Welcome Mitch and great post. So your from Glocktalk ,then you should definitly check out our Gecko 45 thread.

I noticed that a lot of people have been neglecting a good kitchen knife when really that is the most important knife of the set because you use it the most.
I bet lots of people here have several good folders a dozen choppers and camp knives and use a 5$ chinese knife to prepare food every day. The women in my family used to be terrible for paying 300$ for a pair of shoes they used twice a year for 5 years but would not pay more than 10$ for a kitchen knife they used every day for 40 years. I ended up buying them all good kitchen knives for XMass etc.

Now they are true believers though. Having a nice knife makes cooking much less of a chore and much more like playing with a nice knife.

If I had to pick 1 nice knife and could only have cheap 5$ knives for everything else I would get a first rate kitchen knife because it can do pretty much everything. It is certainly a heck of a lot nicer to take camping than a camp knife is to make dinner.

My friend actually only has 2 good knives matched set of a small Henkels pearing knife and their chefs knife and he gets by quite fine. They are the really nice double guy Henkels though. The pearing knife would even make a good EDC with a nice sheath and I have been lusting after his big one for a while now.

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