Kyocera Innovation Black 4-Piece Ceramic Knife Set (ZK-4PC-SET)

This set builds a ceramic lineup for vegetable-heavy cooking, with a blade length for each stage of prep, from breaking down a head of cabbage on the board to cutting thin slices of cooked fish. A longer blade for chopping and a shorter one for slicing spare you from forcing one knife to do both.

Kyocera spent more than 12 years developing this ceramic and says it keeps an edge twice as long as the ceramic it replaced. The knives cannot rust and leave no metallic taste on acidic food. Like all ceramic, they are brittle, so keep a steel knife in the kitchen for bones, frozen food and prying.

Before buying a ceramic set, customers ask us how it will be sharpened. Plan on diamond. The RSD-01 Diamond Wheel Sharpener covers home maintenance for all four knives, and EVERSHARP, Kyocera’s authorized service provider, repairs chips and resharpens worn edges (Kyocera’s sharpening service page explains how to send knives in).

Storing a Four-Knife Set

The Kyocera Universal Knife Block has a slotted insert that takes ceramic blades of any shape, and holds up to eight knives, enough for this set and four more. For a smaller start, the Innovation Black 2-Piece Set pairs a 6-inch chef’s santoku with the utility knife.