A Chinese vegetable cleaver can not only do everything a typical Western chef’s knife can do, but it can also easily scoop up chopped ingredients and peel vegetables with its square-tipped, thin blade ...

This video shows off the versatility of a Chinese chef’s knife, also known as a Chinese cleaver. For a big hunk of metal that looks at home in a butcher shop, the cleaver can actually handle precise ...

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As I've grown my cooking skills, I've come to rely on specialty blades more and more. Getting better at cooking has been an ongoing quest since I was a child. Each new recipe I negotiate expands my ...

But one sharp-beaked bird keeps flying back into my hands. My Dexter Chinese-style cleaver has occupied a perpetual spot in the cutlery lineup, even if it goes unused for months at a time. We recently ...

Laurence Segal of Westside Sharpening & Cutlery Center has precisely the personality you need in a go-to knife guy. He's intensely opinionated about your blade choice (“Only stainless, never, ever ...

Sean Warmington-Wan is a man who wears many hats: chef, food anthropologist, entrepreneur. But these days, he is best known as the founder of Fragrant Knives, a small but fast-growing brand built ...