@sarahgavigan: The knife that makes you a better cook doesn't exist. I own knives I carried home from Japan and knives I've had for twenty years, and not one of them improved my cooking. What a good knife does is stop fighting you. That's the whole promise. It's smaller than the internet wants to sell you, and it's still worth it. So how do you choose? You hold it. That's the entire review. I get sent a lot of knives. If you never see one of them here, it isn't because it's a bad knife. It's because it didn't fit my hand. And a knife is only as good as it is sharp. If you want knives like these in your kitchen, you have to learn to sharpen. It's not hard. It just takes patience. Angle, grit, reps. I wrote the whole thing out today. Every shape and what it's actually for, bunka, nakiri, deba, yanagiba, all of it, plus my stone setup and exactly what to buy. Link in Bio -> OBSESSED on Substack

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