Each kitchen knife serves a distinct purpose. Paring knives and boning knives are used to achieve very different ends, as are bread knives and steak knives. But beyond silhouette, the steel from which ...

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Gyuto chef's knife made with pattern-welded steel forged from broken bandsaw blades and k720 steel. The heat treatment achieves a hardness of 60 to 65 on the Rockwell scale after tempering at 200°C ...