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Brand: Calphalon
Category: Kitchen

List Price: ~~$299.99~~
Buy New: $249.95
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

12 reviews
Sales Rank: 48013

Shipping Weight (lbs): 10.6
Dimensions (in): 16.6 x 10.6 x 7.1

MPN: KNS08V
Model: KNS08V
UPC: 016853026968
EAN: 0016853026968
ASIN: B000AAT6ZK

Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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Love them! October 9, 2005
5 out of 7 found this review helpful

I would disagree with the previous review. I loved these knives! My wife even uses them and says how easy to hold they are. The bolster design work perfect for holding a knife the correct way up at the top of the bolster where the blade begins. If you hold them by "pinching" there and letting the handle rest in your hand it's very comfortable.
They seem very well balanced.
The design of the layers of steel looks great. They really give a destinct look to these knives.
I'll be buying more of this set.

2 out of 5 stars

Aesthetically pleasing, but too heavy September 27, 2005
50 out of 62 found this review helpful

I must say I'm a big fan of Calphalon. I own several pots and pans from both their tri-ply stainless steel and non-stick contemporary series and I love them and highly recommend them.

I bought these knives assuming that their quality in cookware would translate into cutlery. I ended up returning them after several days... here's why.

PROS:
Absolutely beautiful knives that are well crafted with very rigid stainless steel (more rigid than Henckels and Wustof). The Santoku knife is a nice addition. I loved that the steel construction went all the way to the end of the handle. The steel provided with the set supposedly actually SHARPENS the knives as opposed to only HONING them. Who knows.

CONS:
1. Very heavy. Compared to the German knives, these are not agile at all and can be painful on the wrists especially when using the very substantive chef's knife. I thought the weight would add to the cutting ease but it really did not. On top of that, the weight was unevenly distributed making the knives feel unbalanced.

2. Short handles. As you progress to the smaller knives, the handles got annoying short. This just compounded the weight issue.

3. No sharpness advantage. I ended up purchasing the Henckels twin cuisine set of knives as they were similar in design (and also has a Santoku in the set!) to the Katana series. I noticed that even though the "VG Japanese steel" was supposed to be even sharper and stronger than the German steel, I felt like the Henckels knives were still sharper and cut through everything with much more ease.

4. Slightly harder to clean. The integrated bolster design makes it slightly hard to clean since any sponge you use against the blade tends to snag on the sharp end of the bolster. All the other German knives have a rounded bolster. This is by far the least important con.

All in all, I think the Henckels Twin Cuisine knife set is extremely similar in price and design, and additionally does not suffer from the deficiencies of the Katana Series knives.

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