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 Ginsu 04817 International Traditions 14-Piece Knife Set with Block, Natural List Price: Sale Price: $25.70 You save: $24.29 (49%)  Eligible for free shipping!Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours DescriptionMany associate Ginsu knives with the product’s kitschy infomercial from the ‘70s that begins with a karate kick to a watermelon and proceeds with a demo of these knives cutting through just about anything in the house...  |
 Victorinox 40520 Fibrox 8-Inch Chef's Knife List Price: Sale Price: $24.72 You save: $15.28 (38%) Eligible for free shipping!Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days DescriptionThe R H Forschner by Victorinox Chef's Knife features an 8-inch blade that is 2-inches wide at the handle. High carbon, stainless steel blade is hand finished at Victorinox in Switzerland by skilled craftsmen... |
 Top Chef by Master Cutlery 5-Piece Chef Basic Knife Set with Nylon Carrying Case List Price: Sale Price: $35.63 You save: $44.37 (55%) Eligible for free shipping!Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours DescriptionOfficially licensed Bravo TV Top Chef 5-piece Knife Set (7-inch Santoku, 5-inch Santoku, 3.5-inch Paring Knife, Sharpening Stick and Nylon Carrying Case). Knives feature Ice-Tempered Stainless Steel Blades w/ precision cut sharpened cutting edges and hollow grounds to reduce sticking and laser-etched Top Chef logos on each blade... |
 Wusthof Classic 5-Piece Studio Knife Set List Price: Sale Price: $94.99 You save: $237.01 (71%) Eligible for free shipping!Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days DescriptionThe wusthof classic 5-piece studio set is the perfect size for the smaller kitchens. Taking up a little more than 4-Inch on your counter it is the perfect solution for studio apartments, small condos or vacation and motor homes... |
 Victorinox 46892 Fibrox 3-Piece Chef's Knife Set List Price: Sale Price: $67.95 You save: $38.05 (36%) Eligible for free shipping!Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days DescriptionNothing is worse than going to cut with your cutlery, and having the handle slip around in your hand. To combat this potential for injury, Victorinox has created this Fibrox 3 piece knife set. The Fibrox® handles are textured and provide a firm grip, even when wet, and do not slip or slide around... |
 Shenzhen Knives Chef Series. Ceramic Knife Set - 3-piece (6" Chef's, 5" Slicing & 3" Paring) List Price: Sale Price: $49.99 You save: $20.00 (29%) Eligible for free shipping!Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours DescriptionShenzhen Ceramic Knives are a perfect complement to your steel knives. While you will still need to use your steel knife for every-day, heavy duty cutting, Shenzhen Knives are perfect for slicing fruits and vegetables and other precision cutting tasks... |
 Bundle Monster Complete Series - 9 piece Ceramic Cutlery Knives Set (6" Chef's, 6" Santoku, 4" Utility, 3" Paring, and 1 Peeler) White Knife Blade and Sheath Sale Price: $39.75 Eligible for free shipping!Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours DescriptionBundle Monster brings you the latest in cooking technology, a 9 piece ceramic cutlery set. This brand new set has all the pieces to get you started in the kitchen and comes packed with: (1) 6" Chef's Knife with Sheath, (1) 6" Santoku Knife with Sheath, (1) 4" Utility Knife with Sheath, (1) 3" Paring Knife with Sheath, and (1) Ceramic Peeler... |
 Top Chef by Master Cutlery 9-Piece Knife Set List Price: Sale Price: $75.59 You save: $124.41 (62%) Eligible for free shipping!Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours DescriptionOfficially licensed Bravo TV-piece Knife Set (7-inch Santoku, 5-inch Santoku, 6-inch Fillet Knife, 8-inch Chef Knife, 8-inch Bread Knife, 3.5-inch Paring Knife, Shears, Sharpening Stick and Butcher's Block)... |
 Wusthof Grand Prix II 3-Piece Chef's Knife Set List Price: Sale Price: $154.25 You save: $129.75 (46%) Eligible for free shipping!Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days DescriptionA 3-pc. set that includes the most useful knives for the starting chef: a 3.5-in. Paring Knife, 6-in. Sandwich Knife, and an 8-in. Cook's Knife. From the Grand Prix II Series, this variation on the Wusthof Classic features high carbon stainless steel blades (honed by hand and easily resharpened), permanently bonded to molded pebble-grained, slip-resistant handles... |
 Pure Komachi 2 Series 8" Chef's Knife, Fuchsia List Price: Sale Price: $8.23 You save: $4.27 (34%) Eligible for free shipping!Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days DescriptionBrilliant Monochromatic colors make the pure komachi 2 series a real eye-catcher. But all that fun-loving color has a serious purpose too. The color-coding makes it easy to choose the right knife for the job... |
New chef looking for a good cheap knife set?
I am 19, and starting to learn the way of being a chef after several years of looking for someone to teach me. My mentor says I need to get a good knife set, but I don't have a lot of money (I am sure many can relate). What types of knifes do I need? And where would be a good place to get them? Thank you for your time
It would really help if you have posted your approximate budget though.
If you were a home cook I'd say 3 knives that'd cover 99% of home cook cutting would be chef's knife(8-12"), small paring knife(3-4") and a serrated bread knife. You can add boning or slicer, depending on the type of meat you cook.
Depending on what your mentor is asking from you you might need other types of knives. Although the three I mentioned above still cover most of the cutting works.
If you can avoid abusing chef's knives I'd highly recommend looking in to Gyutos, Japanese chef's knives, they are somewhere between German and French chef's knives in terms of blade geometry, but thinner and lighter. You'll appreciate that during long shifts. Plus they are much better cutters compared to typical western knives. You don't have to pay a lot for those either, Tojiro DP line is quite a budget knife. Here, bunch of gyuto reviews and photos - http://zknives.com/knives/kitchen/ktknv/type/gyuto/index.shtml
Few money saving tips, basically ignore marketing BS designed to get more money out of you...
1) Forged vs. stamped - As knife marketing tells us good kitchen knives have to be forged, and have full bolster and tang. NONE of that is true. E.g. Stamped Globals are much better performers than most of the forged mainstream kitchen knives.
I bought Forged and stamped versions of the same chef's knife from Global, and I didn't get anything but extra weight and spent more money on forged knife.
2) Full tang - Another BS, Katana swords and bowie knives are not full tang, yet they can cut through armor and leather, so I really doubt you need more strength than that in the kitchen.
3) Bolsters make sense only on narrow boning knives to protect your hand from slippage, but on other wider knives blade choil area does the job, bolster just makes sharpening a nightmare.
4) Beware of the knives that do not specify the steel. As usual that is junk, 420 or worse steel.
Kitchen knives steel FAQ - http://zknives.com/knives/kitchen/misc/articles/kkchoser/kksteel.shtml
All the major western brands(Wusthof, Henckels, Messermeister, Sabatier, etc) use X50CrMoV15 or very similar to it steel and harden it around 54-56HRC and you will be very hard pressed to find any noticeable difference in cutting performance or edge holding.
For the same reason Victorinox Forschner knives are really good buy, they're cheaper, but similar steel.
There's a lot more about picking good kitchen knives here - http://zknives.com/knives/kitchen/misc/articles/kkchoser/index.shtml
