gyuto

An edge you keep — a chef's knife, gyuto vs German, and the stone that's half of it

The fifth and final record on the Kitchen shelf: the chef's knife. We weigh the thin Japanese gyuto against the forgiving German edge, place the makers — Misono, Tojiro, and Masamoto against Wüsthof and Henckels — and give the whetstone protocol the weight it deserves, because the sharpening is half the knife. The edge is the one thing on this shelf you keep by upkeep, not by use.

• ·kitchen tools
• ·chef's knife
• ·gyuto
• ·whetstone

• Durable
• Honest
• Future
• Less