We tested 16 models—including ones from MAC, Tojiro, Victorinox, Zwilling, and Global—of Japan's popular multipurpose santoku knife to find the best.
is no slouch on either front. One of the most affordable knives we tested, Mercer's blade outperformed many knives that cost more than twice as much. For the price, you might as well grab one—it's the perfect knife for guests who want to be helpful in the kitchen, but whom you don't trust with pricier blades.Santoku knives have not been a part of Japan's storied blade tradition for long.
A santoku combines those qualities: The steel is usually hard , but the blade edge is often somewhere between a Japanese chisel design and a Western double-bevel. Today, you can also find a lot of santoku knives with an even double-bevel edge, from both Japanese and Western knife-makers. First, a santoku knife should be deadly-sharp right out of the box. I know—some knife experts out there are more than happy to get an otherwise excellent knife and put their own finishing touches on the edge to get it to peak sharpness, but those people aren't your average home cook. As much as I'd love for everyone to learn to, the reality is that it'd be a miracle if most home cooks had their knives sharpened by a professional even once a year.
I started my tests with a simple paper-slicing exercise to determine blade sharpness and weed out any that were too dull out of the box. Since we were looking for knives that arrived with truly sharp blades, we disqualified any that repeatedly got caught on or messily tore the paper. After all the subsequent testing with vegetables, meat, and fish, we repeated this test with the remaining knives, just to make sure none had lost their edge after a short period of use.
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