Cutco, Usana... 有無聽過... 日记

IcySugar

Cutco, Usana... 有無聽過...
對呢d公司有咩感覺... 哈哈哈

lo_pak

回復 1# IcySugar

Cutco wow, you should have heard their brand long time ago...
They produce very durable knife set. At the same time, they are quite expensive, cost you about $1K for a set. I have a pair of scissors that can easily cut penny into half using only 1 hand...

IcySugar

Yes Yes... I hav used cutco scissors n knife be4... HAHA...
I think they r great 2... just expensive... LOL
I m just wondering ppl's feeling towards the company... not the product haha...

lo_pak

回復 3# IcySugar

My sister has been working for Cutco long time ago in the summer when she was still in grade 12 (Lowest rate + commission). If it can stand for that many years, history proves...

Prelude

Cutco knives is crappy, so crappy that it's funny, and people buy them because of the marketing.
Their steel is the lowest end of the lowest end.  If you take a look of the edge of their knives with microscope, you will see it's dull.  Their steak knives totally depends the serrated bumps to tear through the steaks instead of real sharpness, which seems work for normal c9, but the meat is just teared apart instead of cutting.  Real good knives are strong as in elastic (so they don't chip), and soft as in it can be sharpened to the thinnest edge and still won't break off.  Cutco's edge is not even as well, it's just has random angle, and wide angle too.  The edge flips from V shape to L shape on first use, then when you try to sharpen it, it flips to the left , it won't stay as V.  But you need good eyes to see or feel it with finger. The edge keeps on flipping.  So you are actually cutting with the side of the edge instead of the edge.   Overall, it doesn't matter to rich c9 or normal newbies, because they don't know what's going on, they only need to feel good about it after they were told it's good stuff.  It's "usable", but for this price, you can get the best handcraft knives from the top 10 masters in Japan.  Even the highly-hyped  http://www.global-knife.com/ knives are better deal than them.  Cutco knives are stamped out of machine like toys too.

Company-wise, I don't like Cutco once I found out how cheap the knives are and how much profit they get from it.

Prelude

http://www.cheftalk.com/forum/th ... o-knives#post_98326

Here is some info about it.

tiffiant

miss some old products

pkphilip

Cutco looks impressive, I was "lured" into their presentation. Then I was like.. who the f will buy a set of knife for $1000? Their stuff is still impressive for what it could do. I didn't really care about the quality of the steel, but if it cuts and last.. that would be my only concern.

Usana is just a brand that sells health drugs. I only use their "Essential", which include a bottle of multi-vitamin and Anti-Oxidant. Since I only get sick 3-4 times a year, and I have no big health issues.. I guess it works???

Still.. both of these companies are using pyramid scheme to get people working for them.

Philip

somewhereintime

回復 2# lo_pak
    Know hundred of people selling Cutco, to me, it is a cheap made utensil and you pay for its marketing expense;    As a master chef ,  I own 200 good pro kitchen knives, but no Cutco.
    Any pro cook who use knives everyday would not consider cutco.
    Cutting rope with my Sabatier? you must be kidding.
    Nothing cut rope better than Olfa, and it is only $5.
    I never keep any warranty  that come with knives, I know and trust the brands and they never let me down.
    Just try to cut a piece of fish for sushi with the most expensive cutco knife and look at it yourself.

somewhereintime

回復 8# pkphilip


    Impressive is only for the marketing trick,
    it is not practical for professional at all.    I would not recommend to use it for any cutting other than apple and oranges.
    Anyone want to give it to me as a gift, I would take 3 Victorinox instead