Finding a well-balanced, sharp, and versatile Chinese cleaver was surprisingly difficult; many we tested were too big, too heavy, and not nearly nimble enough. However, two stood out: the compact ...

A Chinese vegetable cleaver can not only do everything a typical Western chef’s knife can do, but it can also easily scoop up chopped ingredients and peel vegetables with its square-tipped, thin blade ...

The Chinese cleaver, when compared with the slim, pointed knives used in Western kitchens, may appear to be a crude and brutal object. A rectangular slab of metal with an upper edge extending straight ...

Ah, the meat cleaver. Bucking the tapered and svelte designs of traditional blades, these husky boys of the knife world were developed for one singular purpose — to serve as the machete of the kitchen ...

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