Wusthof fine german Cutlery and kitchen tools.How WÜSTHOF - knives are produced

[223timothy]

YOU GUYS SUCK!!!

[num45rjr]

man i just bought 3 of the wusthof knives off all4achef website and saved almost 100 dollars.... wusthof and shun are the best for sure! im just waiting on that website to start carrying shun as well bc they have the best deals.... hope this helps a bit

[ltkinky1]

Yeah and from what i can see from my wusthof knives (and i've got a wusthof knife range spanning from 120+ year old ones to brand new ones) new wusthof knives are basically junk. Precision forging my a**... the quality of these new wusthof knives is very bad. They take the edge a lot harder than the old stainless ones wich were made in this way and get dull rather easy. And i've come to rely on my shaving sharp knives so i get pretty irritated when they lose that property after few dozen slices.

[mrbeanaswell]

@ltkinky1 thats rubbish

[ltkinky1]

If you can't distinguish this property, fine by me. But don't go telling other people's observations are rubbish if you don't know anything about anything. In old terms high-carbon meant around 1% of carbon in the steel mixture (usually 1.10% - 1.5% for stainless). Now take your nice wusthof nice you're so proud of and read... says X50 probably on it... X60 if it's an older one. That means 0.5 / 0.6 carbon in the mixture. That also means lower possible blade hardness and lesser edge retention.

[mrbeanaswell]

@ltkinky1 so why do a lot of chefs (eg Gordon Ramsay) use Wüsthof knives?

[ltkinky1]

@mrbeanaswell

Because they are one of the best quality available knives. But compared to the older wusthofs today's are a lot less quality. Same goes for Henckels, Dexter and 99% other brand name knife factories. Adding speed to knifemaking process kills quality and properties even if the materials are good stuff. But today most companies use refined recycled steels (like F.Dick does for their butcher knives) so quality drop is visible to an amateur, not just a chef or a knifemaker that i am.

[poolvato]

I own a set of Wusthof knives and they are the best I've ever owned. I will be passing these on to my kids in 20 years!

[MisterB1949]

This is actually an old video. The knives are not made that way any more. They have much more high tech methods of shaping the forged knife called "precision forging".