Babish High-Carbon 1.4116 German Steel Cutlery, 6.5" Santoku Kitchen Knife

These are the MOST underrated knives ever. I bought my first babish knife like 3 years ago, I loved it so much I couldn’t believe how sharp it was and how long it stayed sharp. Chopping anything became fun. Later I bought the steak knives, and just now I bought this set. I can’t explain how great they are. And the price for such great knives is just unbelievable. I’ll literally never ever get any other brand idc even if it’s a Gordon Ramsey knife.. babish is the greatest knife of all time. Plus it has a very minimalistic, sleek, cool design. Nice handling, and sharp! You know what they say.. all great things come out of Rochester NY lol. Babish is a native if I’m not mistaken

I bought this as a cheap throwaway knife that i could beat up and practice sharpening for my nicer henckel knife set. Little did i know i'd like this knife more than my $100 henckel knife. So much so, that i'm going to start replacing that set with Babish's knives. The prices of Babish have gone up a little, but still an insanely good deal with tremendous quality. It's been 2 years and it's still the sharpest knife i have.

I just moved into a new home and am replacing the essentials that my old roommate used to own. Obviously, for anyone who cooks at home, you need a few decent knives. Now, my background and current job is working in bars/restaurants. I work on the bar side of things, but have definitely been around commercial kitchens where cooks come in with their daily-driver types of knives. Sure, you have high end restaurants / chefs who own and use $300+ knives (cost per knife), but for most people working in kitchens, they're looking for affordable, good quality knives they can use daily.This knife seems to fit that bill. Granted, it's a serrated bread knife, so it has limited uses. Personally, at home, I'm never slicing bread. All the bread I purchase comes pre-sliced unless you're talking about kaiser rolls or sub style buns. But, my primary use for a bread knife at home is slicing fragile fruits and vegetables like tomatoes and citrus, and cutting sandwiches in half. At my bar we've been using the same restaurant supply store brand serrated knife to prep our bar fruit for 5 years. It was probably a $10 knife at the very most. It still works well, and it has definitely seen a ton of use. Never sharpened once.So, for myself at home, I wanted to buy a good quality bread knife that wouldn't break the bank. I didn't want to go cheap like $10, but didn't want to spend over $50 either. I saw this on Amazon and it fit the bill and had good reviews, so I ordered it. I really love how this knife feels. Great weight balance, and feels quality. It came out of the box super sharp, and I've had a chance to test drive it on slicing tomatoes for sandwiches, and it's super accurate. You can go paper thin if you wanted, and it won't "warble" and start going sideways like some poor quality serrated knives can do. I then made a sandwich and cut it in half. It cut through all of the meat, veggies, and bread like butter. Seriously, like two passes and the sandwich was perfectly cut with nothing dangling and hanging on, it was like a laser cut.I did a bit of research after buying this knife, and saw some reviews out there saying Babish knives will lose their edge fast. That's fine by me, that will happen to any knife, that's why there are wetstones and sharpeners out there, so that's not a,n issue for me. Also, I want to note that I didn't know who Babish was before buying this knife, so I'm not purchasing this as a fanboy or anything. I bought it purely on the price, design and reviews.The reality is, is that you can buy a whole knife set with a wood block for about $50-$80. So, spending $24 on just one knife might seem dumb. But, for 99.9% of home cooking you only need a few knives. A good santoku, a bread knife, and arguably some decent steak knives (depending if you serve your steak pre-cut or not). Those entire knife sets come with about 8 knives you'll probably never need to use, and trying to save a few bucks by buying the whole set will compromise the quality of all the knives.All that being said, I'm happy with my purchase. I also bought the santoku knife this brand offers. Again, I don't mind sharpening knives. I've done it A LOT. If, for whatever reason, these knives can't hold an edge for like a week of general use over time (like some other reviews online say), I'll probably come back here an update my review. But, I just don't see it happening based on the quality of materials used and my week's worth of use on it so far. Are there better knives out there? Of course. Do you really need them as a home cook? Probably not. If you're on a budget and just want a few good knives, I would recommend this brand for sure.

Let me guess: You were looking for a nice knife set that looked good, not crazy expensive, goes nicely with all your stainless steel kitchen appliances?Well you can stop browsing. Congrats, you found it. Just buy it. Stop debating between this and another set. Just add to cart. You're done.

I had these on my wish list for the longest time, since they first came out. I had already purchased the chef's knife and love it. The steak knives keep their edge so well they're easy to hold and they cut so smoothly through a variety of foods. Sometimes I use them to slice thin slices of cheese and they perform well

Nice knife, but I didn't notice that it didn't come with a blade protector. Makes storing it in a drawer difficult. They could have offered one as an add-on.