Cutco Knives?

[grillmaster]

Anyone heard of em. Just wondering some young guy did a demo at my house didn't buy em. Just wanted see if any yall heard of em before and yer thoughts.

Chris

[TexLaw]

I've heard of them plenty of times. They are good knives.


TL

[Michiana Mark]

I have a pairing knife of theirs, along with a potato peeler and a pizza cutter. good stuff, knife easy to sharpen on a steel.

[Goat]

I have seen the demo also. If I did not already have good knives, I would probably have bought some of them.

goat

[Steve-O]

They are great. The steak knives are dishwater safe.

Buy the kitchen shears if you don't buy anything else. They will cut a penny and keep cutting.

Lot's of college kids sell these, so you can help them out. My daughter used to sell these, so I have seen them all and know a bunch about them just cuz I saw the demo about 100 times....

I have a set of Wustoff and I like the Cutco knives just as well

[droller]

http://www.vegsource.com/talk/pressure/messages/58097.html

Another opinion.

[david brace]

I have 2 Cutco knives that I collected along the way. I have to tell the truth and say that I have not used them at all in years, as others are my favorites... I might give them a whirl, tho.

DB

[bluejaybbq]

We have some. They are very good and very expensive. Funny how those two kinda go together.

[Steve-O]

http://www.vegsource.com/talk/pressure/messages/58097.html
Another opinion.

There are some replies to this post. It's very well presented. Just don't know how factual it is. Like anything else on the web. Not disagreeing with you. All I know is from experience. I'm not telling anyone to buy but here is what I know.

My daughter sold these three years ago. So I have a bit of a stake in this. Bias if you will. I own a set of cutco steak knives and Wustoff steak knives. The cutco stay sharper longer. I have never sharpened them. They cut a steak very easily. our family will choose a cutco over the wustoff if they choose a knife themselves.

I have to sharpen the wustoff knives about once a month. But they are very easy to sharpen and stay very sharp. But even if they are sharp, they don't cut a steak as easily as the serrated edge.

We have to wash the wustoff by hand. The cutco go in the dishwasher.

Now I have never had to sharpen a cutco, but they offer lifetime sharpening. Never experienced this... so I reserve the right to change my mind on cutcos....

Other than the steak knives, we own the kitchen shears. They are great. Very sharp and dishwasher safe. Owned them for 3 years, use them daily, and they are like new.

Now, all the other knives I own are Wustoff. Very nice knives. Keep an edge. Sharpen them regularly on a steel or stone. Can't complain about these. They are not dishwasher safe, but they are not hard to clean either.

For what it's worth.

[david brace]

Wow...thanks for providing that link, Steve-O...sure seems like they have it in for Cutco.

As you said, there are many things said on the internet that sound blustery and fact-filled, but they can just as easily be flummery (good word). So to research any of the other link's writers claims, you'd have to do a lot of research on steel manufacturing and knife standards, carbon composition, blah,blah,blah...But if one has the time, it sure is interesting. I have researched a few items like that, and sometimes come away with a clear answer, but other times, after 3 hours of clicking and reading, all I got out of it was bugged-out eyeballs.

DB

[grillmaster]

Thanks for all the info guys knew i could count on yall. I'm not in the market for any new knives at the moment i was just curios. But i will store this in the ol memory bank for later when i am and of course do some research of my own.
Chris

[droller]

Steve-O,
I hadn't heard of Cutco knives so I thought I would Google to see if any information came up for the forum member looking for information. The site came up and it's just another opinion, not mine, and I labeled it so. Just trying to help.

I have several brands of knives, and I'm not sure which I would suggest that someone buy. Use and purpose would dictate my recommendation in the end.

Some people do not deserve good knives, in my opinion. They don't know how to use them, how sharpen them, or how to take care of them. Moreover, they have no desire to learn these things. My wife, by the way, falls into this group, and she has her own knives. I don't think any of us would sugggest expensive knives to someone unwilling to care for them.

I value your opinion and I'll do some research to Cutco--maybe even buy one.

[Steve-O]

droller: Understand.

Interesting story. When we got back from Germany (25 years ago), our Wustoff knives were very new. My MIL came to visit when our first was born. On the second day she complained of here hands hurting. She had cut the $hIt our of her fingers on our new knives :!: :!: :!: She had some old dull ones at home that she was used to. Our new wustoff had such an edge, they would papercut your finger if you laid it on the blade!

Went to bass pro a couple years ago and looked at an uncle henry. The clerk said "don't put your thumb on the blade". Apparently some folks test the sharpness that way. But a sharp knife will cut you real fast.

Long winded way of saying, I have no vested interest in cutco. I have some. They are good. I have some wustoff. They are 25 years old and still good. If they cost the same, I'd buy wustoff. If they were 40% cheaper.....hmmmm.....have to think.