Nakiri: The One Knife to Rule Them All?

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  • Опубликовано: 26 янв 2025

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  • @82delta
    @82delta 11 месяцев назад +25

    Just an FYI....the point of a nikiri is the heel. Once you practice you can become so skilled using the heel of a nikiri you can remove small spots on potatoes or even make mini roses for garnish out of radishes.

  • @lcritter
    @lcritter Год назад +26

    My first Japanese knife was a Nakiri and I worried I should’ve bought a gyuto first. Now I have {enough less one} Japanese knives and my Nakiri is definitely the one I reach for the most.

  • @oracle_sean
    @oracle_sean Год назад +15

    +1 for tall Nakiri. My first Japanese knife was a cheap (short) Nakiri. My daughter visited and fell in love with it-it somehow found its way into her luggage! I replaced it with the tall Massakage, and I can't imagine going back. It rewards a good pinch grip with wonderful precision cuts. The edge retention isn't superb (being my most-used blade may have something to do with it), but it doesn't take much to return it to wicked sharpness.

  • @manylch7964
    @manylch7964 Год назад +7

    agree with all comments...I have acquired many knives over the years; santoku, gyuto, bunka, deba,etc but find I use my nakiri 80% of the time even for slicing meat. A number 2 Chinese chopper for is good meat with bones and a petty knife for delicate stuff. In the kitchen you only need 3-4 knives to cover all the bases.

    • @rexseven6907
      @rexseven6907 3 месяца назад

      I use the nakiri at least 80% of the time and about 1/2 the times I don't, it's just to use another knife.

  • @roggenkid
    @roggenkid Год назад +66

    Another advantage of the Nakiri is that it is incredibly simple and fast to sharpen

    • @KnifewearKnives
      @KnifewearKnives  Год назад +5

      True!

    • @hello.itsme.5635
      @hello.itsme.5635 Год назад +6

      This is really a good point. Even thinning is pretty easy compared to other knives.

    • @kiliang96
      @kiliang96 Год назад +1

      Don't ask me why but the feeling when sharpening is way better, It's probably the straight shape and the tall blade that makes it for a really comfortable and easy sharpening

  • @UseVisine
    @UseVisine Год назад +10

    I believe it! A nakiri is essentially a smaller Chinese chef's knife (I forget what they call it in Mandarin right now). Watching Yan Can Cook all those years ago showed me it's an all purpose knife. So a nakiri is just a more delicate CCK really. I bought a Ryusen Fukaku Ryu on the recommendation of Naoto-san. Love it!2x And a Wusthoff Ikon for the rougher work.

    • @gsutherland3614
      @gsutherland3614 Год назад +1

      100% agree. I used a chinese cleaver ONLY for years, however, it can never do what a deba will do for fish, or a honesuki for meat, as well as the japanese blades... buuuuut there isnt a single japanese blade that can do what a single chinese cleaver can do overall (except maybe the Nakiri, but even then I'd go cleaver). i love how culture defines cuisine, cuisine influences knives, then the knives go back and influence the cuisine, and then re-shape culture

  • @BrianMCarroll
    @BrianMCarroll 11 месяцев назад +2

    Inspiring. I just bisected a salmon fillet longitudinally. Effortless! The thin heavy blade made a beautiful clean cut. Thanks!

  • @JDAfrica
    @JDAfrica Год назад +3

    Bought my first Nakiri, after using my 3 Santoku knifes for the last 16 years.
    Really enjoying it. It has a great balance, and the 10 degree blade allows much finer slicing in veg

  • @steveyarnell2.o
    @steveyarnell2.o Год назад +3

    Thank you knifewear for sharing this.

  • @Guenounovitch
    @Guenounovitch Год назад +2

    that channel became my favorite, right before the day i receive my Nigara nakiri anmon

  • @ScottKent
    @ScottKent Год назад +3

    I sort of agree...I tend to only use a nakiri except when working around bone (I love my nakiri too much to risk it). I use a honesuki around bones and it has become my go to as a petty knife too.

  • @DJtheChemist
    @DJtheChemist Год назад +1

    "oh that was the wrong hand" hahaahha I felt that moment. ITS SO WEIRD when you do that by accident.

