The Holy Grail of Knives
I'm 73 years old and have been cooking (at home, not professionally) since I was in college. Over the years I've tried dozens of knives from dozens of makers in a variety of styles (German, Japanese, American, you name it) in search of the one, perfect knife that would feel like a natural extension of my hand and arm and that I could trust that somehow it had read my mind in terms of what I wanted it to cut and how I wanted it to cut. I stumbled across MaANNKITCHEN's paring knife about a year ago and found it to be a blessed revelation/revolution -- why the hell had I been working with the dinky traditional paring knives all these years? So, even though I was skeptical about its size and weight, I decided to give their massive MK9 Chef's Knife a try. And man, am I ever glad I did. I've been using it daily/nightly for a couple of month now. As huge as it is, it never feels big or heavy in my hand -- it moves effortlessly. Yet that size lets it cut faster and more efficiently -- I seem to finish my prep work in a fraction of the time I used to do. I've been using my honing steel on it, but I feel like I'm just going through the motions in doing so -- the thing just seems to keep its edge no matter what I throw at it. My wife is happy to know that my habit of buying an expensive new chef's knife every couple of years is finally over -- with the MK9, I have at last found the perfect one!
