How do you store your knives?

[Anonymous]

We use a knife block, but my in-laws have a magnetic strip. There are no down sides to the strip that I have observed from extensive cooking/doing dishes in their kitchen. I am fastidious about drying knives before they go into either the knife block or onto the magnetic strip.

I suppose one question is whether you have a good space for it. My in-laws do -- on the wall to one side of the sink, over the drying rack. We have no convenient space in our rowhouse kitchen.

[Anonymous]

My knife set came with a wooden block, so that’s all I’ve used for the past 25 years.

[Anonymous]

My best knives are in a drawer with knife covers.

[Anonymous]

Expensive quality knives are in a knife block on the counter. Everyday steak and other knives go in the silverware drawer. Works for me.

[Anonymous]

Brown knife block. Hate it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Brown knife block. Hate it.

Me too.

I do have a knife roll for when I travel and expect to need multiple implements. Use individual blade cases when I'm just carrying the chef's and paring knives. (my family expects, and I enjoy, cooking/preparing for them, and they admittedly either don't cook or have crappy knives).

To those of you with a out/exposed magnetic strip: do your infrequently used knives get dirty (dust/grease residue)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have ours in a drawer, in a wooden knife organizer (e.g. https://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/williams-sonoma-in-drawer-15-slot-knife-organizer). It works well but takes up a lot of room and I've been considering moving to a knife block on the counter to get that drawer back - although yeah, then we'd lose the counter space and I'm not sure which I'd really rather give up.

I use the smaller version of the same: https://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/williams-sonoma-in-drawer-7-slot-knife-organizer/?pkey=cknives-blocks-storage, which fits next to my silverware tray in a single drawer. I put my five most often used knives in this and keep steak knives separately.

[Anonymous]

Knife block, but we have less wall space than counter space in our kitchen. The slots are sideways for the big knives; for the paring knife size slots below, we put the knives in blade-up rather than blade-down to help protect the edge, for whatever that's worth.

But I think the magnetic strips are absolutely fine -- what's more important is how you take care of your knives when they're not being stored. We only hand-wash knives and dry them immediately. My DH is also a nerd who really goes whole-hog on sharpening using professional stones. I have to leave the room when he does it because the sound drives me crazy, but it keeps the knives in great shape.

[Anonymous]

In a bin in a drawer. The good ones have knife sleeves on them.

[Anonymous]

knife block it doesn't even take up that much space in the corner of the counter.

[Anonymous]

Drawer with a cork knife holder

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Magnetic strip on the side of the fridge. We are really pressed for counter and drawer space, but it's also supposed to be good for keeping the edge?

We're strapped for space too, but we have kids and dogs. This makes me very nervous. We keep ours in a knife organizer in the tallest drawer closest to the stove.