Best Chef’s Knives – Consumer Reports

Finding a stellar chef’s knife amid all the options available isn’t easy. A quick online search yields hundreds of choices, ranging from $10 to $1,000 or more. Can you get away with buying a cheap knife? Would it be enough to simply buy a knife set? And what do you really get when you splurge on a dedicated chef’s knife?

To answer those questions, CR developed an expansive testing protocol, looking at eight different 8-inch chef’s knives in our labs with panelists and with our in-house expert in ergonomics. I brought all eight knives home to my kitchen and used them for everything from mincing herbs to deboning chicken thighs.