Greetings from UK

[Assynt]

Hello everyone,

I’m a new member in the UK. Middle age squeeze between and busy job and three young children. Been enjoying cooking for them more, discovered this forum whilst learning to sharpen and falling into a rabbit hole about Japanese knives!

I have bought a Yoshikane SKD Gyuto 210, based on the generally positive comments about them on this forum. Hopefully a balance of a knife I can sharpen, but without the reactivity of white steel. My wife wasn’t impressed with the onions after I sharpened our old Sabatier which has carbon steel! So this seems like a nice balance of a really well made knife which still works fine with everything in the kitchen.

Thank you, this is really informative forum.

 

[wasacook]

Welcome! It is so nice to hear that cooking for your family got you looking at knives. Cooking for loved ones is always such a lovely act!

From what I have read over the years I think you will be happy with the Yoshikane. It is a very good choice and has been getting very popular. I hope to see you around here learning more about all the fun!

 

[Benuser]

Welcome aboard!

Glad to hear about Sab lovers.

We happen to have a huge archive. When approaching it, rather than using the site's search engine, you may consider Google's 'site:'-function. E.g. search

site:kitchenknifeforums.com term1 AND term2

 

[Assynt]

Thank you both - yes the Yoshikane seems really good. It has heft so the cutting feel is not totally alien, but the edge is really fine so slicing vegetables and fish has been a new pleasure all of its own. The SKD steel also means I don’t need to worry about tainting onions…

Thank you for the search tip - a huge amount of information here!