  • @adamng5338
    @adamng5338 25 дней назад

    I use my Nakiri knife for everything. The moment I took my first slice, I fell in love. There is just that nice smooth feeling it goes through food, I cant explain it. But indeed, the lack of a prominent tip is its weakness, it cant perform some tasks as well.

  • @twinwankel
    @twinwankel Год назад +5

    The best knife for filleting a chicken is a western boning knife. I have a Honesuki and it's OK. It's too stiff and takes longer and you need to make a lot of small cuts with it. A flexible western boning knife is so fast, it can go around the breast bone in a couple of slices. I don't even know why the Japanese didn't make an equivalent. I have a Shun classic Nakiri and it's a great vegetable knife. Nothing sticks to it and it just glides through material. I also have a Mac Nakiri which is very sharp but onions sticks to it like a vacuum cleaner and I hate using it. It's good for slicing meat though.

  • @sto2779
    @sto2779 11 месяцев назад

    2:19 - Is that a pitted/hammered Nakiri? The cabbage shouldn't stick on to the knife like that if so...

    • @KnifewearKnives
      @KnifewearKnives  11 месяцев назад

      It's a little textured, but not super rough which is likely why it's sticking.

  • @georg9967
    @georg9967 Год назад +2

    I'm not sure if they exist. But for me a tipped Nakiri (like a kansai style usuba but double beveled) would be the ultimate prep knife. Currently I use a tall bunka as it's the second closest thing.

    • @cdht942
      @cdht942 Год назад

      Mercer m20907, exactly what you're describing

  • @sonkekoster3105
    @sonkekoster3105 Год назад

    Hi Lordy, nice demonstration! With the right skills the shape of the knife becomes less important. Always a pleasure to watch your content. Knifewear rocks! I personally tend more towards Gyutos and Kiritsukes as daily driver. When I choose a real tall knive, I pick up my chinese cleaver. But so far I have only one traditional NGA stainless do it all cleaver. This is good for coarse stuff and is able to cut through rips, chicken etc. But is not ideal for fine work. For that I have a Yu Kurosaki Shizuku Bunka - a true Laser. So let's cook!

  • @ShantarrDalrae
    @ShantarrDalrae 10 месяцев назад

    Thank you for the information, hope you got more than the one bite!

  • @barbarajohnson6398
    @barbarajohnson6398 Год назад

    LOL. thanks for this great vid. As an old-ster--we only had skillet fry!

  • @miker7920
    @miker7920 Год назад +1

    I prefer my bunka as it also has the straight cutting side but also the K-tip.

    • @kevinmoss5538
      @kevinmoss5538 Месяц назад

      I agree. I use my Bunka more than I do my Gyuoto. But I do love my Nakiri.

  • @AmazingKitchen
    @AmazingKitchen 2 месяца назад

    My first Japanese knife is also a Nakiri. I use it for everything from vegetables to meat. I like the weight and the ease of sharpening it because mine is a carbon steel Aogami 1. Best purchase. Now I am thinking of getting a Kiritsuke Carbon Steel also, because I love the shape and design of it. Should I get something like that? What do you think? My style of food is international (i.e. everything, lol) Thanks. Great video

    • @KnifewearKnives
      @KnifewearKnives  2 месяца назад

      I love the kiritsuke, it's a super versatile knife! This is one of my favourites:
      knifewear.com/products/moritaka-ishime-kiritsuke-210mm

    • @AmazingKitchen
      @AmazingKitchen 2 месяца назад

      In your opinion, what do you think of the Kiritsuke Carbon Steel knife? Do you recommend?

  • @bruceswearingen7718
    @bruceswearingen7718 Год назад

    This 1 is what I've been thinking..plus a paring & a serrated for breads & buns

  • @bw7112
    @bw7112 Год назад

    what is the brand of the green handle knife hanging on the wall?

    • @KnifewearKnives
      @KnifewearKnives  Год назад

      Hey, that's just a one-off custom handle we put on that knife!

