In what order should I buy my kitchen knives?
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In what order should I buy my kitchen knives?
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Here’s my experience as someone who spends a lot of time in the kitchen and have quite some chef and cook friends.
If you cook often, the most important kitchen knife is no doubt the chef’s knife, so it should be the first knife you buy. A typical chef’s knife is 8 inches long, but if you have small hands, a 6 inch may be easier to maneuver and help to reduce pressure on your hands and wrists. You can also go for a santoku in place of the chef’s knife. Invest in a quality chef’s knife that feels natural and comfortable in your hands, as you’ll spend quite a lot of time with it.
Next, get a paring knife for peeling and more precision cutting purposes.
Some people actually reach for the utility knife more often than the chef’s knife or the paring knife, as they’re more flexible for various tasks (peeling, cutting small vegetables and fruits etc), so you may want to consider getting it first/in place of the parer.
From top to bottom: the chef’s knife, the utility knife, and the paring knife. Image courtesy of Shun .
If you consider steak knives kitchen knives, then get some. You sure will need them if you’re a meat lover.
Not a knife, but it’d be useful to have a duo-grit sharpening stone , with one side being coarse (under 800) and the other being fine (1000 up) to keep your knives sharp. Also, get a block or a magnetic strip to store and protect your knives, and you’re good to go.
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2. Pairing
3. Serrated
4. Slicer
5. Boning
6. Cleaver
7. Filet (flexible)
8. Oyster
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bonus: kitchen shears.
*only caveat I will make is that before you begin curation get a good steal and some sharpening stones to keep things in order as your collection grows.
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Your core knife set consists of these knives in this order:
Chef’s knife or santoku, as you said. I find an 8″ chef’s knife much more comfortable and useful than a santoku because of the curved bladed, but YMMV.
bread knife, 10″ serrated. Its serrated edge is useful for a lot more than slicing bread. It’s great for tomatoes, for example.
paring knife
kitchen shears
vegetable peeler. They come with both straight and serrated blades. Serrated blades are more flexible, so get that one first.
flexible boning knife, around 6″.
That’s a complete set. Anything past that should be considered specialized for tasks you do a lot of, not a basic part of your kit.
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the only knife I “bought” is an 6.5- 7″ santoku it replaced my french chef knife and I’ve never regretted it. It does everything, slicing veggies, meat, fish … everything. I’m a 6′ (almost) bloke and I find bigger just gets in the way unless you are a pro or chop cowbones
All the others (and there aren’t that many) I’ve found when the big one gets in the way.rather than helping. it’s very personal, everyone does things differently – you’ll know when you need it (whatever “it” is).
I have a full size bread knife (handy if you like to slice your own bread or make cakes) also have a smaller one for cutting breadcakes buns etc or sweet malt-loaf.
We have a “posh” carving knife if we have visitors and a little veggie knife really that’s the wife’s but meh it’s in the drawer.
And that’s about it. I find “sharpeners” do anything but, You’ll want a whetstone or two (far more controllable with a little practice). 500 grit for gettin…
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I’d recommend a good boning knife and a shorter (no more than 5″) utility knife that then doubles as a paring knife next. A cleaver would come in handy, but your 7″ blade can do that with a decent whack.
Think about what you cook most often; what do you need to do most? Also, for myself, I am small, with small hands and not a lot of upper body strength, so big knives, nice as they are, aren’t for me.
Truth to tell, all you really need is a good utility knife, a boner and a heavier blade that doubles as a cleaver and a serrated blade for breads and such. If they’re good knives, all you have to do is keep them sharp and they’ll serve you well for half a century. Mine have.
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A chef’s knife always tops the list of the most important kitchen knives and therefore the first you should invest in because it serves as your primary all-purpose knife. It’s your workhorse and probably the one you’ll use most of the time. You can use it so slice, chop, dice, mince, make julienne cuts, disjoint large cuts of meat and even smash garlic. An alternative is the santoku knife , which serves the same purpose but is used with an up-and-down chopping motion.
The other two knives you should invest in are utility and paring knives .
See: Knife Block Sets Buying Guide
There are other types of knives for specialized function, which you can later add to your knife collection, but as always, think about how you cook and what knife you would most likely use often.
See also: The Complete Guide to Buying Your First Knives
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I also have the Wusthof Santoku, which I use for almost everything. Other than a bread knife and a paring knife, I hardly use anything else.
Many people end up with entire sets of knives and only use one or two, so save the cash and buy something else.
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