Cuisinart Advantage 12-Piece Knife Set
- Color safety coating makes sure you don’t cut the cake with the same knife you used to fillet the tuna
- Includes 8" chef’s knife, 8" slicer, 8" bread knife, 7" santoku knife, 6.5" utility knife, and 3.5" paring knife, plus sheaths for each one
- Its only drawback is that it calls itself a “12-piece” set but half of those pieces are knife sheaths, not knives
- The #1 selling cutlery set at Amazon, so it must be doing something right
- Model: C55-01-12PCKS
If they're this ugly, they must be great.
How can you find new and amazing culinary experiences every time you eat out? Order the grossest-sounding thing on the menu. Get the marshmallow curry or the beet-flour pancakes or the lavender peppercorn pudding sandwich. Because anything that could overcome such a high initial level of repulsiveness enough to even make it onto the menu must be delicious.
Speaking of initial repulsiveness, these knives, huh? But their garishly colored coating hasn’t stopped them from becoming Amazon’s top-selling cutlery set.
Think about how turned off you were when you saw them just now. And still enough people bought them to send them to the top of the charts. Think about how ridiculous you’d feel using these to prepare and serve at your next dinner party. And still they have a spectacular 4.7 average rating over 1,000 reviews. Think about having to look at that green and that purple for years to come. And still they inspired user praise like “the greatest addition to my kitchen” and “knocked my socks off!”
If you wanted to pass off some crappy knives, you’d try to make them look fancy. Fake ebony handles, some kind of pseudo-woodgrain on the blades, and of course, a big bulky knife block. The outlandish coverings of these Cuisinart knives are the raiments of supreme confidence, the screw-you-if-you-don’t-like-it look of the truly excellent or the truly insane. When you’re a 4.7 sitting at #1 in your field, you can wear whatever you want.
