Of all the tools you need for cooking, the kitchen knife is perhaps the most important. There’s hardly a dish that doesn’t require slicing or dicing. Every kitchen should have several essential knives specialized for different tasks, from a versatile chef’s knife for everyday chopping and a paring knife for small-scale mincing, peeling, and trimming, to more specialized tools like the fish fillet knife and meat cleaver.
What is currently in your knife block. I have both the Wustoff set we received as a wedding gift, as well as several pieces from the Ethan Becker ESEE kitchen set, and some other orphans I have picked up over the years, like the Dan Eastland station knife I bought my wife several years ago for Christmas.
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