@DaveInSoCal I’d actually buy them if they were, I have no idea how but my Steak Knives always disappear, I buy a 6 pack and then they all disappear and it’s just me, my two daughters and the dog,
So unless my dog is having parties when we’re not home or I have a ghost who loves steak
@cengland0 You can think of it as an aging Van-Gogh-the-Troll Pinocchio with a grey mohawk and widow’s peak, shortly after having a mental breakdown and telling a lie or two…
@wew The misleadingly named “good” Quikut knives are terrible. Flimsy metal, cheap plastic handles that let water in, and they don’t hold their edge. Avoid. I regret my purchase.
@frozenshades You can sweep your house with a robot and the touch of a button, turn off your lights and lower your blinds with your phone and then One day we’ll have knife block with a bluetooth knife sharpener built in where you can sharpen your knives with the touch of a button
I got the quikut last time and they aren’t even worth $10. Some of the blades were molded into the handles crooked, burrs, mold seams, just all around terrible.
Was going to be a last minute xmas gift (cause my mom has been useing the same 3 dull chipped knives for the past 20yrs) but I could give as a gift. Since she needed knives and could use a the block, I gave them unwrapped and said there are at leave a few serviceable ones that were sharper than what she had but they were garbage.
Might be good for your kid’s first college appartment though - if you hate them and want 'em cut their hands up trying to use these.
I got my mom the Kai set in the bright colors (purple for bagels, red for tomatoes) a few years ago because every knife in her house was serrated and 20+ years old. You couldn’t cut chicken. I use Japanese Global knives and take impeccable care of them - hand wash and immediately dry, sharpen regularly, hone, etc, so I know what a knife is supposed to do. Those Kai knives were DAMNED sharp for the price. She has been using them for five or so years now and they are still really sharp. I would recommend them for anyone looking for sharp inexpensive knives. I also own three of their scissors for fabric and they’re the best scissors I own. They rival Ginghers, and that’s saying something.
@Tygress I’ve heard good things about Kai but I will warn people here that the edge angle of Japanese style cutlery is steep. It produces a fine cutting edge but it dents and nicks easily when you hit bones, granite or other hard objects. For reckless abandon cutting people may be better served with something like a Wusthof ($$$) or Henkel ($$) that can stand up to a lot of abuse between sharpenings. I have owned too many cheap knives and I think they get dangerous when they lose their edge and require a lot of force to use.
I realize that what I’m about to say is really nit picky, but here it goes. One thing that drives me crazy about DH cooking is watching him struggle to cut everything with a paring knife. He gets frustrated and says the knife is crap, I say no, you just don’t bother to learn what knives work best for cutting which food. I did finally get him to start using the right knife for the tomatoes and for bread, but that’s all, he just keeps struggling away with the paring knife on everything else. So if you’re going to buy decent knives, invest a few hours in learning which one does what so your food prep experience can be less frustrating for you or anyone else who happens to be in your airspace.
I can’t match the Kai knives to the picture - which one is the square looking one? If there are two 6" utility knives, how come I don’t see two identical knives? I’m thinking there’s one utility, one paring, one citrus, one bread, one chef’s, and one sort of nakiri style knife (labeled “the big one” in a pic). Any help here?
Never mind - Amazon sells the same Kai set, accurately described (it’s a Santoku according to them) for <$45. That $98 estimate must be for one of the sets purchased as individual knives.
@matthew The picture doesn’t match the description, but thanks for the earworm! I wonder whether anyone has ever put the legendary car together. It wouldn’t run, but I’ve always wanted to see it.
I have good knives. I don’t need meh knives, but I like having TRASH knives. The quikut are decent trash. I lose knives at barbeques and picnics so the good knives stay in the house and the quikuts are basically disposable. This “deal” is lower priced than my dollar store (for comparable quality).
