If you cook, you use knives. There's no way around it. No matter your dietary preferences and restrictions, cuisine of choice, or even skill level, you need a reliable knife anytime you're cooking.

An curved arrow pointing right. Quality Damascus knives can cost over $5,000. Their signature swirl pattern comes from layering two different alloys and folding them over each other, sometimes ...

With the Placoid knife, that term could refer to the general shape of the blade, but with the Damascus version, have you ever ...

Metallurgists have puzzled for several centuries as to how the unique patterns on the ancient Damascus blades were formed. Using a modern metallurgical computational software package, the relevant ...

Owen forges a modern Damascus knife using a pattern-welding technique practised in the Iron Age. This method, which involves combining different types of steel, was invented to give strength to ...