Kitchen Knife Review: MAC 10-inch Chef Series

Stats: Blade: 250mm long; double-bevel edge; stainless molybdenum steel Handle: western-style (no bolster); Pakka-wood Weight: 229g Price: $70 discounted ($120 standard)

Knovember continues with a look at another recent knife acquisition, a MAC gyuto. I’ve seen this knife described as “a slab of metal with two pieces of wood stuck to one end,” a description […]

That’s not a knife—THIS is a knife!

Something of a follow-up to Falquan’s wholly entertaining, informative and useful (but otherwise totally crap) advice on blade usage in the kitchen here. Since many of you may be sitting at home or work, your fingers trembling with the urge to slice, chop and pare but your stomachs turning at the thought of those aforementioned […]

Abecedarian Artistry

Life sucks. And then you have to chop onions.

There’s little that is more tedious with regard to preparing and cooking food than all the chopping, slicing, dicing, smashing, thrashing, binding, grinding, thrusting, groaning, moaning and screaming.

And if you’re not doing all those in your kitchen, you’re doing it wrong…

…with your knife.

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