Looking for one of the best Japanese kitchen knives for $200. This is the one you are looking for. Yoshihiro makes one of the knives $200 knives I have used up to date.

The Tojiro Shirogami is possibly Tojiro’s best knife for carbon steel enthusiasts. It is sharp, very sexy, and budget friendly. It is one of those knives that is nearly perfect. A great knife for everyday use, as well as for those who like to learn more about carbon steel for Japanese knives.

Are you looking for the perfect knife to break down chicken or bbq beef or pork ribs? A honeski may be the knife you are looking for. I use mine weekly when I bbq baby back ribs, or when I break down chicken for my favorite chicken and tomato soup. Honeskis are very efficient at cutting around bone and in hard-to-reach places, and they very easy to sharpen.

Here is a break down of all the gear I use to restore vintage Japanese knives. I restore all of my knives by hand. This takes more time, but it is my way of bringing back working on knives by hand without using heavy equipment and machinery. This is something everyone can do.

If you are looking for a polishing whetstone that can give your knives a mirror finish, while not burning a hole in your pocket, the Kitayama 8K whetstone is likely your best best. I use this stone for all of my high end knives, and my sushi chef customers love the finish this stone puts on their yanagibas.

If you are looking for ways to set up your knife sharpening station, here is everything you need to know. You can go with simple like a brick you find in the back yard, or spend a bit of money for a really nice professional setup that every chef would envy to have. The key thing is you need to learn how to sharpen your knife.

It really is sad to see how Mac knives have completely fallen off the map. They once were regarded as one of the great Japanese knives that you can buy, but they have no updated any of their knives in decades, and it is impossible to find anyone who knows any details of importance about them. Such a shame

I got the chance to work with and design a knife with Olympian Joey Mantia. The 2022 Winter Olympics is going cap Joey’s career which encapsulates over 2 dozen World Cup Titles, which would make him one of the GOATs in the world of inline and long track speed skating. This was a very exciting project for me personally, as I was a short track speed skater. This is about how we came to work together, and I look forward to more collaborations like this one.

The Misono brand makes some great valued knives and the Misono Molybdenum is such an example. It is sharp, stable, aggressive cutting, and handsome knife. There really isn’t anything negative about this knife given it’s price point of around $100. It is as good and in some ways better than the Tojiro DP.

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After a decade of testing testing knife sharpening whetstones, and time and time again, I come back to the Naniwa Pro 800. Very very stones offer the speed and feedback this whetstone offers you. It is one of the best sharpening whetstones ever made. Period.

Buying the right sharpening and polishing whetstone is an impossible task when you have hundreds to choose from. I have test hundreds of whetstones over the years, and the Naniwa Pro 3000 is still the stone I turn to for my everyday sharpening and polishing needs.

If you are looking for the Japanese knife that is universally loved by all knife enthusiasts, this is this is the knife. No one can fault the Tojiro DP. It is the knife that every knife enthusiast knows about, and the knife that you should at least consider.

If you are looking for a carbon steel Japanese chef knife that will not break the budget, this one is something you should look at. It even has an octagonal handle and hammer marks.

If you use lots of Japanese whetstones, you may want a diamond plate to help keep them flat. Atoma makes one of the best that I use regularly for flattening my whetstones and for repairing chipped knives.

The Yaxell Mon is a decent Japanese chef knife with some compromises. See if it is the right knife for you.

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