Let's say you are in that kitchen store.

You're in a nice little local kitchen store and you're trying out knives.

They've opened the case for you and you're holding the knife in your hand.

And they don't have an onion or a carrot or something to chop.

First off, I wait for the clerk to look away and I shave the hair on my arm.

No, you don't.

The hair on your arm. I think you should't. The hair on your arm. I think you should

go big and just do your legs.

I'm Christine Cyr-Cleset. I'm

Kyra Blackwell, and you're listening

to The Wirecutter Show. Hira, I want to talk about your kitchen.

Okay.

Let's get into it.

Do you have a knife set or what's your knife situation?

You're going to be very proud of me.

This is the one thing in my kitchen that I do have and I am very proud of. I have a real Japanese knife set and the only reason it's a nice knife set is because my dad gifted them to me when I graduated from college. Oh, that's a nice gift. It was a really lovely gift. So I have a shun Japanese knife set. It's very nice. It's got five knives all in total, and I love them. Oh, that's lovely.

What about you? I have some pretty nice knives that I've accumulated over the years. They're kind of a hodgepodge. I don't have a set, but I am going to admit that I don't think I take great care of them. I don't sharpen them enough, and I have lots of people using knives in my house, including my kids. So someone was

recently in my kitchen and mistook a piece of slate for a cutting board and started cutting on it. So I know that knife is not doing very well. We're not naming names. No, we will not be naming names. But I do think it's probably time to sharpen them. Yeah, I will say, even though I love my knives, I have never gotten them professionally sharpened and I'm feeling a little bit lost about it. I think that we have

the right person to lost about it.

I think that we have the right person to talk to us about that. We absolutely do. We are bringing back Leslie Stockton, who is one of our most senior kitchen writers at Wirecutter. She knows a ton about knives. She has worked in professional kitchens for many, many years, and she wrote our guide

to chef's knives. So she has tested a ton of knives with a bunch of people. So she's going to

really fill us in on everything you need to know about the basic knives that you should have in your

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