Everyone Is Obsessed With This $3 Chef's Knife
When online supermarket Brandless debuted earlier this month, it caused quite a stir, racking up press coverage and social media attention, and for a good reason: every product it sells, from organic coconut oil to sets of soup bowls, costs $3. Its direct-to-consumer model means it only sells its generic label (no brands), hence its name.
Lately, word of the site's 8-inch chef's knife is making its way around the culinary community, with cooking experts asking, how good can a $3 knife be? (By comparison, Amazon's bestselling 8-inch chef's knife will run you 10 times that amount.)
To find out, Epicurious food director Rhoda Boone recently put the knife through the wringer, mincing herbs, chopping onions, and-the most important test-slicing infamously hard-to-cut tomatoes. (It passed.)
While she was impressed by the knife's rivets-the cylindrical studs that secure the handle to the blade portion-and the fact that its stainless steel blade extended the full length of the knife's handle, Boone said the utensil was too lightweight for her.
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"It would probably last a little while...the handle isn't going to fall off, which is the biggest issue with cheap knives," she said, adding that it's cheaper to buy the Brandless knife than to get a more expensive one sharpened. All in all, Boone recommended this $3 chef's knife as a backup or for stocking a vacation home.
Brandless also carries steak knives, paring knives, and serrated bread knives for three bucks a pop.
(h/t Epicurious)
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