@Tadlem43 I’m wondering the same thing. The handles look nice in the pictures, and every place I can find them online has them between $40-$99. Tempting, but I can’t find a single review anywhere.
I might well buy the shitty $10 Ginsu Quikuts for the knife block and just throw out the six crappiest-looking knives to make room for the much better Kai Luna blades. Sounds like the wood block has the highest quality material and construction of all the stuff in the Quikut set anyway.
@lvlarx I’d wonder if the regular knives would fit in there. I’ve had ginsu knives before and they are super thin. Especially because most knife blocks don’t hold twenty knives.
@zenwave “Full tang” is not an indication of quality. It’s a sales pitch from people selling full tang knives. You can buy really crappy full tang knives and very good knives that aren’t (Global and Shun, for example).
You can also buy knives that aren’t forged that are great (see again Global and Shun, which are cut from sheet steel).
I got the 10 dollar quickcut thing here before with plans of just using the knife block for my knives.
Didn’t work because these knives are pretty thin (both front to back and side to side), but they’ve been handy to have. They’re not great knives, but when you just want something to cut a single thing and don’t feel like dealing with steeling and cleaning the knife, you don’t have to worry about any of that. Just use and throw in the dishwasher- it’s not a nice knife, and knowing that is liberating.
I was thinking of getting the Ginsu Quikit 20 Piece Block Set for my Mom as she is in need of a Knife Block and for $10 for 20 piece set isn’t a bad deal but then again a 20 piece knife set for $10 makes me wonder why Is It $10? What’s wrong with them? Do they break easy? Are they duller then plastic cutlery?
So has anybody bought the Ginsu Quikit 20 Piece Block Set before? Would you recommend me getting them?
@AiraCobra They’re extremely flimsy, and much smaller than you’d think. But they’re spectacularly shitty, so throw em in your dishwasher. If you need to do something serious, like cut a squash, find a real knife; I worry about them just snapping and causing massive bloodshed under stress.
If Harbor Freight sold steak knife sets, this Ginsu set would feel right at place. Use them for one job for $10, great. Use them a second time for that deck party with bad guests, and they’re as good as free.
Those Oster knives will be better than the garbage we have at work. And they come with a block so they won’t be rolling around in the drawer getting beat up.
I almost pulled the trigger on the Kai set because $30 is cheap for even cheap cutlery. But I’d only use them as a gift as we have already invested in pretty high end cutlery and have an assortment of odd old high carbon stuff in a drawer.
Speaking of drawers, if you are planning on storing knives in a drawer, check this out:
If you don’t care to see his banter about all the knives he has just skip to 8:25. He’s really wordy.
Bought the Kai Luna Set and absolutely love them. Been a long time since I’ve had good knives which was apparent after first use as I had 4 cuts.
The good side of that coin is these knive are SO sharp that you really don’t feel anything as the blade penetrates your skin.
Specs
Model: 03220, 109620.06, ABS7616
Condition: New
Good:
Better:
“Better-er:”
What’s in the Box?
Good:
1x 8” Chef’s Knife
1x 7” Slicer
1x 7” Bread Knife
1x 5” Boning Knife
1x 5” Santoku
1x 5” Carving Fork
1x 4.5” Utility Knife
1x 4” Fruit & Vegetable Knife
8x 4.5” Steak Knives
1x 3.5” Paring knife
1x 3” Bird’s Beak Paring Knife
1x 2.5” Garnishing/Decorating Knife
1x Wood Grain Storage Block
Better:
1x Chef’s knife
1x Bread knife
1x Slicer knife
1x Paring knife
1x Utility knife
Best:
1x 8” Chef knife
1x 3.5” Paring knife
2x 6” Utility knives
1x 8” Bread knife
1x 4” Citrus knife
6x Sheaths
Pictures
Options
Good
Whole lots of shit
Box
Better
knives
Box
Best
Big one
Box
WTF
If you say “rise up lights” real fast it sounds like you’re saying “razor blades” in Australian
Price Comparison
Warranty
1 Year Quikut
1 Year Oster
5 Year Kai
Estimated Delivery
Monday, Aug 8 - Wednesday, Aug 10
Awww. At first I thought you were selling the steak knives again.
