steak on a wooden board with a pat of butter on top and a few slices carved off - Valentyn Volkov/Shutterstock A sharp knife is critical for slicing beef, but it's hard to know if a knife with a flat, ...

Which steak knife is best? When serving a beautiful buttery fillet or sirloin, the last thing you want your guests to have to do is wrestle with the meat because their knife is blunt or poorly made.

Allie has been Lifehacker’s Food Writer since 2021. She earned her bachelor’s degree at Ithaca College in drama and studied at the Institute of Culinary Education to earn her diploma in Pastry and ...

Personally, I prefer non-serrated knives so I can smoothly slice into the meat. With serrated knives, I feel like I'm sawing through my meat and I waste all the the little muscle fibers that get ...

Cutting through protein requires a blade with a particular set of characteristics — it doesn’t have to be big, but it should be agile. To help all you carnivores, we talked to experts to find the ...