If you cook, you use knives. There's no way around it. No matter your dietary preferences and restrictions, cuisine of choice, or even skill level, you need a reliable knife if you're cooking anytime.

Blacksmiths and metallurgists in the West have been puzzled for centuries as to how the unique patterns on the famous Damascus steel blades were formed. Different mechanisms for the formation of the ...

Owen forges a modern Damascus knife using a pattern-welding technique practised in the Iron Age. This method, which involves combining different types of steel, was invented to give strength to ...