@DaveInSoCal I’d actually buy them if they were, I have no idea how but my Steak Knives always disappear, I buy a 6 pack and then they all disappear and it’s just me, my two daughters and the dog,
So unless my dog is having parties when we’re not home or I have a ghost who loves steak
But where do the batteries go?
@shahnm The same place they always go…
@awk
/giphy raises hand
In the fridge!
@jml326
/giphy winner!
Someone killed the face today.
@cengland0 You could think of it as Pinocchio with a mohawk and a devil’s peak, shortly after having told a lie or two…
@cengland0 Looks like it’s sporting its own wood. Kinda like last Saturday’s face. But different.
@cengland0 They killed Kenny!
@shahnm @llangley Doesn’t actually look like that when you look at it on the home page with the transparent background converted to grey.
@cengland0 this kills the face.
@cengland0 You can think of it as an aging Van-Gogh-the-Troll Pinocchio with a grey mohawk and widow’s peak, shortly after having a mental breakdown and telling a lie or two…
Scariest carnivore = Ex-Wife
Uh, guys, it’s Saturday. Did you forget? Where’s my bundle?
Shouldn’t these be “meh,” “meh-er,” and “meh-est”?
@mcanavino Meh, Mehhhh, and Mehhhhhhhhhh
Quikut used to be a brilliant knife. Is it still?
Not to be racist, but I’ve been buying the colored knives lately.
@wew They prefer to be called African-American knives.
@wew see my comment below…or is it above. They are garbage, go up to at least ‘better’
@wew I bought the Quikut set before. They’re just OK, in a slapdash use very seldom way. I still have them out on my counter.
I have nicer knives stored elsewhere.
@therealjrn uhhhhhhh…that sounds a bit spooky
@RedOx Agree - I bought that set last time it was offered and they are terrible.
@wew I should have you over for dinner sometime.
@wew The misleadingly named “good” Quikut knives are terrible. Flimsy metal, cheap plastic handles that let water in, and they don’t hold their edge. Avoid. I regret my purchase.
@therealjrn I’m not sure about the way you use ‘for’.
Already have a nice set of 4 star J.A. Henckels. Don’t know what better knives I should get.
@cengland0 Probably not these… they just wouldn’t cut it.
/giphy rimshot
@cengland0 https://smile.amazon.com/ZHEN-Japanese-Layers-Damascus-8-inch/dp/B00H2HDLQE/ref=sr_1_1?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1517075231&sr=1-1&keywords=zhen+japanese+gyuto
Needs more bluetooth
@frozenshades You can sweep your house with a robot and the touch of a button, turn off your lights and lower your blinds with your phone and then One day we’ll have knife block with a bluetooth knife sharpener built in where you can sharpen your knives with the touch of a button
@AiraCobra What happens in the year 2525?
@therealjrn
@cengland0
I got the quikut last time and they aren’t even worth $10. Some of the blades were molded into the handles crooked, burrs, mold seams, just all around terrible.
Was going to be a last minute xmas gift (cause my mom has been useing the same 3 dull chipped knives for the past 20yrs) but I could give as a gift. Since she needed knives and could use a the block, I gave them unwrapped and said there are at leave a few serviceable ones that were sharper than what she had but they were garbage.
Might be good for your kid’s first college appartment though - if you hate them and want 'em cut their hands up trying to use these.
@RedOx I also bought them and they are junk.
@RedOx Fibrox from Victorinox are very affordable, good knives that don’t need a of care.
Great for someone who just wants to cut stuff and not worry about 7x folded steel or whatever.
Nope / Noper / Nopest
crap crapper crappiest I think is the actual terminology
Please please please do not buy the cheapest set. I bought one and it’s not worth $10.
