Victorinox 4-Piece Knife Set with Fibrox Handles

I’ve only used the 6” knife and the bread knife, but can easily tell these are far superior to the generic knives we’ve been using for years. The long term key, of course, will be to use a quality sharpener, which I tend to purchase. The 6” knife cut through a roasted chicken like butter. It was so smooth, I actually cut some cartridge off the chicken and had to cut it out later on. That would never happen with our old knives. The long bread knife has cut through sandwiches, just as easily without tearing the sandwich bread on the bottom apart like before. Cutting through a partially frozen bagel was another cinch. I haven’t done any bigger jobs, like chopping or slicing vegetables one right after the other, but I would expect the job to be much easier than in the past. While these knifes have partial tangs instead of full tangs, the tangs are forked inside the fibrox handle which is molded around the forked tang. That will make these much more stable than smooth flat tangs which can work themselves out of the handle overtime. These knives are manufactured in Switzerland, so their quality is very good, though they may not be Wusthovs. But, they aren’t heavy either and are comfortable to use while having durability. Even top chefs use Victorinox, so what does that tell you?! They each came with a plastic sheath for protection, while I decide on which knife block to get. The funny thing was that a couple of those sheaths we already sliced halfway down their length, due to the sharpness of the knife they hold! Just keep thise away from the little ones…

This 4-piece set was $59.95 when I purchased them in April 2013. That was an EXCEPTIONAL value. I would definitely say this set is worth the current, higher price ($99.95). I have since added the Victorinox 7-inch santoku knife to this set. I don’t work in a restaurant, I’m just a home cook that enjoys cooking. That said, I still wanted GOOD knives that could be depended on to keep an edge, that wouldn’t break and that weren’t too expensive.

I did a bit of research in reddit’s “AskCulinary” sub-reddit and Victorinox knives were highly recommended to beginner cooks as reliable “workhorse” knives. I have had my set for over a year and all of them are still in great shape. My 8-inch chef’s knife could probably stand to be sharpened at this point. I haven’t had any of them sharpened but I do have a honing steel and my knives cut remarkably well after a few passes on the honing steel.

The knives are lightweight, but don’t feel chintzy. The handles are comfortable and textured so they aren’t too slippery when they are wet. I have fairly large hands and the handles feel comfortable and don’t feel too small.

I highly recommend this set to anyone looking for solid, dependable, general-purpose kitchen knives.

I bought this item as a “Used-Like New” item from the Amazon warehouse so I could save almost $19 on the set. I was really worried that they’d arrive looking used, but I was pleasantly surprised. The only negative cosmetic thing with the set was that the cheap plastic sleeves each knife came in were in very rough shape. As in bent up so they will have big permanent wrinkles in the plastic sleeves and the sleeves also had long cuts in them which I taped up. Eventually I will buy either knife guards or find a much better storage solution for them, but for now they are useable as temporary knife storage to protect the blades some. I’m not complaining though since I’m very happy with my brand new looking knives and the fact I got to save about 25% off the regular price. I only mention it in case others are considering buying from Amazon’s warehouse to save money and are wondering if they can trust Amazon’s description of the used items they sometimes sell. So the bottom line is I say at least from my experience this time I’d say if you don’t mind a returned item go ahead and trust their item description and save some money.

As for the knives, I’d previously bought a Victorinox 8″ chef’s knife from another online vendor and instantly fell in love with it. At the Cooks Illustrated website they’d mentioned that Victorinox has plans to take these knives out of retail stores in 3 years so I started shopping Amazon to get another one as a backup in case I needed another one someday and I couldn’t get them anymore. In addition to the 8″ chef’s knife I was also wanting a Victorinox 10 1/4″ bread knife so I was tickled when I found this set with both those knives and was able to get 4 knives for about the same price as the 2 knives I was shopping for.

My knives arrived today and I made a loaf of bread to test out my new bread knife. I let the loaf sit on a cooling rack for 30 minutes and then tried out my new bread knife. I was instantly very impressed. The interior of the bread although not hot was still very warm and moist and the bread knife sliced through it like a pro without any effort on my part and not the least bit of smashing of the bread.

As everybody mentions the knives are very sharp so watch your fingers and keep them out of the reach of children. I would gladly recommend them to friends and family. I think I may get one of these sets and a sharpening steel for my daughter for her birthday.

Great value pack for 4 knives. Originally I was just going to get the Chefs knife because Cook’s illustrated rated it very highly, but decided to get the four pack because it was such a good deal. I have been using cheap Ikea knives for the past 2 years and really needed something sharper. These knives are great. They are not the sharpest knives I’ve ever used, but at this price point you will be hard pressed finding something better. The handles are very comfortable and grippy, yet don’t have any sticky rubber feel. Overall I would recommend this knife set if you need to supply your kitchen with decent knives.