I found it much more useful to go to a knife shop and handle a whole bunch of knives for myself. They’re all pretty similar besides material, so not much signal you’re going to be able to glean from people arguing on reddit.
Most of the attributes don’t matter. Most people would be much better off with a $50 Victorinox that they kept sharp and a wood cutting board they maintained than upgrading the knife. If you are using it all day there are definitely looking things from a comfort perspective but for most homes, does not matter.
That's called taking responsibility for your actions and being an informed consumer or a critical thinker.
Unfortunately that is completely undoable for most people nowadays. That's seen as "too much work" for most people. That's something that people see as a waste of time and should be done by something else for them. A knife should be a 5 second one-click buy, then when it sucks people will complain that all their options are bad.
You spent time/money traveling to a shop? In 2026!? Omg what a waste of time! Why didn't you aggregate the 500 product review sites and Reddit comments to pick 5 possible knives? (Sarcasm)
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Unfortunately that is completely undoable for most people nowadays. That's seen as "too much work" for most people. That's something that people see as a waste of time and should be done by something else for them. A knife should be a 5 second one-click buy, then when it sucks people will complain that all their options are bad.
You spent time/money traveling to a shop? In 2026!? Omg what a waste of time! Why didn't you aggregate the 500 product review sites and Reddit comments to pick 5 possible knives? (Sarcasm)