for the vast majority of time. The larger chef's knife goes pretty much unused. |
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Here you Go: This Tojiro DP 8 inch Chef's & pairing Combo $99 And then add this: Tojiro Honesuki, The ultimate utility knife $65 And if you want a bread knife / long meat slicer: Tojiro ITK 11 inch slicer and Bread knife, best on the planet $54 Those look very nice. Do you have these knives yourself? How do you like them?? |