Winco Blade Chinese Cleaver w/wooden handle - blade 8 x3 ½ overall length 12 ½

So i have alwats loved watching martin yan of tge show Yan can cook and always wanted knife skills like his. That man can chopp at a hundred miles an hour and nit even look at what he's cutting. Well i found out the clever he uses is a chinese chef's knife and this one had great reviews and was dirt cheap so i pupled the trigger. Glad i did to! Yeah it came a tad dull but a few minutes on a soft arkansas stone with some soapy water fixed that. The spine was too square as was the part directly below the handle, but some sandpaper fixed that! I'm chopping carrots super fast, getting dozens of wafer this slices without any special effort and you can kind of see through them. With little effort I'm mincing onions so small that they mostly melt into whatever I'm cooking. They're smaller than the minced onions McDonald's uses. Plus I'm chopping them fast! Just using this thing has made my knife skills improve all the way around. This is not a butcher's cleaver! It is not meant to go through bones! The chinese name for tgis knife is "cai dao" which means vegetable cutter, or vegetable knife. This knife is the exact same function as a traditional chef's knife or santoku knife. It does however do more than those. This is the all purpose knife of a chinese restaurant and professional chinese chefs. From cutting, to garnishing, to tenderizing this knife does SOOOO MUCH! It does take a keen edge. If you don't know how to sharpen a knife with a stones then you need to learn. A butcher steel isn't for sharpening or honing, it's for edge aligning. Gonna buy a second one and give this one away as this was a knife i got just to try. I abused it as i was learning it so it's scratched up pretty good. This really is a premium piece of kit. I also have a mercer chinese chef knife with a santoprene handle. The blade stock is thinner so it's a touch flexible and this one is not. This is a good, stout knife, manufactured for years of use. Do not put it in the dishwasher! Good knives should never go in a dishwasher. Nor should they ever be submerged in water. Once done they shoukd be hand washed and cleaned. They'll last decades that way. The mercer has a more premium steel but a cheaper feeling handle. I love both but this one is a bit heavier and i enjoy it. I put them in the same category of quality and love them both equally but for different reasons.

Es un buen cuchillo, creo que está a la par con lo que promete.

Cheapest I can found! Other shops sell about 20 bucks plus tax.(and run out of stock!). Very sharp! Used couple of months, still sharp. The only drawback is too light, but I feel ok

Bought on a lark while on sale, thought it was a cheap experiment. Found out that it was actually a quality kitchen tool. This knife has become indispensible for all my Asian cuisine cooking, it is just as versatile as everyone claims. Came in a plastic bag, inside a thin cardboard sleeve where it still rests. Had a great edge out of the... sleeve(?) and can take and hold a wicked sharpness throughout a cook. I hone it every time I use it, just a couple quick swipes brings it right back to an edge that rivals my chef's knives at 5x the price. The one thing I was not expecting, was the weight of this knife. It's 13 oz. or 369g by the kitchen scale, which is about twice as heavy as any of my other knives. Having that much weight though is actually a good thing, as it's the weight of the knife that does the cutting and it makes doing prep work with this knife almost effortless. Chinese chef's knives use a down-and-away motion, and this knife will go through almost everything in a single stroke, meaning less tearing of the meat (which means more tender, juicy meat). The weight also means you have tons of control, as you really have to mean to move the knife to do it. That makes doing fine work like mincing garlic really easy. It's listed as a "cleaver", but it's really not that at all (and shouldn't be used as one!). This is the quintessential tool of any Chinese kitchen, the one knife to rule them all. Always hand-washed and dried, no signs of rust at all. The actual measurements as product received by me: Overall length 12.25in, Blade: 8in x 3 3/8in width, Handle 4.25in, Total Weight 13oz. Not sure where the product listing got their measurements from.

Compre en 189 pesos MXN , y esta increíble, note que tiene muchos comentarios positivos de USA y ninguno de México, y el resultado es el mismo. -Por el precio parece que seria de una calidad baja, PERO NO!! es muy buena calidad -Mi novia es Chef y me comento que conviene que el mango sea de madera, de esta manera no se resbala a la hora de cortar ( a diferencia del que es todo de metal, tenemos uno en casa y justo pasa eso) -Es pesado y ayuda a que picar vegetales o cortar carne sea más facil -Es un gran producto a un buen precio -Si se lo regalas a alguien seguro pensara que su valor es mayor a 500 pesos MXN