Now I admit I'm not a cook, or chef and I have no training in the correct way to slice stuff, but a few years back - I thought I'd like a nice sharp knife to slice onions and stuff like that.

So complete schmuck that I am, I saw the Titanium knife set demonstration on the shopping channel and I asked for that for Xmas - convinced my problems would be over.


Call it defective technique or what you will, but imagine my surprise when the cleaver and the big knife all bounced off the onions - I could do it with the serrated bread knife. But hell I had a bread knife already.

So the titanium whatsits went into the drawer in disgrace, and not being a man to let the grass grow under my feet, a mere two or three years later, I took myself down to the cooking implements shop and bought a knife marked OXO Good grip. Now this is a good knife, and will cut most things - however it was £30 or so.

has anyone found a cheaper way to do it.   I wouldn't mind a couple of of other sharp knives now that I've got one that works. Its a nice thing to have.