Equipment Review: The Best Serrated Knives
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- Serrated knives are great for cutting so much more than bread. Which one is best?
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I bought the Mercer on this channels recommendation, a few months back. It’s not only as good as you say it is ,it’s a great spreader of butter and jam after you cut that crusty loaf. It also goes deep into a mayo jar. It really is a great deal on an excellent tool.
I would love to see a video of someone using it to spread butter and jam because in my mind it looks like something out of a cartoon
I’ve had the Mercer serrated knife for a few years and I love it! I’ve even bought it for gifts. It’s a must have.
Lisa, your videos are not only the gold standard for kitchen reviews, but are among the best review videos period!
Great info! It seems that Mercer is building a substantial reputation for delivering maximum quality for minimal cost, which they achieve by (a) not obsessing over so-called super steels in favor of steels that are good enough for the job at hand, and (b) manufacturing in Taiwan. I recently needed a 10" chef knife and immediately looked to Victorinox, but after a bit of searching I ran into the Mercer Renaissance which used the same steel but forged it rather than stamped it and it was $40 compared to $60 for the Victorinox.
I get Victorinox's price increases as they put in a lot of effort into excellent design and execution as well as capitalizing on their storied history and Western manufacture, but in so doing Mercer is taking over the space Victorinox used to occupy.
This is gold. Can't believe you summed everything up in 3 minutes. Thanks a ton. 🎉🎉🎉❤
Not sure if I have that exact one, but I do have a Mercer serrated knife and I really do like it!
Purchased the Mercer after your last review. It’s fantastic.
I got this knife the last time it was recommended here a few years ago, and its been a great addition. I agree for the price, its hard to find something better.
I bought this one a year ago and it's amazing. Best purchase I've made in my kitchen
Had the Mercer for about a year, great knife and still incredibly sharp. Sliced off the tip of my thumb last week while cutting a bagel and barely noticed.
That’s a sure sign of sharp. You see a little piece of yourself on the cutting board, next to the carrots, before you feel it. There’s good benefits to studying ,and practicing established cutting techniques.
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Hmm, tried the Mercer, seems like the Victorinox steers better though and less wedging at times, feels like a more precise, clean cut, so overall better cutting experience.
Interesting.
First time in nearly three years, that I've seen a company NOT TAKE ADVANTAGE of a great product, yet NOT start price gouging. Yep.
Love it. I'll be purchasing this knife for myself (or my son). 👍 😃 ✅
I love this knife! I use it for slicing bread and tonatoes.
Absolutely the best! Glad I heeded your recommendation!
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Our Mercer just arrived a couple days ago, based on a previous ATK recommendation. Lots of cooking planned for New Year's Eve, and we'll get our first trial of it.
How do you sharpen serrated knives?
My favorite wedding gift was a probably not very expensive Japanese knife set that included a chef's knife and a very decent serrated knife that meets all of your guidelines. That would have been 1996 and they are still as good as ever despite relatively inexpensive construction.
The Mercer really is a knife roll must have, has all the attributes you look for in a bread knife without the giant price tag😊
My favorite knife is a 5 in serrated knife from henkles . I have four and it’s the only knife I use for everything.
Wow it was on sale, thank you!
what a coincidence one of my favorite new knives is a mercer 6 in chef knife !
you should really have also tested the victoria inox pastry knife especially the rosewood handle one . the best knife ooverall.
Do you think that a harder grade of metal would be beneficial for knives like these? Don’t they stay sharper longer?
Can you please do a review of oil sprayers? I use spray oil everyday and the last oil sprayer I purchased was awful and I don’t want to get burned again
Thanks for the advice, Mercer has a great price on Amazon
I have this Mercer and it’s terrifyingly sharp. I love it
I am bewildered by this comment and the many others like it. I just got one and it's not sharp at all. I can run my finger along the blade, no problem. It just skids along the top of sourdough instead of cutting into it.
Good choice.
Looked online, & seeing 'CURVY BLADE'.
Doesn't look exactly like what you showed.
It is M23210.
I have had the same serrated knife for thirty years. I've abused it, cutting wood, pvc, hard plastic and it still cuts perfect. It's a Ginsu knife.
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Ginsu knives are great saws. Excellent for sawing leather boots in half. Highly recommended for keeping in the tool box.
The best bread knife is the Tojiro bread knife. The blade is so sharp and so good for crust. It can even cut easily through big melons. I'm sure the Mercer is good but I'd love to see a test vs the Tojiro.
