/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>20305696
if you look at rakuten jp # of reviews it appears that in addition to sometimes falling for all kinds of marketed memes like ceramic knives, Japanese normies mostly tend to either go for cheap trash or spend a little extra to get a ~$75ish stainless knife, just like the rest of the world does.

carbon steel japanese knives that rust are a "traditional craft" subsidized by their government and sold all around the world; things like this help maintain Japan's good image abroad. Some of the older Japanese styles like the Usuba, Yanagiba, etc. are specialty equipment popular with chefs, but the "Aogami Super 240mm Gyuto" phenomenon is as far as I can tell mostly a popular international fad for line chefs and middle-class white guys who like to "buy it for life" (compulsively spend an extra $200 on every object they ever need to buy).