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• High Carbon, stainless steel blades are hand finished in Switzerland by skilled craftsmen
• Special tempering process is used to resharpen over and over again
• Each Victorinox knife is stamped from ma single sheet of metal
• The blade is then hardened, tempered, ground, polished, etched and finished
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 19.75 inches | | Product Width:
| 6.75 inches | | Product Height:
| 1.5 inches | | Product Weight:
| 3.75 pounds | | Package Length:
| 21.2 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.8 inches | | Package Height:
| 4.2 inches | | Package Weight:
| 3.7 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 12 reviews |
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11 of 11 found the following review helpful:
Great knife setJul 17, 2009
By T. Simons
This is a great set of kitchen knives at the price. Forschner Fibrox knives have been top-rated by a lot of different groups, including Cook's Illustrated; I liked them even before I knew that, just because of the "Victorinox" stamp on the blades, just like my childhood Swiss Army Knives.
These knives handle beautifully and cut amazingly well; I've bought five or six of the "paring' knife in this set over the years (my dog likes to chew the handles up, for some reason). When I wanted to upgrade to a full set of kitchen knives and get a honing steel, I got this set, and it was a perfect purchase: the boning knife made dismembering my first whole chicken an almost comically easy process (although the directions in the Joy of Cooking helped too).
The knives are light and somewhat flexible, and they're made with stamped rather than forged steel, but they still function excellently despite that -- they give forged function at stamped price.
Drawbacks:
Some people may find the largest knife in this set, the 10" Chef's knife, a little big and a little lightweight for the size -- a slightly heavier, slightly shorter knife might be a little bit more easy to use.
The set also comes with a portable "knife bag" which is probably useless unless you're part of a traveling chef's road show, but if you're using a magnetic knife strip or buying a non-traditional knife block (like the Kapoosh brand knifeblocks, though the 10" chef knife might not fit into those), and don't want the wooden knife block most other knife sets come with, this set gives a great selection of excellent-quality basic kitchen knives at what I found to be an unbeatable price. A perfect choice for a first knife set if you don't want a wooden knife block for whatever reason.
EDIT: After having used these knives for about a year, I have to say that everything above is still valid, but they do dull a little quickly -- you might want to grab an electric knife sharpener to keep them well-honed. Alternatively, if you want to teach yourself how to hand-sharpen knives, these would probably be a good set to practice on.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 A decent set with some questionable choicesJan 23, 2012
By JmanGTA
I bought this for culinary school last September so I've had lots of time to really evaluate the set.
chef knife - I'm a 6' 200lb guy with big hands and I find this knife unwieldy. 10" is just too big for my taste and I think many people would find it clunky. 8" would have been a much better size for the majority of buyers. The quality of the knife is fine, the edge comes sharp, has decent curvature for chopping and steels well and is easy to resharpen on a stone.
paring knife - too long for a paring knife. It extends an inch further than you want for most paring operations (peeling, turning). It's nearly big enough to be called a utility knife. Luckily I also bought the 3 piece Victorinox paring set, which has a shorter paring knife. The knife quality is fine again but why did they choose this length?
boning knife - this would be classed as "stiff", which is great for stuff like beef, veal and lamb. For chicken it's ok. For fish it's fairly useless. You need flex to fillet and it's not long enough. Get a longer, full flex knife if you need to do fish. It sharpens well, holds an edge somewhat well. I'm not amazed by this knife for butchery work.
bread knife - great edge for bread. This one would actually benefit from being 2" longer, whereas the chef/paring above are too long. A little more curvature would have been useful too. A pretty good knife for slicing bread, trimming sandwich crusts, etc.
carving - pretty decent and reasonably good length. Longer would be better but it's acceptable. Good edge and good geometry for it's intended use.
steel - works fine with these knives, a bit short especially for the carving knife. Watch it with the longer knives.
the roll - it's light, the pockets for the knives are just ok. Paring knives fall out while some other knives are too hard to slip in. It has a few pockets inside for spoons, peeler, etc. You can't expect much for a roll that basically comes free with the knives.
So overall, chef and paring are overly long whereas the bread isn't long enough. The carver is acceptable, the boning knife is maybe too stiff for broad use. A semi-stiff would be a good compromise since most people don't need a full stiff boning for beef but do need some flex for chicken and fish.
The knife quality is excellent for the money, some of the knife selection is questionable. If you are comfortable choosing each knife I would suggest that instead.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Top quality and a good priceMay 25, 2010
By William J Shinnick
This set of chef's knives and steel was just the right number of items for our needs. Well made, very sharp and easy to look after. Fitted our existing knife block and the included roll was sold at a profit.
Recommended.
4 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Great cutlery set.....Dec 24, 2009
By Sonia Zuniga
"beadie"
A very good cutlery set....recommended not only by Cook"s Illustrated as well as a very
good culinary institute!!!!!
Best ever cutlery!Jan 19, 2012
By Lacey
Great, impressive, high quality cutlery set. Comes wrapped in a felt role making it easy to put away so the pesky roommates won't get into them and injure themselves!
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