They did test it. It did not win. It is the second one from the right on their table in this video. They also showed it when mentioning downgrading knives that are narrow and that lack knuckle clearance. I came in at number 8 out of the 11 knives compared, and it was still “recommended with reservations.” The knife that finished last was also recommended with reservations, and incidentally, was the same brand as the winning knife.
@@fordhouse8b tojiro makes another one that looks like the Mac next to the Mercer and I think that’s the one he’s referring to not the one in the video
@@Midnightmeatrain88 I doubt it. If he is a knife nerd, like myself, the cheap and unassuming Tojiro tested here is the one he likely means. The one that looks like the Mac also shares its limitations, an edge that is more scalloped than toothy, and is not so good for crust. For non-crusty breads and other softer items, the Mac knife is reputedly wonderful, and so to probably the more expensive Tojiro to which you are referring. If I were to buy either of them, I would probably get the Mac, if for no other reason than that I have wanted a Mac ever since I encountered a relative’s Mac Original paring knife, the one with the rounded tip, angled handle, and distinctive hole in the blade for hanging.
I have that one too. I love it. I like it much more than the Mercer because it’s not clunky and big. My knuckles have never hit the board which was their complaint
@@fordhouse8b Is the knife you are talking about the "tojiro fujiro slicer cutter 14.75"?
I recently bought the Mercer they recommend, and it's not sharp at all. I'm absolutely bewildered by all of the Amazon reviews and comments here talking about how sharp it is and how well it cuts into sourdough. It's awful at cutting into sourdough in my experience, it just glides along the crust instead of cutting into it. I can run my finger along the blade, no problem.
I would like to say that the Ninja Creami is awesome!
Mercer makes a great 6 inch chefs knife, perfect for smaller hands or if you just want and easier to handle all purpose knife!
Easily one of the best knives I’ve purchased thanks to ATK!
My daughter got me the winning knife for Christmas. She is a chef, she'll be happy you picked the one she chose.
I got my Mercer in purple, I love it!
Just ordered this on Amazon for less than $20. Can't wait to slice some homemade sourdough 😋
I bought this knife in 2023 and it was a great knife. Maybe it's because I make crusty loaves every week. But it's definitely not sharp anymore and hasn't been sharp in a long time. That's why I'm here looking up info on a new knife....If anyone has any recommendations ???
Does sharpening come in to play? Is that something that’s easy to do?
Sharpening a serrated knife can be done, but it will wear out the sharp points of the blade over time, unless done with some very specialized equipment and/or a lot of time and patience. Serrated knives, like non-stick pans, are generally best thought of as a consumable. Sure they last a lot longer than consumables like paper towels, but eventually they will simply wear out. This is why fancy All-Clad teflon pan will never be on my shopping list, and why it is so nice that the Mercer (at $24.40) is the third least lest expensive knife they tested, beaten out only by a Tojiro (a very sharp, but unergonomic and cheap looking knife), which was about $2.40 less, and also by the knife that came in dead last, another Mercer, which costs 13.92. So I would say, either live with having to replace your serrated knife once in a while, or don’t use one, but instead learn how to keep a non-serrated knife extremely sharp. Of course how long ‘once in while’ comes around depends a lot on how much you use the knife, and how well you take care of it. You should never ever use a knife on a glass cutting board, a granite or steel counter, a plate, etc, and that goes double for serrated knives. I happen to own both the winning and the one that came in last place, both Mercers, and they work for me.
Thank you so much for your insight! I’m with you with the nonstick, and I see now it just might be easier to buy a few of the Mercer bread knives when they go on sale. Thanks
I like my serrated knife is marvelous it’s a grate help for me when it comes to cutting just about anything I value mime. Thanks for your video.
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Any with points? Like an oversized steak knife?
After 2 years of using the mercer, I’d say it’s a no. The handle needs to be way more offset from the board surface. You are going to have to do very awkward things to cut through that bottom strip of crust. It’s such a simple fix. I’ll be buying something else.
I don’t know what type of cutting you’ve been doing, but I’ve got 3-4 years with that knife…so far, no complaints.
I agree!
@@frfsolrac77 I make a rustic loaf every week and that knife went so dull after about a year. Probably depends on what your use is. But I agree with @johnlocke3481.
I thought it would be Oxo good grips
All professional chefs know the best serrated knife is the victorinox pastry knife! Always my go to for slicing.
Hmm, if a knife is serrated, is sharpening/honing not possible with it?
@@sandrah7512 Thanks a lot. Didn't know it is possible to sharpen it.
Mercer knives are winning every knife category lately!
It’s all about the miracle blade bread knife
Good things to know - consider.
