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Wusthof Classic Knives - 6 Inch Wusthof Classic Cooks Knife

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0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

Wusthof Classic 8" Knife

(5 out of 5) by Dee F. on May 20, 2007 (Salem, MA)
This product arrived before the due date. It was packaged perfectly. The knife is a great knife and yet has a light feel to it. It fits perfectly in my hand and has a nice sharp blade. I love it.
1 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

Wow...What a knife

(5 out of 5) by Amazon Customer on Dec 18, 2002
Wow...What a knife. This is as fine a feeling knife as I've ever held. The edge is awesome. The balance is perfect and it cuts great. Quality. What more can you say.
3 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

I love this knife!

(5 out of 5) by Catherine Kunz on Mar 5, 2003 (Il)
This is the best knife I have ever had. Since I've had it- I haven't needed my food processor nearly as often. It is the perfect size and weight for my needs
11 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

a compromise knife which does not do anything perfectly

(3 out of 5) by camisdad on Dec 29, 2001 (Berkeley, CA, United States)
I already have the 6 and the 8 inch wide wusthof chef's knives. I was looking for a more intermediate knife, which might let me chop, pare, slice and trim some without having to change knifes all the time.

After spending 4 weeks experimenting with it in depth, these are my conclusions:

- chopping - the blade is not quite wide enough or its curve convex enough, so when making a lot of chopping you end up rapping your fingers against the butcher block when doing your downward movement. You can still chop by being a bit careful, but it is way more efficient to use the 6" wide chef's knife or bigger.
- paring - too long, too wide, too heavy
- trimming and slicing - easy and comfortable

All in all, as a compromise knife I like the 3.5" wide blade Global knife a lot better - it is wide enough to chop and small enough to pare (although if you wanted to do a lot of paring you would want to use a true parer). Still, it is a good short utility knife and if that is the purpose of your purchase I would have not problem recommending it for that use.

My recommendation to Wusthof - come out with a knife that would have a 3" to 4" blade, a bit more curvy than this one, a touch wider at the base of the blade, with a handle that is slightly angled up from the horizontal (to avoid rapping the bottom of your fingers against the table) and you would have an awesome general purpose kitchen knife -I would also release it in the high end wusthof line, which has an awesome handle, rather than the triple rivet handle.

Best to all from camisdad