You May Not Need a Giant Chef’s Knife When a Midsize Knife Does the Trick
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Kitchen knives are so personal. You can do almost everything you need in a kitchen with a chef's knife, paring knife, and a bread knife. But the more time you spend in the kitchen, the more you develop preferences, and soon it becomes a bit of an n+1 thing, and there you are, pondering a cleaver.
There's a lot of space between most chef's knives and paring knives. What's in that space—often called petty, prep, or utility knives—is often pretty weird. Consider the knives that you never use from a set and you'll likely think of the short, serrated knives or the petty knives with no room for your fingers between the handle and the cutting board.
What if you're...
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