Great for home cooking - chopping and prepping vegetables. It is all that a professional could want. It is tough and it is hard. It will stand up to hours of work and hold an edge for months on end. That's because it has 133 layers of super-premium steel, ice hardened to 66 on the Rockwell. All that means to me is that I love cutting with every one of these knives. It is effortless. It makes my strokes elegant and I easily get into a rhythm when I am using a Miyabi Black. I love this line!