Edge & Block is a small test kitchen built around one stubborn belief: most home cooks own too many knives and too few good ones. A single sharp chef's knife outperforms a block of dull ones.

We buy the knives we review, use each for weeks of real cooking, and put them through repeatable tests, slicing tomatoes, breaking down chicken, and checking how the edge holds. We report the flaws as plainly as the strengths.

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