@brochenzo Yeah-- bought a few sets. Deployed one at our AirBNB rental in NY, gave my brother a set. Worried a guest will cut their hand and sue me.
You can never have too many knives
I got my mom the Kai set in the bright colors (purple for bagels, red for tomatoes) a few years ago because every knife in her house was serrated and 20+ years old. You couldn’t cut chicken. I use Japanese Global knives and take impeccable care of them - hand wash and immediately dry, sharpen regularly, hone, etc, so I know what a knife is supposed to do. Those Kai knives were DAMNED sharp for the price. She has been using them for five or so years now and they are still really sharp. I would recommend them for anyone looking for sharp inexpensive knives. I also own three of their scissors for fabric and they’re the best scissors I own. They rival Ginghers, and that’s saying something.
@Tygress I’ve heard good things about Kai but I will warn people here that the edge angle of Japanese style cutlery is steep. It produces a fine cutting edge but it dents and nicks easily when you hit bones, granite or other hard objects. For reckless abandon cutting people may be better served with something like a Wusthof ($$$) or Henkel ($$) that can stand up to a lot of abuse between sharpenings. I have owned too many cheap knives and I think they get dangerous when they lose their edge and require a lot of force to use.
I realize that what I’m about to say is really nit picky, but here it goes. One thing that drives me crazy about DH cooking is watching him struggle to cut everything with a paring knife. He gets frustrated and says the knife is crap, I say no, you just don’t bother to learn what knives work best for cutting which food. I did finally get him to start using the right knife for the tomatoes and for bread, but that’s all, he just keeps struggling away with the paring knife on everything else. So if you’re going to buy decent knives, invest a few hours in learning which one does what so your food prep experience can be less frustrating for you or anyone else who happens to be in your airspace.
Stir whip, stir whip, whip whip, stir…
I can’t match the Kai knives to the picture - which one is the square looking one? If there are two 6" utility knives, how come I don’t see two identical knives? I’m thinking there’s one utility, one paring, one citrus, one bread, one chef’s, and one sort of nakiri style knife (labeled “the big one” in a pic). Any help here?
The Costco link has a picture of the back of the package, listing the knives.
It looks like the ones pictured are utility, bread, Asian utility, chef’s, citrus, paring.
Never mind - Amazon sells the same Kai set, accurately described (it’s a Santoku according to them) for <$45. That $98 estimate must be for one of the sets purchased as individual knives.
https://www.amazon.com/Kai-Essential-Knife-Sheath-Silver/dp/B073DTTZH2/ref=sr_1_3?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1517032303&sr=1-3&keywords=kai+luna
…Am I missing something here? Can you imagine how expensive a car would be if you bought the pieces individually? I’m still tempted though.
One piece at a time? It wouldn’t cost you a dime
@matthew The picture doesn’t match the description, but thanks for the earworm! I wonder whether anyone has ever put the legendary car together. It wouldn’t run, but I’ve always wanted to see it.
@OldCatLady They have! I think a Cadillac repair shop built it after the song, and gave it to Cash. /image one piece at a time car
@OldCatLady It exists!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Piece_at_a_Time
Today’s writeup made me really laugh.
You guys are such cut-ups!
in for the good love Ginsu seems like a “steel” of a deal with block included must be six bucks to ship so well done team meh.
I have good knives. I don’t need meh knives, but I like having TRASH knives. The quikut are decent trash. I lose knives at barbeques and picnics so the good knives stay in the house and the quikuts are basically disposable. This “deal” is lower priced than my dollar store (for comparable quality).
Looks like Costco used to sell the Kai set for the same price.
http://www.costcoweekender.com/2017/05/kai-luna-hammered-6pc-knife-set-costco-1080815.html
I will cut you, just not with these so-called knives.
Are the Oster’s decent?
