Trying to buy a knife recently there are some that are $10, some $50 and all the way up to $300+. I understand that there are differences in the quality of the steel and its hardness and how long it holds its edge for. However there isn't a clear difference in features at the different price points apart from I assume more expensive works better somehow.
For the non-specialist, by which I mean someone like me who cooks daily and would like a good tool but doesn't care about the marginal gains, what is the right level to buy?
- I'm assuming like a lot of things there's an 80/20 principle where you get 80% of the benefits after a certain expenditure and then next few hundred bucks are squeezing out the last few percent
