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A Kyocera ceramic santoku knife after ten years of use, with a white blade and black handle

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Ten Years With a Kyocera Ceramic Knife

I have used the same white ceramic santoku almost every day for ten years, and have never sharpened it once. Here is what it is good at, and the one thing that chipped it.

  • Ten years of daily use
  • Never sharpened once
  • Chipped it on frozen meat
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Japanese things, reviewed by someone who lives here. Written by atman-33, one person living in Japan, with a background in manufacturing and software.

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