Your Expert Guide to Knives, Sharpening & Kitchen Blades in the UK
If you’ve ever lost forty minutes scrolling Amazon.co.uk at some ungodly hour, you’ve almost certainly found yourself caught between a santoku knife and a chef knife. Both claim to be the one blade you truly need. Both look impressive hanging on a magnetic strip. And both will, if you let them, cost you considerably more … Read more
If you’ve ever found yourself hacking at a butternut squash with a chef’s knife that feels roughly as nimble as a garden spade, you already understand the appeal of the western style santoku knife. At its core, a western style santoku knife is a hybrid blade that marries the flat-edged, wide-bellied profile of the Japanese … Read more
There’s a knife sitting in most British kitchen drawers that does everything adequately and nothing brilliantly. You know the one — vaguely sharp, vaguely heavy, bought in a supermarket set sometime around 2017, now relegated to cutting onions and opening post. It works. But it doesn’t sing. A Japanese santoku knife is the antidote. What … Read more
There’s a moment every home cook recognises. You’re halfway through a pile of courgettes, your old chef’s knife is dragging and sticking, and you think: there must be a better way. There is. It’s called a santoku — and once you’ve used a good one, you’ll wonder how you ever managed without it. The best … Read more