The Quikening

The “Quikut” and “Ginsu” brands are under the same company. Who knows why they choose to put some of their knives under one banner and some under another. You’d think, since Ginsu is presumably better known, that they’d call everything a Ginsu. But maybe there are dedicated Quikut fanboys out there.

“Quikut” is presumably a portmanteau of “quick” and “cut” though neither word is spelled correctly. And we’re not sure what would make one knife kut quiker than another. Do Quikuts kut quiker than Ginsus?

To test how quik these knives can kut we made a GIF:

Honestly, for a set of knives this cheap it seems like an impressive display. We don’t go around slicing into pieces of paper on the daily, but we’re pretty sure most knives in our cupboard wouldn’t be able to do it. And they certainly wouldn’t be able to do it so quikly.

On the other hand, don’t most knives come out of the box very sharp? Isn’t part of what makes some knives superior to others not how quikly they can kut but how long they are able to hold their kutting edge?

Maybe we should make a GIF in the style of the film Boyhood. We could follow the same knife through its young life from the day it emerges from the packaging, through its first time being sharpened, until it leaves its home in a yard sale. Then you’d be able to witness the true value of these knives, not just a snapshot of how they perform at their sharpest.

We’ll get back to you with that updated GIF in a few years. (It’s not going to be quik.)