XINZUO5-Piece Kitchen Knife Set, Super Sharp Damascus Chef Knife Set for Professional Chef and Home Cooking,Japense Knife Set with Pakkawood Handle, Chef Gift Box- Ya Series

I purchased the 5” utility knife on a flash sale. I am slowly replacing my 25 yr old German knives that are still good but mostly are too big for daily use (never need 8” chef’s knife). The Xinzuo 5” knife is beautiful and very sharp. Easily passes the newsprint cut test. The grip is large/full. The 5" is not light weight and has a sturdy/firm feel. As a result balance is OK if you grip slightly toward the back of the knife. Quality looks good. Price is about 1/2 of what a good German would cost on sale!Edit: After 4.5 years this knife has been sharpened twice and ceramic rod honed in between. Awesome for vegetable work and size is just right for most kitchen chores. Only straight blade knife I own that will easily cut through a tomato skin. Stays super sharp with a few strokes on the ceramic rod. Hand washed and the pakkawood handle looks like new.

Out of the box, these are dangerously, stupidly, wonderfully sharp. You have to treat them like little chainsaws, rather than normal knives: they will cut through flesh instantly and with zero resistance, and after using them for a very short period of time, you will learn to appreciate how careless you've always been with knives beforehand. I can more or less wave these through a celery stalk to cut it cleanly. That sharp.I have the full set, but there is one knife I use about 80% of the time. After 4 years of consistent use, the blade of that knife is still sharper than any of my old knives, but was no longer light-saber sharp, and needed honing for the first time. Brief sharpening with a diamond sharpening plate, followed by honing and polishing on leather with sharpening compound, brought it back to hair-whittling sharpness.I am very glad I splurged on these knives. They are gorgeous and very, very, very effective.

The most beautiful knives I’ve ever owned and the sharpest. Cuts tomatoes better than my tomato knife!

Excellent construction, high quality, well crafted extremely sharp. Highly recommended.

These ARE NOT FOLDED STEEL KNIVES.That being said, they are a good quality steel that are well balanced and well made. I purchased our set in 2019 and with semi-regular maintenance they still look great and cut great. For the price it’s a awesome product.

I love that the knife comes in a nice box and that the knifes are very protected. The knife have very great weight to it the handle feels amazing. It is very sharp, and designs llooks amazing. I gave as a gift wish I would have bought it for myself.

These knives are just WOW...my fiance is a professional chef and turned me on to "real" knives. These are just beautiful and cut amazing, even the packaging was beautiful with black boxes and red inside. Def recommend, love them.

The first time i used this (cutting bell peppers) they cut well but the blade on the chefs knife chipped. It chipped at the seam where the so called damascus meets the blade edge.