  • @danielbottner7700
    @danielbottner7700 Год назад

    The big advantage of a Nakiri is the durability of the front/tip of the blade, with a very thin profile behind the cutting edge. Thin blade push easier through high density foods.
    Most knife styles with small points/tips are thicker behind the cutting edge to withstand accidental encounters.

  • @rais3tong
    @rais3tong Год назад

    can you demo that masakage zero behind you looks really amazing !!!

  • @82delta
    @82delta 11 месяцев назад +3

    While I appreciate the nonsequitor tangent this video takes, from an entertainment perspective, I must remind you that the entire Japanese culture and the knife industry culture are geared to prevent this "one knife for everything" dilemma. The gyoto is the "jack of all trades" for convenience of in hand and at the ready use during peak time crunches at local fast grills during lunch time, but no respectable chef in a sit down meal and relax style environment will be without a deba, nakiri, petty, funyuki, santoku, bunka, kritsuke, yangiba, sujihiki, ad nauseam. The 1 knife concept is best regulated to the woods and to survival & bushcraft where you are away from home and have no kitchen or stove or reason to enjoy a multitude of speciality knives geared for and built for a very specific task and meant to be the best knife in the world at that task. (yes, I know santoku and bunka literally mean "multi purpose" lol ) Kinda like a single sharpening stone or a single burner stove....why? I want as many knives, sharpening stones and kitchen appliances as the law and my budget will allow me to have 😊

  • @thiago.assumpcao
    @thiago.assumpcao Год назад +1

    Nakiri is more versatile than people think. Chinese Cleaver has similar straight profile and works really well as general purpose chef knife. Same applies to Nakiri.
    Despite that the Japanese tradition of having one knife for meat and another for vegetables makes sense.
    Aggressive edge goes really well with vegetables, 300-1000 grit finish that can cut paper towel is an excellent finish
    Raw meat goes well with high polish. If Im optimizing for raw meat I go at least 6K but 10-12k is even better.
    For a general purpose knife you need a compormise middle ground that is not optimized for either task but works decent for both. Usually people go 1-6K on general purpose, my preference is 3K.

    • @michelepalermo2949
      @michelepalermo2949 4 месяца назад

      Why you shouldn't do a 6000 polish even you mean do only veg the more sharp the better is

    • @thiago.assumpcao
      @thiago.assumpcao 4 месяца назад

      @@michelepalermo2949 Most people don't know how to properly deburr on low grit stones but with good technique you can get an edge that is sharp enough to shave hair or cut paper towels straight out of a 300 grit stone.
      If we compare coarse and polished edge both cutting paper towels the polished knife will tend to slip on vegetable skin while coarse edge will tend to bite and cut.
      The high polish of chromium oxide is specially bad for vegetables, barbecue and fat layer.

    • @michelepalermo2949
      @michelepalermo2949 4 месяца назад

      @@thiago.assumpcao your words make sense sure, but I'm not totally agree, a polished edge can cut more linear ad smoothly, yeah he could slip a little bit on veg skin but just put just a little bit of strength to go , isn't it right ?

    • @thiago.assumpcao
      @thiago.assumpcao 4 месяца назад

      @@michelepalermo2949 If you need more force to cut vegetables with polished edge is it really sharper than coarse grit?
      Definition of sharpness is complicated.
      I always try to optimize for best cutting capacity.

  • @philipp594
    @philipp594 Год назад +8

    A Chinese chef's knife can do it all. You just need to adapt the techniques - It has the acute tip. There is a medium heavy one for lobsters, seafood and chicken. That would probably be ideal.

    • @KnifewearKnives
      @KnifewearKnives  Год назад +3

      We've got a Chinese cleavers video coming soon!

    • @philipp594
      @philipp594 Год назад

      @@KnifewearKnives Those are always great. Looking forward to it!

