Ceramic Cutting Knives

A ceramic chef s knife can act as an all purpose blade performing the duties of everything from a paring knife to a carving knife.

Ceramic cutting knives.

A ceramic knife should not and will not replace a chef s knife says erkkinen. At over 50 it s a lot of money for three knives but the quality is well worth the extra money. These knife blades are usually produced through the dry pressing and firing of powdered zirconia using solid state sintering. Also known as zirconia.

To compare the ceramic knives we have used steel chef s knives from kai wüsthof robert herder and our own eden kanso aogami. Nothing cuts through cold butter like a ceramic knife it s like cutting through hot butter hiroshi shima executive sushi chef at sushi roku in los angeles ca adds they are great for bartenders. In the set are a 6 inch chef s knife a 5 inch serrated tomato knife and a 3 inch paring knife. Ceramic kitchen knives are an exclusively fixed blade alternative to the standard steel kitchen knife.

However remember that ceramic knives are quite hard and that means they generally aren t very flexible. Most early knives barely had handles while some had their dull end wrapped in animal skin or some other protective material. A ceramic knife is a knife designed with a ceramic blade typically made from zirconium dioxide zro 2. Our premium product is the kyocera advanced ceramics 3 piece knife set.

You still may not want to substitute them for knives that need to bend and flex a bit like a boning knife. The knives we have tested for this test we have used ceramic knives by kyocera who are the biggest player in the market for ceramic knives. Next to that we have also tested ceramic knives from other manufacturers.