Who Makes The Sharpest Knives?

Are American knives sharper than Japanese knives? Let's talk about that. Good Mythical Morning. Today we answer a question that is so pointed, so penetrating, so on the cutting edge. We've been forced to let Link use a knife. Aren't you a cutie? Get it, because you're pointy.

Acute-ie. And not just any knife, an incredibly sharp knife. That's a Japanese life, uh, life. You're gonna be okay. Life taker, Japanese life taker. And Link is going to, uh, tell you about that in a second. I have an American steel knife. Yes, it is smaller. It's not for food, it's for tactility. But it doesn't necessarily mean that it's not as good of a knife. That's what we're gonna find out.

We're gonna see which one of these is the sharpest knife in the world, or at least the. sharpest in this studio on this very day. All righty. Um, first we need to sharpen, actually, we need to sharpen yours. Yes. Because mine's already sharp. For some reason. I don't get to do that. Yep. We're not, we weren't gonna let you do this. Uh, but just to show you, in case you're wondering, you can sharpen your own knives. And this has been sharpened right up to the very last, uh, level. So I'm just doing the finishing touches on this. The belt on that thing is the finest.

Oh. There's a guy at the farmer's market near me that does this. I'm cool. Uh, Rhett's knife. The Magnacut Tactical Knife is like $150, my. Now, bend over because, you weren't supposed to start talking about my knife. I'm gonna paddle you a little bit. Uh, no thank you. I've had this the whole time. No, thank you. This is in case, this is in case you misbehave.

If you do anything naughty with that knife, I'm gonna spank you. Actually, this is, what do you call this, Lucas? Strop. Strop. Strop. Strap. And I'm just going to run it down one side. Yes. Backwards. Yeah. And then run it down, another one. Perfect. So what did you. Buffalo. What did you just do? Uh, any. Oh, this is made of Buffalo. Any little burrs that I created in the sharpening process. In a good way. Okay. So yes. Ooh, that's gonna hurt. As Link was saying, this is the Magnacut Technical Knife, $150.

Magnacut is a powdered metallurgy stainless steel developed specifically for knives. It's very new, 2021. Okay, so basically it's really popular in the knife in the knife. community, which Lucas is a member of. Yeah. Um. He's a, he's a knife carrying member. And, and it is basically known, uh, for breaking some very. long held metallurgy rules. According to, uh, the experts, you can have edge retention, toughness,

and corrosion resistance, but you can only have two out of three. Unless, you're a Magnacut, in which you can have all three of those things. You, you should be wearing like a microphone at like a flea market. I would've loved to do that. Just selling these things to people who gather around your booth. So it can do all this stuff, and also, you know the guy who. created this, Dr. Larrin Thomas. He's the author of one of Lucas's favorite blogs, Knife Steel Nerds.

I've heard enough about your dumb American knife because my Japanese. knife, which retails for 230 bucks. This thing right here is Aogami Super. Not Aogami number one or two steel. This is as close as you're gonna get to the steel that the Samurai used on their swords. Uh, the Aogami Super Steel Gyuto. Yes.

Okay, which translates to cow sword because you're basically sorting through beef. Yes. So this is for cooking and showing off your knife skills because you haven't. been allowed to do that until today. Okay, so we're going to do, in this first round, some paper products. Okay? And I am going to be periodically using this Cuisinart knife. This is a $20 knife.

Ooh. And a lot of people, I would say, most people. End up just going and getting like a $20 knife like this, and hoping that it will. do the work of these more expensive knives. And we're, this has been sharpened as sharp as we can make it. Mm-hmm. Which Lucas said you couldn't get this one as sharp as these, just because. the quality of steel is not as good. And we're gonna find out if that makes a difference in cutting different things. Let's, let's start with the goodie though. Do a little paper, paper strike. Paper shave. Okay. Oh, there we go.

Oh. Okay. Can you keep, can you replicate that? No. Lucas, am I doing anything wrong? No. You're not cutting it right. You're not cutting the paper. Pull the knife away from you a little bit more. Yeah, that's it. Let, let me try. Yeah, so if you pull the knife. At the same time that you, oh man. Oh God. Almost got a little bit of that thumb.