    • @lawrenceragnarok1186
      @lawrenceragnarok1186 Год назад

      They're just too big for cramped little American kitchens. Also they're expensive if you get one with decent steel. Also if you get the cheap ones they're often warped or have shitty edge retention. Chinese cleavers are very niche

    • @philipp594
      @philipp594 Год назад +1

      @@lawrenceragnarok1186 I use mine in a tiny studio. They acutually have a lot more usable blade than a similar sized chef's knife. I use a cheap Zwilling one. You don't want a expensive hard steel. This is a workhorse if the steel is too hard you can't smack ginger or garlic with it or break bones with the spine.
      I used my cheap one in a professional kitchen serving 300+ guests per night and did not have problems with the edge retention. I can sharpen it on the back of plate in a few minutes.
      If you know how to hone and sharpen you will never be in trouble xD.

    • @nickolastiguan
      @nickolastiguan Год назад

      @@philipp594 not a chief knife, but I love my Kau Kong; I use that sh!t to chop everything 😂

  • @dawggonevidz9140
    @dawggonevidz9140 Год назад

    I have a $3 thai made knife like a nakiri but quite a bit thinner. The heel of the blade (the last bit by the handle) is a very good for anything you need the tip for. It's my go to prep knife, and I also tend to get it for dressing meat for my jerky, trimming out the fat and silver skin. I can't think of many meals I can't do with just that one knife. One technique I use a lot with this knife is to choke right up on the back of the blade hardly holding the handle at all, especially when I'm smashing through stirfry prep.

    • @DavidTumarkin
      @DavidTumarkin Год назад

      Sounds like a Kiwi. Kiwi knives are awesome. 👍

  • @Psychonaut999
    @Psychonaut999 Год назад

    Thank you for the video!
    I am currently struggling deciding between the Miyabi 5000mcd Santoku and Nakiri. I am vegan so a Nakiri would make sense. But their Nakiri is a bit of an untypical one. I love the Birchwood look though.

    • @KnifewearKnives
      @KnifewearKnives  Год назад +1

      Yeah, their nakiri is closer to a santoku or a Bunka, but it's a beauty regardless!

  • @The_Slavstralian
    @The_Slavstralian Год назад

    I cut meat with my Nakiri all the time. Its thin and sharp as hell, I find it perfect for slicing boneless meat especially flat filleting on using the board as the base can get a good even fillet if I am careful. I also have a Gyuoto I recently bought from a trip to Japan it is also a phenomenal beautiful knife.

  • @3ngan498
    @3ngan498 Год назад

    I never use the pointy tip of a knife like ever
    I have a Chinese cleaver but this look cool

  • @kiliang96
    @kiliang96 Год назад

    Another good use for a nakiri is removing the skin on a fish fillet, you can remove it way easier than win any other knife, other than a yanagiba, I don't have one so I butcher fish with my deba, another deba, a ajikiri one and my nakiri, those last ones as support knives

  • @Anis-m7i
    @Anis-m7i 6 месяцев назад +1

    thxs

  • @sharamkh
    @sharamkh Год назад +1

    What about a funayuki?

  • @jlastre
    @jlastre 8 месяцев назад

    There is a video on RUclips that shows an eel restaurant where the chef is using a nikiri to process the eels. I think the bone is thin enough for him not to worry

    • @KnifewearKnives
      @KnifewearKnives  8 месяцев назад

      I would imagine so, that's interesting!

  • @n00baTr00pa
    @n00baTr00pa 15 дней назад

    I was always taught that the best all-round knife is a pizza cutter.

  • @olan5668
    @olan5668 Год назад +1

    Santoku or Bunka for me (for blade length 165-180mm). Minimum blade height (heel to spine) 55mm, flatter edge profile (gently curved), and good tip.
    Or Kiritsuke for longer blade (210-240mm). Minimum blade height 50mm.

  • @michelepalermo2949
    @michelepalermo2949 4 месяца назад

    Onestly you don't usa a gyuto or kiritsuke or deba or santoku and even nakiri for debone and fillet fish and honest I like santoku, bunka or gyuto style, , but if you have to cut meat in pieces or fish or obviously any vegetables you can do it without problem with a nakiri

    • @KnifewearKnives
      @KnifewearKnives  4 месяца назад

      Having a tip on your knife is super helpful when deboning! I personally use a honesuki when I'm doing poultry, and a yanagiba/deba for fish!

