A good chef’s knife is a central player in your kitchen lineup. Most chefs will tell you that you should have a Western blade for methodical chopping and a Japanese-style knife for more delicate prep.

Walk into any kitchen store and you'll see walls lined with specialty knives. Boning knives, fillet knives, cleavers, Santoku ...

After testing 20 sets and 70 kitchen knives, our shopping editors found the best kitchen knife sets for every budget, cooking ...

If you ask pretty much any professional chef, “what’s your most essential kitchen tool?” they’ll probably tell you it’s a sharp knife. Our Test Kitchen pros confirm that a good chef’s knife is among ...

Certified kitchen knife nerd Scott Heimendinger used a robot arm on multiple chef’s knives to collect 100,000 data points about which blades cut most efficiently. He’s ranked them from best to worst.