TACRAY Folding Kitchen Chef Knife, 4.4" Foldable Camping Knife with 10cr15mov Stainless Steel Blade, Anti-skidding and Ergonomic Designed G10 Handle for both Indoor and Outdoor Cooking

I've been using this knife for more than one year now. Oddly, it has become one of my most used knives. I sat oddly because when I bought it I didn't predict how much I would like this knife. I don't use it as a general EDC knife. It's main use is food prep, meat slicing, and light camp tasks. I smoke and BBQ weekly year round and that's where this knife shines for me. I can trim briskets with it pre smoking, chop garlic and onions, slice veggies, or anything else cooking related. It's not made of made of m390 or 15v so it's nit going to cut for 6 months without touching up, but the edge holds for a few food sessions and touches up very easily on a ceramic rod or strop. That's perfectly fine with me. The blade is fairly thin so it slices just fine through food. I put a 15º per side edge on it and it performs as well as any of my dedicated kitchen knives. The handle design is such that there is plenty of knuckle clearance when cutting so you can use the entire blade on a cutting board without your knuckles getting in the way. It is build like a true food knife. The obvious benefit of this thing is that it's a folding knife so when you're cooking outdoors you can just fold it and stick it in your apron or jeans pocket safely. It's very handy in that way. One of the best features is the button lock. This thing is designed like a spyderco compression lock, but wit a button. The lock is one of it's best features. I really like it a lot. Rust resistance is important in a knife like this. I'll be honest and tell you that im not alway quick to clean it. I often leave it for hours with meat and vegetable juices on it. I always clean it, but it's often at the end of the day. I have had zero issues with corrosion. Im sure it will rust, but you really have to abuse it. Don't abuse your knives. Overall im absolutely thrilled with this knife. I would be even if it were $100+, but it's not. This is one of the best "bang for your buck" knives I own. And lastly.... I've never claimed to be the brightest bulb. It took me months to realize that I can use the thumb hole as a bottle opener. I have no idea if that was an intentional design or not. But it works and I don't have to carry around a separate bottle opener now for beenlrs at the cookout. Just use it with the knife folded, not with the blade extended. Tacray hit it out of the park with this knife.

I bought this because of a recent obsession with folding chef knives. It certainly delivered! The blade is beautifully finished and has a decent edge on it. It's not shaving sharp but I think a good stropping will take of that. Otherwise the shape is awesome. The handle is really great feeling! The scales are pretty solid feeling and have a great texture to them. It definitely won't slip under use. The action has some stick but that's common with button locks. It does lock up really solidly with no blade play. Mine came pretty tight, like it's not capable of opening with one hand. I don't think that's necessary with this knife. Overall, I feel like you get your money's worth with this knife. It would be nice if it came sharper though. But the fit and finish is excellent. I'd recommend this knife if you're looking for an unnecessarily large folding knife!

Love it. I actually use this knife everyday for cooking food in the kitchen or when camping out. I use my smaller EDC pocket knife for other small cooking tasks and this isn’t suitable for replacing a fillet knife, but it handles about 90% of the stuff I slice and chop up. I like to keep it as sharp as possible. I find it fairly easy to keep sharp but that depends on what I’m cooking, just like any knife it does require me to sharpen from time to time. I’m not sure what metal but it doesn’t wear away very quickly when sharpening on diamond flat stones, it seems pretty strong stuff compared to my pocket knife which is getting worn away on the stones much faster. The only issue I’ve had is occasionally almost pressing the lock release button when cutting something because of my grip and its position on the knife when choking up tight on the handle. It’s a big button sticking out so it’s easy to press, which is very convenient actually because it makes it super quick and easy to fold up and stow when you want to. Just have to be conscious of it when cutting and keep your grip far away from it, don’t want to close this thing on your fingers! I made myself a leather holster, keep it on my belt when I am cooking. My step son is insane unfortunately so I can’t have any knives in the drawer anymore and have to keep my knife on me! Crazy but that’s the reason for getting this knife to begin with. So I’m very glad there is someone who is making folding chef knives like this that you can keep on your body easily. For my purposes it works excellent.

