I was looking for the MAC 60/40 degree bevelled straight edge slicer which is fantastic quality for similar £££ but out of stock
Also very good …
https://www.kitchenknives.co.uk/knives/slicing-knives/masahiro-27cm-slicer-knife/
I have purchased this for a fiver from Nisbets in Northampton. Somebody used our old one as some sort of screwdriver/lever type thing and the end fell off.
Ordered a Santoku (?) as I sorted of fancied a new choppy knife.
Quite like the Victorinox stuff. Was researching fancy Damascus steel stuff, but fuck foo knives.
Victorinox is a really solid object for a good quality but inexpensive foo free knive, I use several of them as my go to choices when I am cooking professionally.
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Made me realise how blunt a couple of my others are. They were supposed to be half decent from solingen. If they don’t sharpen up I will get some more from nisbets.
Have a victorinox larding/ slicing knife that is very good.
Buy cheap and throw away when they get blunt 
You have lost me there.
First post on HiFi forum so why not contribute to a knives thread. I spent a fair amount on Wusthof after owning Victorinox for a number of years. Whilst the fancy ones are nice and feel a bit better weighted in the hand, for day to day cooking the Victorinox at 20% of the price are equally as capable. They also take a nice edge.
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The other company to look at is Mac (not the makeup people). They’re a bit more than the Victorinox knives, but seem to be where industry folks tend to go after Victorinox. Certainly my brother (restaurant chef for about a 8 years now) said that if he was starting over again, that’s where he’d be looking). After that you’re definitely starting to get into the more esoteric stuff.
Might smart a bit.
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Mac the Knives then. Cool.
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Welcome aboard. This is a sensible post. Please cease and desist with posts of this type as you will make the rest of the ‘content’ on the site look silly.
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*sillier
And welcome Tony, I think you already have the measure of the place
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MAC are excellent , they have a budget and better quality ranges but all are good, their carvers and bread knives 
Treated myself to a new choppy knife. Glad I did as it is way better than the old one.
Tis a Victorinox fibrox.
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Yup, I’m a big fan. They’re not what I’d buy if I could spend a shit ton on knives, but as an economical knife option, they’re pretty fucking solid. It also means I don’t feel too invested if something happens to one whilst I am using it for work. Their pastry knife as a bread knife is an absolute belter, even if I had the money I’d never get a different one.
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Found a fibrox pastry/slicing knife in a box of crap left in the loft by an ex-girlfriend.
Bloody brilliant thing.
I had sharpened my old knife as best I could. The edge kept chipping slightly though. Cutting stuff with new knife is remarkably easier. Quite surprised.
Had to show id for age at Nisbets. Should be flattered, but wtf.
Have a few old knives to get rid of now. Will pop them down the local youth club or summat.
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Local police station appreciates that kind of thing
Leave them out on the garden wall free to passers by 
its remarkable what they’ll take - my AK47 went in no time at all, but the used radiator took days.
I have a £10 off code for Nisbets if anybody can use it. Valid for about a month iirc.