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What Is a Boning Knife and What Is It Used For?

What Is the Best Way To Store Kitchen Knives?

There are a few options for safe storage of your kitchen knives. Learn about the best ways to store your kitchen knives online at Chubo Knives. 

How To Choose a Cutting Board for Your Japanese Knife

How To Choose a Sharpening Stone

One indisputable fact about using a knife is that at some point, it will need to be sharpened.  There are ways to prolong the life of your blade, like using the right knife for the job and avoiding...

How To Remove Rust From a Knife

What’s the best way to remove rust from a knife?  Of course, the best solution is to not let your carbon steel knives develop rust in the first place. An essential preventive step to keeping rust f...

Japanese Knife Glossary

What are the various styles of Japanese knives? What are the definitions of these terms I'm reading while learning about Japanese knife forging? Find out here.

What's the best steel for Japanese kitchen knives?

Telling the Difference Between Gyutou and Santoku Knives

How To Sharpen a Knife Correctly

Knowing how to sharpen correctly is critical for the maintenance of Japanese kitchen knives. We teach you how to sharpen your knives in this post.

The Basic Rules of Kitchen Safety

How To Choose A Gift Knife For Any Level Of Cook

Knives are useful, beautiful tools that make great gifts. Most everyone has a need for a quality knife for cooking and many people have accumulated knives that might be dulled from use or not so we...

How To Choose a Chef’s Knife

Choosing a chef's knife might seem overwhelming with all the options available, so we put together this handy guide to walk you through all the decisions required to help you choose.

The Difference Between Honing and Sharpening a Knife

Essential Knives & Knife Techniques for Cooks of Every Level

In this video produced by Eater, Chef Paul Liebrandt discusses his four essential knives for all cooks, as well as knife skills you should know. Watch here.

Whetstone Maintenance: How to Flatten a Sharpening Stone

In this video, we demonstrate how to flatten a sharpening stone using a stone fixer. View this process and learn a few new tips by watching the video now.

How to Dice a Shallot

Learn how to properly dice a shallot from Chef Hugh Acheson. View this video and more on essential chef knife skills and care for your Japanese knives.

Types of Sharpening Stones and How to Use Them

This is part two of our video series where we demonstrate the various sharpening techniques and tools essential to properly maintain your knives. In this video, we focus on the types of sharpening...

How to Sharpen Japanese Kitchen Knives – Video Series

Professional chef and sharpening enthusiast Eduardo Castro Estrada helped us put together a video guide for each of his essential steps on how to sharpen Japanese kitchen knives. Step one: Choosing...