I have been looking for this knife for many years. A folder, with a thin blade, designed solely for kitchen work. I love knives and have high standards. This knife achieves it intended purpose beautifully. The geometry of the whole knife is wonderful. The blade geometry chops and slices beautifully. The blade has resistance to opening by accident. The button lock works great. The construction is simple and sturdy. The g10 is grippy even covered in fats and oils. It is perfect for traveling. I bought 2 and will probably buy more. Very, very well done folding kitchen blade. Edit: I just got back from a week fishing in Sarasota. I used this both the small and large versions of this knife. I made ceviche, salads, prepared fresh fish, and a lot of other snacks and veggie trays for my family. I also used the blades to chop up fish carcasses to be used as chum and bait chunks. I purposely cut through heads, spines, tails to test the durability of the blade. These knives are excellent. They handle like Japanese knives like santokus and gyutos. After a week of chopping I steeled the blade and stropped it. It still shaves hair. There is zero edge damage and no flat spots. The vg-10 heat treat is spot on. The blade is tough enough to chop fish carcasses and not chip and yet still retain a hair popping edge after a week of heavy use. FINALLY, a great folding chef knife for traveling. Keep the new models coming Tacray, I'll try every one!

I think this knife is a good deal for the money, I have some pros and cons. The design is great, the handle ergonomics and blade shape are both great. The materials are great, idk if the blade is 10cr or vg10 (the product listing mentions both of those) but I can say that it has at least a decent heat treat. I've carried it for 3 shifts at work and done a good bit of light cutting, and I easily stropped it back to sticky sharp afterwards. The g10 scales are nice and they remind me of spyderco g10. The hardware is minimal, and the lock seems pretty safe. The detent is strong enough but a little light in my opinion. My complaints: fit and finish, and the lack of a pocket clip. The pivot is free-spinning and I havent been able to center the blade. My knife also has some side-to-side play in the open and closed position. There is also a little bit of detent lash when the blade is closed; the detent catches the blade a little bit before the blade hits the stop pin, so when you push on the closed blade you can feel a little more travel towards the stop pin. And no pocket clip. On day 3 of carrying the knife loose in my pocket, it opened a little bit and cut a hole in my pocket. A pocket clip and a slightly stronger detent would definitely fix this. Overall it's worth the money. If Tacray put a pocket clip on it and improved the fit and finish I would buy 2 more. I won't carry it anymore because of the hole it made in my pocket, and honestly I'm a little bit disappointed because I like the knife. I have civivis, we knives, demkos etc. But this cheap knife is actually pretty enjoyable.

Absolutely amazing chest knife great for traveling and carrying with luggage stays sharp for a long time and performs like a fixed blade

Its a great kitchen knife and outdoor kitchen knife that is very slicy, sharp knife once it has a 15 degree edge on it. I think mine came in at around 17.5 degrees. With vg 10 steel with new profile it cuts great. I don't have a problem carrying it as a edc knife cutting up boxes with this knife as it sharpens up so easy. wish it came with a belt holder which I did get one for it and it makes it a better all purpose edc with a big blade. with the big belly and a high handle cutting veggies fruit and using it as a steak knife is not a problem. I do use wooden plates for steak. all I have done to keep it sharp for the last 4 months is a quick touch up on a 3000 ceramic rod and if it needs a little more refining I'll use the 2500 grit ceramic spyderco stone and strop with 2 micron diamond paste. when Im outdoors I carry this knife with one of many edc knives I have just because I like this knife to carry on my belt. Its lightweight and comfortable in the hand. worth every dollar.

Wow im awed in a good way just how awesome this knife is..seriously I dunno what some have an issue with on this knife..a lot more solid that you expect ..solid lockup...literally a paper laser ...be super easy to sharpen up too...i may get the smaller version just because ...it can serve just as well in any arena if it had to