Morphy Richards Accents 974829 5 Piece Knife Block with High Grade Polished Stainless Steel, Ivory Cream

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One knife is designed for general slicing, chopping and peeling, while the serrated knife is ideal for tomatoes and other softer fruit and veg. Once opened, the packaging revealed a very comprehensive knife set which is ideal for enthusiastic cooks. Both the insert and the bottom can be removed for cleaning, and both can go in the dishwasher – as can the knives, though hand washing is recommended.

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The 8-inch chef knife is perfect for mincing, slicing and chopping vegetables as well as jointing large cuts of meat. The paring knife and utility knife both cut remarkable smoothly, easy to navigate around fiddly fruit stones and tomato skins safely. These are four knives for cooking rather than all kitchen tasks – there is no bread knife, for example and this particular set doesn’t come with a paring knife. This is a straightforward, traditional-looking, unflashy knife set for those who enjoy home cooking and the set contains all the knives you need to accomplish every task. This is not a knife set for a small kitchen – it requires as much room as a kettle would in both width and depth, primarily due to its unique selling point: the integrated knife sharpener.We used the knives for two weeks to test the effectiveness of the sharpener (as the instructions suggest) and found three strokes created a blade that sliced effortlessly through paper. The five knives should cover every kitchen task you’d need and the scissors are a welcome bonus, too. One of these two would no doubt become your go-to knife for most tasks so it really is a matter of personal choice which you prefer.

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It's a bulky but undeniably useful addition, which sits to the right of the knives in the block and is intuitive to us, with a lever that runs the length of the knife blade in a controlled, smooth motion.If doing this, wrap them really carefully – put the tips in corks, for instance, or wrap them thickly with newspaper or bubble wrap, secured with tape. They are comfortable to hold with a ridge between handle and blade to protect fingers from slipping.

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Together, we're striving to make a positive impact on the environment and create a sustainable future. Each knife has a different coloured handle including lime and fuchsia, and blades are stainless steel. While we mainly used paring knives to cut cherries during this test, the utility knife here was more than up to the task. A full tang knife is one where the blade is a single piece of metal running the whole length (as opposed to the handle being attached to the blade) and is generally thought to be stronger.The knives themselves felt light and comfortable to use (some may find them too lightweight) with finger guards for extra safety.

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Swan will authorise an exchange providing the fault is beyond economical repair and the service company have generated a fault reference number to reflect this. While the black-handled knives with flush rivets look traditional, the knife block itself is clever and innovative. The serrated slicing knife is very effective for bread but is more versatile than that, as you can use it for tomatoes and fruit. These aren’t marked and there were occasions when, replacing all the knives in one go, we were left with the last one not fitting in the remaining slot, meaning we had to rearrange them.The paring knife is a good size for smaller cutting tasks while the chef’s knife is ideal for cutting meat and larger veg. The bigger knives worked their way efficiently through the tougher fruits, while the smaller ones diced everything without much effort. This means that for the time being a few features may be missing, but we’re working hard to get it all up and running as soon as we can. The bread knife was also the heaviest of all those tested – yes we weighed it – and felt particularly solid. They were pleasingly sharp, though we found the bread knife needed a little bit of effort to get through our very crusty home-baked loaf.