Christmas Corner

Friends and family have asked me repeatedly over the years, “Why don't you design a kitchen knife?” Well, I finally said yes, especially after my wife, who is a master cook, started complaining about the quality and performance of our personal kitchen knives. And this is the first one that I designed. That’s a fib. Our Model #1 Chef’s Knife is probably about the 20th design I tried before I hit the right one, and one my wife approved of. 

There were always things that were just plain wrong about the designs in all of the culinary and chef's knives that were already out there. 

I always have three goals in mind whenever I design any knife. They are performance, safety, and comfort. Each one is as equally important as any of the others because if even one of those traits isn't fully addressed, you just have a piece of junk that will either fail you or hurt you, and it will end up where it belongs, in your kitchen junk drawer with all the other knives you'll never use.

We tested a great number of well-known (and sometimes very expensive) chef's knives during the development of this design. And finally, I concluded that almost all culinary designs were about the blade, the blade-the blade. But the blade is only half of the knife. Little to no attention was ever given to the attributes of safety or comfort. 

Well, I've been designing high performance knives for the hardest knife users on the planet for over 40 years, and now I've used that experience-hard-earned experience and reputation to bring you the Emerson Culinary Collection, knives that will faithfully serve all your cooking and culinary needs. For a professional chef's kitchen or the master home cook, these groundbreaking designs, unique in both size and shape, along with the new Emerson ergonomic safety handle, will be a joy to use in any kitchen for decades to come.