Cuisinart Triple Riveted 11-Piece Savor The Good Life Forged

Product Review

These knives are perfectly weighted and balanced for optimal control when cutting a variety of foods. High-carbon stainless steel blades provide precision and accuracy. Stainless steel rivets secure the full tang blade to the ergonomically designed handle. Set Includes: 8-inch chef knife, 7-inch Santoku Knife, 5-1/2-inch serrated utility knife, 3-1/2-inch paring/Santoku knife, four 4-1/2-inch steak knives, all-purpose kitchen shears, sharpening steel, and natural wood block. Hand-wash only.

Product Features

Set includes: 8-inch chef knife, 7-inch santoku knife, 5-1/2-inch serrated utility knife, 3-1/2-inch paring/santoku knife, (4) 4-1/2-inch stamped steak knives, all-purpose kitchen shears, sharpening steel, natural wood block
High carbon stainless steel blade for precision and accuracy
Stainless steel rivets secure the full tang blade to the ergonomically designed handle perfectly balanced for comfort and control
Perfectly weighted and balanced for optimal control when cutting a variety of foods
Hand wash only

Customer Reviews

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Decent, Affordable, distantly handsome, March 29, 2012

Scott Reed (Bloomington, IN USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Cuisinart Triple Riveted 11-Piece Savor The Good Life Forged Cutlery Set (Kitchen)

First off the steak knives should be pretty much ignored. They exist, they match, and I guess they would work ok (though they are non serrated, which is fancy pants, but you have to actually know how to use a fine edge steak knife (google it) or you'll ruin the blade). The key focus of this though are the real knives (and the bread knife). Those are not the thick heavy steel you might normally associate with high end forged blades. The weight is somewhere in the middle between truly high end blades and decent stamped blades. This isn't a bad thing, certainly a lot of professional chefs laugh at the overly heavy knives "prosumers" use. Balance is good at just above the bolster for the chef, and main Santoku, and an inch in the handle for the paring. That is textbook what it should be, though personal tastes differ. Edges are sharp but not overly so. They are definitely consumer grade knives. (As an aside "real" knives (which incidentally have solid plastic handles as the pretty riveted...Read more