    • @michelepalermo2949
      @michelepalermo2949 4 месяца назад

      @@KnifewearKnives yeah but for deboning you need a small knife curve with a tip similar to fish, for this last one you use a similar but with a flexible blade , I wouldn't be confident with a deba

  • @LouCheezeYouSleaze
    @LouCheezeYouSleaze Год назад

    I use my Petty every day, but it also doubles as a utility knife. I use my Bunka when doing precise cuts, like dicing an onion and staying just millimeters away from the head, and I use my Chinese vegetable cleaver whenever cutting thick root vegetables that even my Nakiri has trouble getting through....but my Nakiri? I rarely use it.

  • @Saltius999
    @Saltius999 Месяц назад

    Watching you cut that onion is making my eyes burn

  • @roospike
    @roospike Год назад

    Bunka ... 48+ mm tall x 170 ish mm
    Slight curvature at the front, flat belly.
    Don't know about anybody else but once I started going to higher Rockwell hardness ratings Japanese knives I had to start to get away from rocking ... plink, plink ,plink across-the-board 😬
    Feels like when you actually find her nice style everything started to come into place.
    I have a much like/ dislike relationship with santokus and short nakiris. Why in the world would they manufacture short nakiris and santoku is beyond me.

  • @randysvids4774
    @randysvids4774 Год назад

    Dwight brought me here

  • @jameswoods4656
    @jameswoods4656 Год назад +1

    I've been using that same peeler since the mid nineties. The non believers persist though.

    • @jameswoods4656
      @jameswoods4656 Год назад

      @@markastzm Best one in my opinion.

    • @KnifewearKnives
      @KnifewearKnives  Год назад

      You know what's up!

    • @TheNazradin
      @TheNazradin 3 месяца назад

      Victorinox serrated peeler. The blade is amazing and long lasting as my daily in a commercial kitchen.

  • @franksloe5087
    @franksloe5087 4 дня назад

    "can you cut meat with it"
    --yes, it is a knife

  • @panganaranga
    @panganaranga Год назад

    A knive without a tip to rule them all? I am surprised to say the least. Started with the task the knive is made for and then kooks something you can cook with this knive. Is is usefull to have tip on the knive, not always? True, but if you need a tip itˋs usefull and a knive without a tip gets useless. 😂

  • @nicksokaluk9518
    @nicksokaluk9518 Год назад

    dude any chef worth his shit knows what to use to mix coleslaw

    • @KnifewearKnives
      @KnifewearKnives  Год назад +2

      😂

    • @anthonyreid7221
      @anthonyreid7221 Месяц назад

      Two hands and Mayonnaise, vinegar, sugar, salt, pepper brah. I thank my old executive chef who had us make all of our sauces. Out of Mayonnaise!? Get the immersion blender and some eggs and oil lol.

  • @jimwong5612
    @jimwong5612 2 месяца назад

    When you get to the chicken,you start to dance around and answer your own video title. There is tons of knives that will do your veggies. They way you protected the nakiri by just slicing the leg off and then just slicing the meat only breast,you left a lot of meat on the table...or should I say,the rest of the chicken.Your advice to prevent chipping the blade? Eat more vegetables and don't buy chicken with bones,then the nakiri just maybe all the knife one needs. Making a weak narrative to support your video title.

  • @jrk1666
    @jrk1666 10 месяцев назад

    Prefer my kiritsuke

  • @NodakSavage
    @NodakSavage 11 месяцев назад

    AAAWW, another leftie, did you have to get a special "left handed" knife?? I've been shopping for a couple new knives and this is becoming one of the most annoying things ever.

    • @KnifewearKnives
      @KnifewearKnives  11 месяцев назад +1

      Try these: knifewear.com/collections/shop?view=products&q=left%20handed%20knive#/filter:mfield_knifestats_edge_bevel:Single$2520Bevel$2520-$2520Left$2520Bias/filter:mfield_knifestats_edge_bevel:Semi-Double$2520(70$252F30)$2520-Left$2520Bias

  • @Goonamus
    @Goonamus 5 месяцев назад

    This is kind of a dumb video, a bunka does everything a nakiri does and more….