I have found that I have 3 reoccurring preferences in knives.
1. Be affordable
2. Have a 50/50 grind
3. Be made of a hard and durable stainless (or close to it) steel
When purchasing knives in the past, I have been willing to go against each one of those preferences to accommodate the purchase of a knife I decided I want. 1. I have expensive knives, 2. one with an asymmetrical grind, and 3. some carbon steel knives.
I like every knife that I have bought in the process of going against my preferences. But to be honest, 90% of the time, when I use a knife in the kitchen, it ends up being my 240 Tojiro DP Gyuto, which covers all 3 of my preferences well. So, I feel no good reason to buy another knife. I really want reasons to buy other knives and especially reasons to buy non-Tojiro knives so that my cutting board sees something other than one brand meal after meal after meal after meal. Alas, no reasonable justification ever comes to mind anymore.
To my delight, SWMBO recently dropped her trusty Henckels Santoku - impressively we both just watched as it plummeted to the ground, neither of us reaching for it as it dove to its inevitable demise - shattering the scales away from the tang. Really I guess I could just epoxy the scales back in place, or maybe use some of my straight razor restoration skills to repair the poor discarded knife. But, SWMBO rather chose to task me with the responsibility of ordering a new knife for her. She explained that she wants "one that looks like my old knife, but fancy like your knives, with a pink handle"
Choosing to ignore the pink handle part of the request, I thought that this would at last be my chance to break from the Tojiro slump I am in and use the opportunity to order something different. Something that would, unlike my other non-Tojiro knives, undoubtledly see a lot of cutting board time since SWMBO is a one knife kind of person in the kitchen
Sadly, after weighing up the pros and cons of around 10 other Santoku options for her, ranging from MAC, Pro M, Fujiwara, Richmond, Masamoto, Misono, Hiromoto, etc., I settled on a clear winner. I ended up ordering an F-503 170mm Tojiro DP Santoku for her.
Stupid Tojiro, I just can't see good reason to buy another knife
1. Be affordable
2. Have a 50/50 grind
3. Be made of a hard and durable stainless (or close to it) steel
When purchasing knives in the past, I have been willing to go against each one of those preferences to accommodate the purchase of a knife I decided I want. 1. I have expensive knives, 2. one with an asymmetrical grind, and 3. some carbon steel knives.
I like every knife that I have bought in the process of going against my preferences. But to be honest, 90% of the time, when I use a knife in the kitchen, it ends up being my 240 Tojiro DP Gyuto, which covers all 3 of my preferences well. So, I feel no good reason to buy another knife. I really want reasons to buy other knives and especially reasons to buy non-Tojiro knives so that my cutting board sees something other than one brand meal after meal after meal after meal. Alas, no reasonable justification ever comes to mind anymore.
To my delight, SWMBO recently dropped her trusty Henckels Santoku - impressively we both just watched as it plummeted to the ground, neither of us reaching for it as it dove to its inevitable demise - shattering the scales away from the tang. Really I guess I could just epoxy the scales back in place, or maybe use some of my straight razor restoration skills to repair the poor discarded knife. But, SWMBO rather chose to task me with the responsibility of ordering a new knife for her. She explained that she wants "one that looks like my old knife, but fancy like your knives, with a pink handle"
Choosing to ignore the pink handle part of the request, I thought that this would at last be my chance to break from the Tojiro slump I am in and use the opportunity to order something different. Something that would, unlike my other non-Tojiro knives, undoubtledly see a lot of cutting board time since SWMBO is a one knife kind of person in the kitchen
Sadly, after weighing up the pros and cons of around 10 other Santoku options for her, ranging from MAC, Pro M, Fujiwara, Richmond, Masamoto, Misono, Hiromoto, etc., I settled on a clear winner. I ended up ordering an F-503 170mm Tojiro DP Santoku for her.
Stupid Tojiro, I just can't see good reason to buy another knife
Of course, just minutes after I have pulled the trigger on a Tojiro, 
