Kiwi brand knives

Hi there,

Yes i have used kiwi brand knives. they are great. i use the same cleaver for the past 5 years. you can sharpen them forever. which is the biggest plus with them, they are also light, strong and comfortable to work. you can use one for hours with no problem.

i have actually found your post since i was looking for this brand now to get a set for my friends.

they are a great buy.

Tomer.

I love these little knives, i pick one up every 3 or 4 weeks for about $4 and run it into the ground. if you take care of it at home it would last as long as you want and because they're so thin, you can literally shave with them. Even when they're ready for the garbage, you can run them over a steel and they'll take a good 15 mins of abuse after that.

Anyways this guy sums it up http://www.cheftalk.com/t/59498/kiwi-knives

however i would only get the santoku style knife, the larger one has absolutely no balance. There is an image of the one you want in the thread i linked.

GO BUY ONE! or three

Most interesting, three first time posters all promoting the same product, must be really great, don't you think?

Spam or not, better than you might think for the price (really, they are priced as disposables).  Nothing to go out of your way for, but if you need a reasonably sharp knife in a hurry for dirt cheap and you happen to be in an Asian market, they will do just fine.  I have a couple kicking around in the bottom of a drawer acquired while traveling before I put together a good travel knife set.  They are better than what you get in most time share units.  I think this is called damning with faint praise.

Actually, we use these for slicing spam - not a knife

No home should be without one!

Laugh, my sister sent me one for Christmas a couple years ago and it gets used with some frequency.

Mmmm.  Spam musubi.  Nectar of the gods.

I'm not laughing at you. I'm laughing because you were being funny, in addition to telling the truth.  Funny.

I haven't tasted spam in over 25 years.  No need for me to cut it.

As for kiwi knives, my comment was just meant to affirm what Pete had to say. I won't repeat the possibility of justified faint praise.  Already done!

Laughing at me is perfectly acceptable as well.  Won't be the first or the last time

I have never used them but know people that do and they love them and they are dedicated home cooks.  I've heard the steel seems to sharpen well and holds up better than many European steels.

I use Kiwi Brand knifes for probably 15 years. I bought about  12, it was about 2$ in China Town. I have major brand expensive knifes to, mostly got it as a gift. 99.9% I use Kiwi Brand. It is lite, thin, easy to sharpen, very ergonomic. I need to buy more as I gifted away to felow cooking enthusiasts and I lost one. I just have one now, will buy 20, I'm sure I can make many people happy with them.