A decent knife should be able to cut a tomato into small strips without applying pressure to the tomato or crushing it in the process of doing so. Therefore, Santoku knife variants such as the Haarko ...

Walk into any kitchen store and you'll see walls lined with specialty knives. Boning knives, fillet knives, cleavers, Santoku ...

Including a blade that’s "like a samurai sword." ...

Santoku knives are some of the most popular kitchen knives among professional chefs and home cooks alike. What makes a santoku knife so great? This type of knife features a thin blade, narrow spine ...

Sharon Lockley has over 20 years of experience as an editor and writer and has been contributing to Food & Wine since 2019. I use a sharp chef’s knife every day to slice, chop, and dice ingredients.

Knives have undergone something of an explosion in popularity over the past number of years. As home cooking has become a ...

Santoku are general purpose knives used traditionally in the Japanese kitchen. They differ from chef’s knives in style and are preferred by some, being generally shorter and wider than a chef’s knife.

With popularity comes proliferation. We enlisted chef Masayoshi “Masa” Takayama to evaluate the best of the expanding Santoku breed. He tested ten straight from the box (no additional sharpening ...