Yeah, hey don't, don't start so close to your finger, man. Don't start so close to your finger. Look at that. You're getting, just don't go so close to your finger. I'm not going that close to my finger. You are, I'm sitting here watching you. Alright, here I am gonna do it from over here. I'm starting over. Yeah. Can we momentarily trade knives just to make sure that it's not bad technique on my part? Yeah.

Can I try your knife? There you go. I'm gonna try your knife. Let's just see what the diff is. Okay. Oh god. Oh god. Your knife is so much better than mine. Oh my gosh. You don't think it's user error, huh? Yeah, Japan is taking this round, but let's just see. Oh man. It's so smooth. Oh, it's so nice. So.

Gimme, gimme back my knife. Lucas, what I was told, here's your, your knife is down. Yeah, yours is. You see how I'm just inventing knife etiquette, knife is down. I don't even know that's what you're supposed to say, but it just comes natural to me. Knife is down. Is that the kind of thing that it. It's knife on the table. Knife on the table? Yeah. Knife on the table. This is pretty good. So the thing I heard one person say one time in passing. Was that the strength of an American steel knife was its durability and like. it's for, especially for somebody who is like a home chef who wants a good.

knife but may not take great care of it and sharpen it very often, but an. American steel knife is a better choice. Yeah. It, it's, it's better for long-term edge retention, which as you said is. one of the big three requirements. Um, but again, you guys have two kind of different styles of knife and, uh, Link's has a higher sliciness because of the blade profile. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Here, try. Here. Yes. Try your paper towel roll, because I, I think yours is gonna do a lot of.

Paper towel roll. No. Here's what, what I would do. Before you do that, I would hold it. My hands are so sweaty. I would hold it like this. I'm so excited. And then I would just do it like that. What about that? Oh, that's nice. That's cool. I'm really having to work like an American over here.

We're hard, we're hardy folks. Yes. Yes. We really have to. Yes. We have to saw through our, our paper towel rolls. I, I really, I, I'm, I'm just really feeling this. Yeah. Most of collecting knives is doing that. I think we, I believe we may have created a monster. I mean, look at me. It, it's, it's a bit slippery. Oh gosh. Oh, no. Hey, you gotta be careful.

Be, hey, don't, don't just start throwing the knife around. Hey, hey, hey, be careful. I, I don't want you cutting through the episode and revealing tomorrow's episode. Don't make up crap just so I don't, knife it up. Oh, you think I'm making that up? I mean, everybody here knows that the way this show works is that tomorrow's episode. is right underneath today's episode. It's always been that way. Uhhuh. Yeah. So if I just go here and now cut through. I don't remember that. Yeah, I know you don't remember that because that hasn't happened yet. It happens tomorrow.

We don't think we should actually go through it. Well, I think the Japanese knife is clearly the winner this round. Yeah. And it's also the user is the winner. Me. Okay. I realize I just forgot to test the Cuisinart, I read your comments. Okay. It's, not bad.

What are we gonna do next? Okay, well, I'm just saying the Cuisinart's pretty good at cutting paper. That's all. It was, yeah, we did learn that. Uh, we're gonna cut one of my hairs. Apparently you can split hairs. Well, you know what they say? Splitting hairs. Yeah, so. It's, it's basically something that's not worth doing. They do say that. So you, you gonna get one and then. I'm gonna, here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna take this, I'm gonna take my hair down so I can just get. Okay, I, I mean, you can leave it attached if you want. So I can easily get one.

Hand. Oh. Oh man. What was that noise? That was your scalp? Yeah. Slopping against your skull. This, this, my hair's holding on tight to my head, buddy. Put a, you you got more than one too. And I know we need a close up. Dylan, can you bring the camera out here. We're gonna like shoot you, you, film against my shirt with his dark hair and then. 'cause I'm gonna hold this. I'm gonna, I'm gonna dental floss it. Okay, so now I've, I've flossed it. And don't pull it too tight.

I mean, you're gently caressing the hair. That's certainly helping. Oh, it's splitting. Yep. Mm-hmm. It's splitting. Are you getting it, Dylan? I saw it. Is it dinging out? Is it, is it growing up? Well, look, you could see the hair has turned into three hairs. You see that? No, it's too close to me. Yeah. Cut it. No, I can't. I'm seeing things. Go, go, go down further. I want to see crotch in the background.

