Reddit reviews Victorinox Honing Steel Black Plastic Handle, 12-Inch, Combination Cut
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Mercer and wusthov are both fine knives, but if you want the most bang for your buck, you really should buy individually. That doesnt mean you cant get a nice matching set though. Copying and pasting this from a thread a few weeks ago.
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>The Victorinox ones are probably the best value around. Thats speaking as someone >who owns several hundred dollars worth of mostly Shun and Mercer knives.
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>All you REALLY need is a
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>Chefs Knife
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>Pairing Knife
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>to start with, those will handle about 85% of anything your ever need to do, but if you >want to expand i would get a
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>Boning knife
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>Bread knife
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>Slicer
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>And dont forget a honing steel.
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>And MAYBE a pair of shears.
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http://www.reddit.com/r/food/comments/1nbho7/baked_potatoes_i_made_last_night/cchbgh9
They wont come all together in a nice box, but no reason you couldnt get a nice block too and just wrap the whole thing...
For stones pretty much everything in the 400 - 2000 range can work with these knives and a honing rod.
As for the rod I would rather go with a known good brand like F.Dick or Wusthoff or Victorinox.
No you do not need a strop in the kitchen.
For me what works quite well is the combination of the Naniwa Pro 1k and after it sligtly dulls a fine cut steel like this one https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000XTP7MY .
Alternatively xou can also get a steel with 2 different cuts and use this like for example https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000MF2RTK.
Ar you forego the classic steels completely and use a ceramic rod which acts like a hard fine whetstone https://www.amazon.com/Idahone-Ceramic-Sharpening-Natural-Handle/dp/B01BUNEO0M