The world is not lacking for inexpensive kitchen knife sets—they’ve long been a staple of late-night infomercials and homeware bargain bins alike—but top-quality cutlery is much harder to come by.

In 1986, Olympia’s Bob Kramer began sharpening knives for a living. In 1992 he started making them. And now, his beautiful, intensely sharp, extremely coveted kitchen knives are considered the best in ...

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Blenheim Forge is a steel workshop in Peckham, London. They create a range of traditional hand-forged kitchen knives. Each knife is made entirely in-house; the blade is first laminated and folded ...

The relationship between home cooks and their knives is a funny thing. Every home cook needs them. But few bother to invest in quality and maintenance. Indeed, the manufacturers of quality knives ...

Chef Shintaro Matsuo filleting a yellowtail fish with a knife made in the nearby city of Sakai, at his restaurant in Osaka.(Saad Sayeed, AFP) Blacksmith Yoshihiro Yauji pulls a piece of glowing metal ...

Unlock to see our ratings and compare products side by side The LamsonSharp Forged Rosewood is part of the Kitchen Knives test program at Consumer Reports. In our lab tests, Kitchen Knives models like ...

Takefu (Japan) (AFP) – Blacksmith Yoshihiro Yauji pulls a piece of glowing metal from the forge in a Japanese village, continuing a tradition dating back centuries to when the region was renowned for ...