Product Description

The Good Grips 8" Chef's Knife fits comfortable in your hands while you do your chopping! The fine-edge stainless steel blade cuts, slices and dices smoothly. Its soft, cushioned handle won't slip out of a wet hand - and absorbs pressure for a comfortable grip.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #65760 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: Oxo
• Model: 22581
• Dimensions: 1.00" h x 2.00" w x 12.38" l, .50 pounds

Features

• Soft rubber handle is nonslip, wet or dry
• Handle absorbs tension
• Stainless-steel blade is sharp and fine-edged
• Ultimate for chopping and dicing
• Safe to use in dishwasher

Amazon.com Review
The fine, sharp blade on this 8-inch chef's knife makes for smoothchopping and dicing. The stainless-steel blade is durable anddependable, enabling you to produce full, even cuts.

The Good Grips line features durable, nonslip flexible handles on every product. Ergonomically designed to fit the palm comfortably and softly, the pressure-absorbing processed rubber handle puts less tension on the hands, while providing an outstanding grip. Made from the same material dishwasher gaskets are constructed of, the handles are slip-proof, wet or dry, as well as dishwasher-safe. Good Grips products are moderately priced and have won the Tylenol/Arthritis Foundation Design Award. --Laurie Notaro

Customer Reviews

Very good, but not perfect
There are 3 main reasons people cut themselves with knives: 1) bad technique, 2) bad knife handle, 3) dull knife blade (you have to struggle to cut and then you slip). This knife solve the knife handle problem wonderfully. It also should give you no problem with sharpness if you have a knife sharpener. This is not one of the great chef's blades that can have a lot of use before requiring resharpening.

If you have a good French Chef knife and have no problem with the handle (some are just so big and hard to grip!), do not bother with this knife. If you need a decent Chef knife and are willing to sharpen it occasionally, this is a good buy. (You have to sharpen ANY knife eventually.)

I am a quadriplegic/tetraplegic (C5-6 if you care) and I love this knife. Not for its mediocre blade, but for its handle. I have 1/3 use of my hands and 1/2 use of my arms, but I have no problem using the grippy handle on this knife. I own an expensive French Chef knife with a BETTER BLADE, but I use this one far more often because of the BETTER HANDLE.

My Mom has mild arthritis and she loves this knife, too.

For Starters
This is an absolutely fabulous knife for the price, and is the perfect gift for the person who is setting up their first kitchen. I was surprised the edge was so finely honed. This knife will prove to be a wonder for those who are not used to such a fine edge.

Grrrreat knife for the price!
I admit, I'm a bit of a kitchen knife fanatic. Although I had many fine European and Japanese knives far more costlier than the Oxo Good Grips, I always liked my Good Grips 8" Chef's knives (owned 2). But I only really started using it after it was properly sharpened (on my Chef's Choice 120 sharpener), because it isn't very sharp out of the box. I used it instead of my better chef's knives, because it can take abuse and you don't worry about damaging the blade!

They made great choices in the compromises needed for a knife at this price. The blade (of stamped stainless steel) is a little on the thin side, but despite not being high carbon, it can be sharpened to a pretty sharp degree, and will keep its edge reasonably well. It is also terribly easy to sharpen, because the handle is well away from the blade and there is no bolster to get in the way. I also like the fact that it has a great geometry to the blade, making for good rocking action when chopping, and the blade is wider than many expensive chef's knives, making for easy work of crushing garlic. The handle (made of rubber coated plastic) is perhaps its greatest asset, offering a nice, firm comfortable grip even when wet. Its drawbacks is not very good balance (because of a light blade), and because it is a lightweight knife, it will require a little more effort than a (more expensive) heavier knife, when a "crushing action" is necessary.

Because of the relative thinness of the stamped blade, it's possible that it may be a little 'dished'. So check the spine of the knife you buy to be sure it isn't warped. I've recently discovered the Oxo Good Grips MV-55 Pro line, and the chef's knife in that line is actually about a thousand times better than this one, so its currently my favorite kitchen knife. But nevertheless, the basic Good Grips knife is easily one of the best [inexpensive] knives you can buy, and heartily recommended for most experts and novices alike in the home kitchen.