@Tadlem43 I’m wondering the same thing. The handles look nice in the pictures, and every place I can find them online has them between $40-$99. Tempting, but I can’t find a single review anywhere.
@demonbane And I don’t see anyone commenting on them here (which is weird…they comment on everything!). If you find anything, please let me know!
I might well buy the shitty $10 Ginsu Quikuts for the knife block and just throw out the six crappiest-looking knives to make room for the much better Kai Luna blades. Sounds like the wood block has the highest quality material and construction of all the stuff in the Quikut set anyway.
@lvlarx I’d wonder if the regular knives would fit in there. I’ve had ginsu knives before and they are super thin. Especially because most knife blocks don’t hold twenty knives.
Doesn’t look like any of these are full tang… ?
@zenwave “Full tang” is not an indication of quality. It’s a sales pitch from people selling full tang knives. You can buy really crappy full tang knives and very good knives that aren’t (Global and Shun, for example).
You can also buy knives that aren’t forged that are great (see again Global and Shun, which are cut from sheet steel).
At this price none of them are any good, anyway.
@craigthom I’m sure there are full tang knives made of crappy steel, but the balance you get is much better, so I’d prefer ft with good steel.
Since my last court appearance I can’t have anything Sharp
@Viper1 Their TVs aren’t that good anymore, so you’re ok.
I’ve got the cheap set and I’ve been very satisfied
@SaintO Oooh, you’re the one.
I got the 10 dollar quickcut thing here before with plans of just using the knife block for my knives.
Didn’t work because these knives are pretty thin (both front to back and side to side), but they’ve been handy to have. They’re not great knives, but when you just want something to cut a single thing and don’t feel like dealing with steeling and cleaning the knife, you don’t have to worry about any of that. Just use and throw in the dishwasher- it’s not a nice knife, and knowing that is liberating.
I was thinking of getting the Ginsu Quikit 20 Piece Block Set for my Mom as she is in need of a Knife Block and for $10 for 20 piece set isn’t a bad deal but then again a 20 piece knife set for $10 makes me wonder why Is It $10? What’s wrong with them? Do they break easy? Are they duller then plastic cutlery?
So has anybody bought the Ginsu Quikit 20 Piece Block Set before? Would you recommend me getting them?
@AiraCobra I don’t have them but read through the comments. The general consensus seems to be it’s a fair price if you need 20 shitty knives
@AiraCobra They’re extremely flimsy, and much smaller than you’d think. But they’re spectacularly shitty, so throw em in your dishwasher. If you need to do something serious, like cut a squash, find a real knife; I worry about them just snapping and causing massive bloodshed under stress.
@AiraCobra They flex immensely and unsafely, and rust very easily.
Good = Trash
Better = Mediocre
Best = “German stainless steel, Made in China”
If Harbor Freight sold steak knife sets, this Ginsu set would feel right at place. Use them for one job for $10, great. Use them a second time for that deck party with bad guests, and they’re as good as free.
Those Oster knives will be better than the garbage we have at work. And they come with a block so they won’t be rolling around in the drawer getting beat up.
/image haggard-dippy-birch
/giphy haggard-dippy-birch
music playing…I stabbed the Panda, but I did not stab the Polar Bear.
I almost pulled the trigger on the Kai set because $30 is cheap for even cheap cutlery. But I’d only use them as a gift as we have already invested in pretty high end cutlery and have an assortment of odd old high carbon stuff in a drawer.
Speaking of drawers, if you are planning on storing knives in a drawer, check this out:
If you don’t care to see his banter about all the knives he has just skip to 8:25. He’s really wordy.
@tweezak
/image wood drawer knife block
Have fun cleaning those Kai ones
what a trifecta of meh…
Bought the Kai Luna Set and absolutely love them. Been a long time since I’ve had good knives which was apparent after first use as I had 4 cuts.
The good side of that coin is these knive are SO sharp that you really don’t feel anything as the blade penetrates your skin.