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I will eventually try one of the knives that people have recommended here. But I still think for $70 for an 8-piece set, these are really good knives. Sure, they don't meet the average standards for this group, because you expect them have fancy features like Damascus steel to make them look...

I would agree that nobody here buys KitchenAide knives but they are familiar with them nevertheless. I'm pretty sure that what they have done is clad a central cheap core of carbon steel with stainless. They used to do things like plate carbon steel knives really heavily with chrome or nickel...

These are pretty good knives for the money if you buy them directly from China. The problem is the vendors that import them, lie about their provenance. They aren't Damascus steel, Japanese, or just about anything in the ads. They are layered stainless steel on top of carbon steel. This makes...

I would like to check out the Victorinox knives. My roommates vast packrat collection did include a lot of very expensive $100+ per blade knives, but only the ultra expensive Japanese ones he had were better than these cheap and cheerful ones. As for consistency all three of these including the...

It's almost like there is some need to spend impressive amounts of money in order to feel like you've bought good knives. So several companies have jumped in with these cheap and cheerful knives that are way better for $90 shipped as a eight piece set than anything less than hundreds of...

On this thread we've established that you can buy a set of 8 of these knives on Alibaba for $28 plus about $45 shipping. I know this, because I did it. The set of knives I got this way were identical to the "Bokashi" or "Vertoku" branded knives except that they had no logo on them. Sure, they...

So out of curiosity I ordered a set directly on Alibaba. The whole set of eight knives is $23 in China. It cost another $55 including tax to have them shipped to Seattle. This is about one third as much as my first set from a vendor even more sketchy than Vertoku. It's a little cheaper than...

With shipping in single order quantities, the price is more like $90 for a set of eight knives. It's still cheaper than a set of barely ok Kitchen Aide knives, and they are considerably sharper than that. If you can afford to order a few hundred at the time and wait for three months for them to...

So I have found a seller on Alibaba, that has a larger set that what I bought (2 more knives, and the two extra ones look like they'd be useful) for $87 including shipping. The Chinese companies are completely honest about what they are, they are "laser pattern, Japanese-style knives"

My set didn't even come from them. The company I bought them from switched to even fancier looking and far more expensive Chinese knives with side rivets on the handles (not that it really matters) and Vertoku came up on a search when I wanted to buy similar knives for my sister. They never came...

My impression is that it is intended to encourage sliced items to fall off the knife.

The Damascus texture is just rolled or stamped on i doubt that they use lasers and it serves the same purpose as the circular scallops some knives have. I have bought much more expensive german and french knives that were kind of terrible. I've never tried Victorinox, they would be the same...

So they are just not expensive enough, apparently, it hardly matters how well they seem to work. I have used considerably more expensive knives that didn't take such a nice edge as these.

They were cheaper than a set of lousy kitchen Aid knives, and they work just fine. They are really, really sharp and nicely balanced. I'm happy. What would you recommend for six knives at that price?

I paid $100 for my set.