I love how this set of knives come with both a chef's knife and a santoku knife! I love using the santoku for cutting my vegetables since it has the ovals on the sides that help the vegetables not stick while I'm cutting them and the chef's knife is a great all around knife. I love the handles on these knives because it is nicely curved to my hand. It's great that this set comes with steak knives so that I didn't need to purchase them separately and they are easily access since they are right on the counter with the rest of the knives.