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Originally Posted by brdwygurl
You may want to look at the Victorinox 40520 Fibrox 8-Inch Chef's Knife (amazon sells it). I purchased it based on recommendations from America's Test Kitchen and the positive reviews on amazon....it's a GREAt knife for a reasonable price. Victorinox also sells other knives as well, depending on what you are looking for.
In my experience the block knife sets aren't worth it. I really only use a couple of the knives (chef's, paring) and the rest are a waste.
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My brother-out-law is/was a French chef. Actually, a pretty damn good one...bringing a couple of restaurants here up in stars/chefs hats and helping score one as best regional in one of our biggest wine-growing regions. He's my cooking hero, and sometimes mentor (mostly on food perspective, making me a culinary Francophile
). His knives, taken everywhere (incl. restaurant to restaurant), are Victorinox. He doesn't like my Furi knives because of the all-metal handles - they get slippery when the going gets messy - and he's not fond of the lighter weight of them.
The Victorinox...quite exy, aren't they?