The best serrated knife is the Ginzu knife I bought off TV 50 years ago. Remember, all us old farts, it’s the one that sliced frozen veggie packages? The thing has worked all these years and it was probably $3.99. Going to pass it down to my granddaughter! When I’m dead.
Can’t beat a Wusthof!
The buy the winner popup that shows up in the video near the end - does not take you to the Mercer knife but to a Mac Knife that is $80!
I still have and use my mothers bread knife and it is over 50 years old.
I do love your gear reviews but I have to take exception to your comment simply dismissing knives with the more rounded “scalloped” serrations. I don’t understand this advice 🤷♂️. Some of the very best bread knives have these serrations. I agree that the Mercer is a great value however I own the Shun Classic you depict in your video clip “struggling” to break the surface of a hard crusted bread where the user is obviously applying no downward pressure at all and I can assure you that it is not the case with this knife. It excels at cutting this type of bread and won’t leave half the crumbs that the sharper serrations will.
Would be nice if you started to include IKEA equipment to your reviews
Happy New Year from California 🥳
I know you are kitchen oriented but can ATK look into best garden harvest knife (brassicas especially)?
The Mercer isn't sharp at all. It skids over the top of sourdough. I can run my finger along the blade, no problem. I don't understand all the Amazon reviews saying how sharp it is and how well it cuts crusty sourdough.
Can anyone recommend a better bread knife?
I bought my serrated knife in 1971 for $18.00 ($132.00 in today's currency) and it still performs great. One of the best buys for me.
When was this video made? The Mercer is $80 now
It's $14.99 on Amazon. Right now.
Where's my beloved Opinel bread knife? I was pleased that it satisfied all of your criteria and I got it super cheap on their website.
I'm glad y'all didn't recommend the tojiro because I don't want its price going up when I need to buy a replacement
Some people told me it was $20-30 years ago, but now it is 50+tax on Amazon.
@@cnxjdisozjb8147 looking back at the same one I bought in 2018, it's still $25 on Amazon. I'm not sure if Amazon in your region makes "adjustments" for your local cost of living
@@BatPotatoes That's weird, I am in Canada Ontario. It's 49.99+tax lol
@@cnxjdisozjb8147 well that explains it, the Canadian dollar is roughly half of the US dollar
But how do you sharpen a serrated knife?
Very carefully or not at all
still $25 here, great value
Where’s Lan?
I've always loved Bread knives.
Personally I’ve really taken a liking to the Mercer offset serrated knife I recently got; the offset design just makes it so much easier to saw through stuff.
I’ll probably have to get it sharpened somewhere down the line lol
Slicing tomatoes is not a test of sharpness. It's a test of blade thickness and taper. A dull knife with a thin taper / edge geometry will still cut. And because tomatoes vary in ripeness and are soft, there is a lot room for errors in testing. Please use industrially standardised tests for sharpness if you really want to access sharpness.
ATK uses the BESS sharpness testing system.
@@robertherman1146 They literally said in the video thes tested sharpness on tomatoes.
I know the have the system, I've seen them use it other videos. Makes it even more frustrating.
Does anybody make a serrated knife for left handed people? If you’re a lefty you’ll understand me. It is frustrating.
misono all the way... similar to your winner, but that Japanese quality is amazing, price is about 120 though :(.
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To each, his/her own. My money goes to Wusthof!
This is gonna sound like a joke but I swear it isn't: I've had great success using an insulation saw (or jab saw) as a bread knife, and you can get a fine one for like ten bucks.
We don't need to have the "best". We need "does the job" at "a good price".
I got mine on Amzn for less, it's a great knife!
Amazing how they just keep repeating their videos over and over again.
Amazing how you have no joy in your life
Product lines change within weeks.
@@butterboi1963 Ok, back to your cartoons now junior.
Every day I wake up and say a little prayer to thank those brave souls who complain on the internet about stuff they got for free.
You don’t have to watch. Honest. Just watch something else.
Am I alone in this? I got this Mercer knife and I'm not impressed?
Why not?
@@em1860 it didn't cut as cleanly and it crushed soft bread trying to slice through.
I got it too and it's not sharp at all. I can run my finger along the blade, no problem. It just glides on top of crusty sourdough rather than cut into it.
Any runner ups?
@@sandrah7512 Thanks for pointing that out I missed it.I`ll take the Mayabi Kaizen for $179.95! LMAO!
I sat tomato you say tomato she says tomater I cant afford a bead knife. Tomato tomato mater bread knife. Why is life so expensive.