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Right at present, at this very second, someone in the globe is about to purchase a 16-slice knife set for someone that they beloved. Only if they actually, truly loved this person, they would pause, consider the activity they were about to take, and put away their method of payment.

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Y'all see, we home cooks tin can't stand clutter in the kitchen. Ataxia breeds confusion. Ataxia impedes cooking efficiency. Ataxia means more things that nosotros accept to maintain, clean, and shop.

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This is why every time you gift us a Star Trek pizza cutter, a pair of onion goggles, or pretty much anything on lists like these, we tend to practice that thing where we force a grin and say "Oh absurd, this is so cool," and secretly wonder to whom we can promptly re-souvenir this ultimately useless piece of cooking crap.

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And this sentiment is peculiarly true—and perhaps most powerfully intense—when information technology comes to the 16-slice knife ready. To give yous a fuller picture, here'southward what goes through our heads when we unwrap the thing.

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Holy f*ck, Aunt Edna. Here I am thinking, past the size of the box, that you were giving me a leg of Jamón Ibérico. Only now, instead of beingness in possession of wondrous amounts of impeccable pork, I own a cheese knife, a breadstuff knife, something called a utility knife, 2 pairing knives, and—oh, no way—8 steak knives? When the hell am I going to accept eight people over for steaks? The but way I would be able to beget that scenario is if I somehow re-sell this $800 set for full cost to some schlub who doesn't understand that 90 percent of these knives are completely useless. And now I'chiliad feeling terrible, because you're and so well-intentioned, Aunt Enda, and always generous, only so, so, so, so, and so, so misguided.

You merely need one knife in the kitchen, actually, and that knife is a chef's knife.

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A chef's pocketknife tin can cut pizza. A chef'due south knife tin slice through onions quickly so that you won't have to humiliate yourself by donning goggles. A chef's pocketknife tin cut cheese (surprise!). A chef's pocketknife, if it'due south abrupt enough, can slice through breadstuff with ease. A chef's pocketknife is a utility knife.

Okay, yes, a pairing knife is handy for little kitchen tasks, such every bit removing the stem nub out of a tomato plant or peeling the rind off citrus, simply a chef's pocketknife tin can perform these jobs, too, if non in slightly different ways.

You likewise don't need different sizes of knives. In that location's no reason to own an 8-inch chef's knife and a half-dozen-inch chef's pocketknife if an 8-inch chef's pocketknife feels more comfortable in your hand. You don't need a 4-inch utility knife and a 3-inch utility knife because you lot don't need any the hell a utility pocketknife is.

You also absolutely don't need that behemothic honking knife block that comes with the set up either. To use habitation cooks, countertop space is vital and knife blocks are similar cookie jars, microwaves, and other one-trick-pony cooking gadgets in that they gobble up vital prep space.

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A high-quality chef's knife, hung on a simple magnetic strip, are actually all a seasoned home melt ever needs—or fifty-fifty wants. Even a top-on-the-line, super-durable, always-sharp, carbon steel chef's knife, like the Zwilling J.A. Henckels Bob Kramer Carbon Steel Chef'due south Knife costs hundreds of dollars less than that pocketknife set. Victorinox also sells a pretty dang good one at an fifty-fifty less expensive price.

This is all to say that good home cooks likely already not only know all this, but they already ain a slap-up chef'due south knife. Buying them some other is well-intentioned, just, really, redundant.

And so, Aunt Edna, as much as I honey your kind and gentle spirit, next yr how well-nigh that leg of Jamón Ibérico?

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Paul is the Food & Nutrition Editor of Men's Health. He's also the author of two cookbooks: Guy Gourmet and A Man, A Pan, A Plan.