What is your favourite knife for food release?

[Chasingsharpness]

Which knife have you used which has had the best food release while still having good performance?

 

[MSicardCutlery]

You'll get most likely these 2 as the top answers. A Kippington hook grind, and a Bidinger B grind. As far as more conventionally ground blades go things will be more variable

 

[nickrut]

Takeda for me. Haven’t tried any s grinds though.

 

[T85]

BB/ Dalman 240! Pound for pound cutter!

 

[bahamaroot]

Takeda for me. Haven’t tried any s grinds though.

What do you think a Takeda has?

 

[nickrut]

What do you think a Takeda has?

Is that technically a s grind?

 

[bahamaroot]

It was Takeda that put the S grind on the map.

 

[tostadas]

Takeda cleaver hands down. The weight offsets the wedge grind.

 

[instantramen]

Takeda. I've tried about 4 and food release has been exceptional in all of them, with the larger ones being less wedgey as stated above.

 

[Heckel7302]

Is it an S grind if the hollow is forged, not ground?

 

[nickrut]

It was Takeda that put the S grind on the map.

Whelp… I’m slow.

 

[Heckel7302]

For further reading on the subject of food release, see this excellent thread.

https://www.kitchenknifeforums.com/threads/like-a-naughty-schoolboy.44589/

 

[Mytola]

Takeda nakiri, by far!

Yes, it wedges a bit in carrots and very hard produce, but I have other knives for that. Cutting cucumber and seeing the slices just falling effortlessly off the blade and onto the cutting board never gets old. Nothing sticks to it!

 

[blokey]

 

[Nemo]

Which knife have you used which has had the best food release while still having good performance?

Define "good performance".

 

[Jovidah]

Any knife that you use for draw cuts...

 

[Pie]

These things

~2017 heavy shoulder/heavy forged hollow “lefty” grind is the king.

 

[Matt Jacobs]

For me Nordquist designs S-grind. I have multiple and love them. Yes some cracking in carrots but the release is fantastic and his tips are some of the thinnest I have used in any knife. It handles onion and garlic as well or better than any knife I own.

 

[MowgFace]

Heiji for me. Though, I also have a Itinomonn KU that also likes to keep food on the board.

 

[Pie]

I guess if we’re taking absolute max food release..

CCK pork knife. But now we’re just being silly.

 

[cooktocut]

Any Chinese cleaver that doesn’t have a flat grind. Cuz let’s be honest… no knife is perfect at food release, there’s always going to be something that sticks every once in a while… and cleavers don’t care about things sticking to them.

 

[Reptyle]

I think @MSicardCutlery hit the nail on the head. While there is no such thing as a knife with perfect food release and cutting ability, Kipp's hook-grind is d@mn hard to beat.

 

[stringer]

Any knife that you use for draw cuts...

 

[deliyski]

1+ for Takeda if it's a balance between food release and "performance". Michio Ishikawa for food release and fun. It's a single bevel though and not for anyone. It will also wedge on dense veg n stuff.

 

[simona]

https://knifewear.com/products/suzu...le-bevel-santoku-165mm?variant=41778844729518
single bevel. I have the santuko, would imagine the nakiri is just as good. As good as my Takeda bunka.

 

[labor of love]

Probably Catcheside