ISO a nice cheap pack of knives for home.

[babaliaris]

Originally Posted by CakePoet

Ah your are Crete. Yeah is the main land the only place with an IKEA? I cant remember I do have Greek friend born on Crete working at IKEA.

I hope you find a knife and that you can afford it.

IKEA is very far from where i live.

[CakePoet]

I guessed so, I think it is just a office there. Yeah Im about an hour or two from any IKEAs and I live in the province where IKEA started.

But check out Victorinox, there knifes has yet to become mega popular and therefor cheaper then global.

[skilletlicker]

Congratulations.

That's a better choice than the set you were looking at. It will certainly be sharp right out of the box. Consider getting a sharpening steel to keep the edge honed. Steels don't actually sharpen the blade but they do help the edge last longer between sharpenings.

I hope you decide to get a sharpening stone also. I like the two-sided kind. 200/1000, oil or water, for knives in bad shape or starting a new edge from scratch. 4000/8000 waterstone for maintaining an edge.

Lots of good information on YouTube on how to properly use the chefs knife and maintain the edge.