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We put an 8-inch Japanese chef knife through a month of real cooking. Here’s our honest verdict on the Imarku — where it excels, where it falls.

After months of heavy use in our test kitchen, we put the MAC Mighty MTH-80 through every brutal task imaginable. Here’s our honest mac knives.

We put Yoshihiro’s VG10 Damascus Gyuto through a month of heavy kitchen use. Is this Japanese chef knife worth the premium? One blade.