Originally Posted by Anthony Bourdain
Most of the professionals I know have for years been retiring their Wusthofs and replacing them with the lightweight, easy-to-sharpen and relatively inexpensive vanadium steel Global knives, a very good Japanese product which has - in addition to its many other fine qualities - the added attraction of looking really cool.
What is he talking about? Global is about 50% more expensive than a comparable Wusthof/Henckel knife.
That said, I recently inherited this
Global 5 1/2" vegetable knife and it instantly became my favorite knife. But at $80, it's not cheap for a mid-size knife.