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 ...

They say you’re either in your bed or in your shoes, so they’re both worth splashing out on. In the kitchen, the same applies to your knife. But, says Ben Lippett, it’s not as if one size fits all ...

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 ...

The deeply rounded belly on Zwilling's rocking santoku blade looks quite different from others, but it works just the same. What impressed me most in testing was just how sharp this santoku is. It ...

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.

I wish I’d done this 10 years ago. I rarely buy new knives. In my previous life as a professional cook, I learned to rely on my Chinese cleaver skills for most of my kitchen prep, and I have a nice ...