What have you been doing during lockdown, if not cooking up a storm in the kitchen? We’ve seen your posts. We’ve seen your updates. We’ve seen so much banana bread and sourdough on Instagram that we’ve had to loosen our belts just scrolling through it all. But you know what we haven’t seen? Much skill.

That sounds harsh, but it’s mostly true. With everyone’s favourite restaurants closed, we’ve had to resort to whipping up our favourite dishes from the comfort of our own homes. But you can’t make Bancone-standard pasta without the industrial-grade equipment. You can’t create perfect ice cream without professional, purpose-made help. And you can’t do very much at all without a good, sharp knife.

And yet, we persist with the same blunt choppers we’ve been slicing and dicing with for years. No more. If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that it pays to invest in the best — and that goes double for knives. The best part? You don’t even need a ten-strong set. Below, we’ve unsheathed the three versatile styles you need to sharpen up your kitchen skills.

What have you been doing during lockdown, if not cooking up a storm in the kitchen? We’ve seen your posts. We’ve seen your updates. We’ve seen so much banana bread and sourdough on Instagram that we’ve had to loosen our belts just scrolling through it all. But you know what we haven’t seen? Much skill.

That sounds harsh, but it’s mostly true. With everyone’s favourite restaurants closed, we’ve had to resort to whipping up our favourite dishes from the comfort of our own homes. But you can’t make Bancone-standard pasta without the industrial-grade equipment. You can’t create perfect ice cream without professional, purpose-made help. And you can’t do very much at all without a good, sharp knife.

And yet, we persist with the same blunt choppers we’ve been slicing and dicing with for years. No more. If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that it pays to invest in the best — and that goes double for knives. The best part? You don’t even need a ten-strong set. Below, we’ve unsheathed the three versatile styles you need to sharpen up your kitchen skills.

Invest in the best statement carving knife money can buy

Carving. It’s as much about showmanship as it is about gastronomy. So you don’t want to be left high and dry at the head of the table toting a big blunt knife that won’t even slice halfway through your Sunday roast. The carving knife is your big-gun blade — with the strength of a cleaver, the precision of a paring knife and the weight of the meal on its shoulders.

So it needs to do the job. Thankfully, we’ve never been let down by Blok Knives — especially this eight-inch, mosaic-pinned, tapered-tip carver. Blenheim Forge, too, make a cracking carving knife — a stainless steel-clad showstopper with an edge thinned to a micro bevel. Or, if you want to pull out all the stops, Savernake Knives’ ‘Extreme Slicer’ is inspired by carvers crafted for professionals, and its length will ensures you never saw — but rather glide through your meat.

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