Get Rhett's crotch underneath it. More of a more of a, yeah. Get more crotch. My hair's so slick. Try the other knife. It should be easier. Cuisinart? No. Okay. Splitting hairs, breathing hard. I think it might be that. That worked. A little more tense. Oh yeah. It, it worked. Mm-hmm. That one did it. Mm-hmm. We did it. How about that? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Keep the. Oh. Yes.

Yeah. Oh, do you. I saw that. You see that? Do you see that? I saw it curl out. Do you see that? Why is it so hot over here? We're breathing so hard. Okay. It's so hot, isn't it? This is the hottest thing we've ever done. It, it it did. It started to do it for a second. If you look right there, look at the end, you can see that, that it curls up a little bit. I think we might have to give this one to the American knife. I mean. Are we gonna do that? It has nothing to do with user error. Oh, right there. Right there. I don't know.

There's something about, there's something about hair splitting. Something about Dylan coming in here really close. Okay, well, we're gonna say that the American knife takes this round. We're gonna find the real winner. Did you know that the Mythical Society has relaunched with a fresh new vibe? Yeah. And two simplified plans. You can unlock access to collectibles and exclusive merch. when you join the All Access Plan. Do it. Along with tons of content and more access to your boys. Check it out at MythicalSociety.com.

I'm gonna put a carrot in a vice so we can cut it with the knives. I'm gonna stand back so I don't get hit with, your knife. I don't know why I did that to the carrot. I was cleaning the carrot off. Hold. Hold on. Okay. Okay. Sorry. Sorry. Only one way to handle that. If you stroke the carrot. There's, there's hair on the carrot. No, it you, hold on. You did it. If you stroke the carrot. Now it hurts, now. I'm, I'm not gonna do, I'm gonna do like third grade. Third grade level. Okay. I think I should keep the cheeks loose.

Okay. Mr. Futrell, remember Mr. Futrell? Yep. Good man. Ow, okay. All right. I'm, I do admit I shouldn't have done that. And I didn't do it on purpose. Yeah. Well, I I, I, I found that I was happening to do it. Yeah. And now if you do it again, you're gonna get spanked again. All right. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take this. well, I, it would help if I hit the freaking carrot. Come on, man. Come on, man.

Ha, ha ha. Okay. Don't, don't, don't, don't. Oh that. Oh boy. Okay. You look. Woo, edge lord in the house. You look pretty cool. You looked pretty cool on that. Ah. See. Yam time. Don't, don't stroke that yam. That's a thick yam. Don't stroke it. I'm not, I ain't gonna stroke that yam. That's, that's a sharp knife, man.

Look at that. Boy. That is a sharp knife. I wish it was my knife. Look at that. Oh, that is so thin. That's so thin, you can't even see it. That's crazy. Can I get a couple of slices? Uh, take the front off. Whoop you broke it at the bottom. Broke it at the base. Yeah. Big follow through. Big follow through. Yeah. Like follow through. Yeah. Keep, yeah. 'cause I've been doing this. You've been kind of tapping it. Yeah, tapping. I'm not gonna tap it.

I'll spank you if you tap. Well, that didn't work. Cut those fingers off, brother. What, did I, is there one missing now? Look how much shorter that one is now. I cut that one off right there. That's a thumb. Oh, now we're fruit ninja. Whoa. Huh, look at that. Oh yeah. Oh. Oh, what. You spilled. What did you see that? You spilled. Magna Blade, what is it called?

Did something finally. Okay. You. Look at that. Hold on. I cut, I cut a corner. It, it's, it, it's it. The, it's bleeding out slowly. Finale with the Cuisinart. Nice. You see how that. Cuisinart. It ends up going back the other way. Alright. No. Okay. Alright. I think we're done. Let's decide. Who gets to be edge lord Brian, we have two chances.

Well, I don't know. Uh. I don't know why there's two. I just need one. There we go. As, as non-members of the knife community, I feel like we, uh, traipsed. into unfamiliar territory today. Yep. But we did spank Link at least once. Where is my winning knife? Bro, right here. It's not even around. I think all things considered though, this knife is better.

Yeah. Yep, we're going with the Aogami Super Steel Gyuto. Knife. That's what it is. You are edge lord Brian. And Cuisinart, you're not that bad. I mean, $20. Maybe, maybe it's good enough. Thanks for commenting and sharing this video. You know what time it is. Hi, my name is Felicity. I have been watching Good Mythical Morning since I was little with.

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