Japanese chef’s knives are some of the most expensive knives in the world. Just one knife produced at Takamura Hamono in Echizen, Japan can cost $900. Echizen has been the center of Japanese knife making for hundreds of years, and today, it’s where many artisans spend decades learning to make high-quality cutlery. At Takamura Hamono, artisans spend over 10 years learning how to properly hammer, sharpen, and polish each blade. The knives are used in many of the world’s best restaurants, including noma in Copenhagen and Le Bernardin in New York City.
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Why Japanese Chef’s Knives Are So Expensive | So Expensive
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The Japanese are like those magical elves that make magical things. Everything they do is just a cut above the rest, just like Germans and some other countries that do things very well.
This vs katana ?
My kitchen knife can’t even cut yogurt 😂
They cut like a katana made by Hattori Hanzo.
I wonder if Gordon Ramsay has one
Every craft in Japan takes ten years to Master
These blades seem to be like art which brings us more art. Unique, every piece.
No way around it, if you pay 7K for a knife then you're getting scammed
So expensive; so expensive
amazing
1:57 nice
Doug Marcaida: “It will keel.”
when he says "the soul of the person who made it and uses it resides in a knife", i know what he means. my grandpa showed his love through food, and he had this massive knife, and it feels unnatural to see anyone but him using that knife.
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Nowadays anything from Japan is immensely expensive
Its a fetish thats what makes them expensive
Can't beat Japanese marketing
0:56 tokyo manji gang uniform lol
Wait.. okay. It's valyrian steel.
If these guys somehow die, these knives would cease to exist. No wonder they are expensive
They're made of Vylarian steel , that's why they're costly
If you want to breathe in Japan you need a lifetime go master it
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Awesome
My knife costs Rs. 30, that is less than half a dollar
2:11
Guys.He talks about heat treatment (yaki_ire). It is not hammering…
It is not for sandwich 🥪 maker's 🙏
As a sushi chef, let me out it like this. You can drive a fucked up honda with the engine light on and no ac, or you can drive a freshly tuned GTR. Knives are similar and will handle accordingly. A well maintained Japanese knife just cuts so naturally, the weight so perfectly balanced. To be able to cut through bone without you’re hand hurting in one smooth motion, the feeling of steel that has been folded over and over 100s of time by hand. It is like art.