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I recommend purchasing a set of high quality Japanese Chef Knives to aid you in the kitchen. Quality Japanese knives are the best kitchen cutlery in the world and will help you make better food and improve your experience in the kitchen greatly by making your food preparation faster, and less stenuous due to Japanese knives weighing in at about half of what Western style knives weigh on average. Some chefs prefer a heavy knife as they feel more so substantial in the hand, yet a quality Japanese chef knife will blow away any Western knife when it comes to cutting ability and performance overall. In recent years traditional Japanese knife designs like the Deba, Yanagi, and Usuba have been influenced by Western features such as stainless steel that is less susceptible to corrosion than traditonal Japanese high carbon steels, however, these modern steels are not as high quality as the traditionally forged high carbon tamahagane steels of old that were used to produce samurai swords for battle for centuries in feudal Japan. These modern steels however are cheaper and easier to produce than handmade tamahagane steels, which is causing them to see much more widespread use than traditonal hand made knives with wooden handles.