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Product Description
The 10 most indispensable pieces of cutlery stored conveniently at your fingertips. Set includes: 2-3/4" Paring Knife, Trimmer, Spatula Spreader, 9" Carver, 6-3/4" Petite Carver, 9-1/4" French Chef, 9-3/4" Slicer, Turning Fork, Carving Fork, Butcher Knife, Sharpener, FREE Cutting Board, and Homemaker Set Block (10-Pc.). Set comes with classic (black) handles. Truly a great gift idea. Never buy knives again for the rest of your life! About Cutco: Cutco is one of the largest manufacturers and sellers of high-quality cutlery in North America. Cutco offers a forever performance guarantee, a forever sharpness guarantee, and a forever replacement service agreement for misuse or abuse. Experience the difference with Cutco's quality cutlery!

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5 out of 5 stars

These knives do not rust! November 12, 2008
I have owned these knives for over 15 years and they DO NOT RUST. However, these knives are NOT for use in a professional kitchen, so professionals, buy your wustoff exc. They stay very sharp and they can be sent back whevever you feel they need to be sharpened. Also, if you have a broken piece they will send you a new one free of charge. So for the man who wrote that he thought the knives were not any good, you are wrong, these are the best knives I have ever owned and have continued to be reliable for 15 years. If you are new to cutco, try a double D edge knife first (it looks like it is serrated) you will be amazed with how great it works! Hooray for cutco!

3 out of 5 stars

Decent Knives if you can find them cheap October 3, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

My sister bought 3 pieces of cutco, the cheese knife, the scissors and the 9 inch slicer. Although i felt they were quality when i first handled they are far from the good stuff.

I told my sis that these are high carbon steel and that they will rust, but she said they won't because the salesman told her. Anyways either they are defrauding people are they are just ignorant about knives.

The edge of the cleaver is a hollow ground but is not buffed as it has some textures, although i don't expect them to be like my custom knives at least i was hoping to find a better finish to the blade geometry, but the added texture and the fat blade gives an extra resistance when chopping quickly through vegies. Blade is about 27 Degree angle offering a very sharp edge for "slicing"

The handle is made of white composite material, some kind of hardened plastic, (i preffer linen micarta) but in this case it feels very slippery when the hands are wet or oily which is usually the case when cooking or preparing food, the shape is "ergonomically" designed for small hands, i wear size 11 gloves and feel like toys to me. But perfect for the females so i'd keep that in mind if i were a potential buyer.

These are not knives for the professionals housewives, who usually slices instead of chop/cut through stuff so the added resistance won't matter to them, but as far as for myself i am used to chop and cut fast with the chinese knife, they are great thin blade and very easy to keep them sharp.

Overall they are a great value for the people who are ready to jump into a higher category from the amazing TV stuff since they offer sharpenning and usually is an lost art now a days.

If you can get them around $75 a piece then they are alright more is pushing.

5 out of 5 stars

Cutco Makes a great knife July 3, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful

I don't sell Cutco (like it appears some other "reviewers" do). But I've owned Cutco knives for 8 years now, and I cook with them constantly. I'm thinking of getting the straight edged knives sharpened soon for the first time. They have really been great. Best part is, you can put them in the dishwasher. Can't do that with Chicago's wooden handles. Read the fine print on those Henckels knives, too: their warranty is void if you don't hand wash them. I don't have time to handwash. I like that my knives are always sharp, have an ergonomic grip, and can take a beating. Plus, they are sharpened for free, forever. The only downside is after getting used to great knives for so long, cooking at my boyfriend's place was horrible--he had these crappy, dull knives! No worries, though; I got him some Cutco for Christmas. Now he uses nothing but the Cutco I got him.

5 out of 5 stars

CUTCO is great! April 5, 2007
0 out of 7 found this review helpful

Not only because of their lifetime sharpness and lifetime replacement guarantees. Which is nice if they are accidently misused. I had my son cutting with my chef's knife on glass and stone when I was on vacation. I called them and they sharpened it for free. They said if it needed to be replaced they would have done that also. PS I can get cutco for 20% cheaper than anyplace iv'e seen. That's like $200 Saved on this item alone. Email me directly. or contact me on amazon "BigFarscape"

1 out of 5 stars

Overpriced, well-marketed, mediocre cultery March 24, 2007
18 out of 32 found this review helpful

THESE are famed Cutco knives?! I'd suppose if you're accustomed to buying cutlery at Sears, these may seem like good knives, but compared to real knives such as Misono or Togiharu, they're a freaking joke, can't even decently slice a tomato. Adding insult to injury, Cutco is audacious enough to place itself at the same price bracket as real knives. Even an hour on the water stone can't get this fat, heavy, dull blade to yield a respectable cut. The steel in the Cutco is excessively hard to reduce the amount of sharpening it seems, but in order to prevent chipping of such a hard blade it seems cutco made the blades excessively thick as well. Impractically so for fine slicing in fact. On top of that, the excessive hardness makes sharpening all that much more difficult. And the blade still dulls in 2 months. There is no reason for a home chef to have such hard steel, especially when the blade is so poorly designed.

A complete rip off for the money. Worse than Bose speakers. There are reasons why you never see Cutco in restaurant kitchens. If you're considering spending this much on cutlery, you're much better off searching for knives such as misono or korin.

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