My wife and I spent around 6 months shopping for new knives. I know that seems ridiculous, but we have had so many poor sets of knives now. After trying out knives from friends and neighbors, we finally tried a set of Henckels, and loved them. We ordered the silver cap 16-piece set, and could not be happier. It comes with more steak knives than most sets we looked at, all of the knives are incredibly sharp, feel great in your hands, and are great for cutting. They outshine our last set of knives, which were Oster knives. The old knives needed sharpening all the time, and showed signs of rust. While we've only had these for about a week, I couldn't be happier.