With a culinary degree and nearly 20 years of food-writing experience, Jason Horn has spent his entire career covering food and drinks. He's Food & Wine's resident knife expert and has tested hundreds ...

Experimenting with weird blade geometry: nakiri and straight razor mash up. Right handed single bevel, Nitro B steel blade, ...

In the last 20 years, Japanese knives have become more and more popular with home cooks. While French food prepared with German steel was the standard of fine dining in the United States for many ...

Liv Dansky has worked for Food & Wine since 2019 as a recipe tester and developer and, more recently, as a writer. Her work can be found across brands like Southern Living, Real Simple, EatingWell, ...

If you’re a well-versed home cook, you’ve likely heard of a Chinese vegetable cleaver before. Perhaps, you even have one in your cutlery drawer. But you may not be as familiar with the nakiri bōchō.

Prep work is a necessary part of any recipe, but it can feel like a slog without the proper tools. Christopher Kimball's Milk Street Nakiri knife elevates your chopping and dicing skills to ...

Which Nakiri knives are best? A good knife will make food prep more manageable and efficient. There is nothing worse than having a blunt knife when you’re trying to chop an onion or some cherry ...

Made In already had its knife game on lock. There was a chef’s knife, a santoku knife and a paring knife and serrated blade set — basically every knife an amateur chef would ever need. The internet’s ...

Japan’s long-standing tradition of crafting high quality blades extends beyond katanas. The country produces some of the world’s best kitchen knives. Professional chefs and home cooks alike tend to ...

While the nakiri is a traditional shape in Japan, these days you’re more likely to see a hybrid version of the knife with a Japanese blade shape and a Western full-tang handle where the blade extends ...