Cutco Cutlery Product Review
I love my Cutco. I think they're a fantastic product and I will never again have cheap knives. They're overpriced though. I don't suggest buying them at full price. Instead, put a set together through eBay. They're still expensive there, but not quite as bad.
Here are some of my favorite Cutco cutlery pieces:
Cutco Spatula Spreader
This is Cutco's most unique piece. It can cut like a knife, but it also bends. So when you make brownies, you can slide it under the brownies and lift your piece up. I've only used the spatula spreader for desserts, but I haven't found a knife elsewhere that serves this function.
Cutco Petite Carver
There's nothing petite about this piece of cutlery. Cutco has a non-petite carver, which is even bigger, but I don't see why you'd need any bigger than the petite carver. I don't make turkeys or roasts very often, but when I do, this knife makes me look like a professional cook. Those big things can be impossible to cut up otherwise, but the petite carver makes it easy. Even if I buy a pre-cooked chicken at the grocery, I use the petite carver to dice up my meat in minutes.
Cutco Turning Fork
This combines with the petite carver and is just as necessary to carve up your turkeys, chickens, and roasts. The fork is oversized and holds the meet in place while you the petite carver cuts. Then you use the fork and put the meat slice on a plate. They have two different kinds of forks, but I don't see why you'd need more than one.
Cutco Slicer
The slicer is as all-purpose as cutlery gets. Most people try to use my slicer for everything, and I have to remind them that there are other knives in the set that are better to use. But when it comes down to it, you can just use the slicer for just about everything.
Cutco Petite Chef Knife
Like the petite carver, there's nothing petite about this piece of cutlery. And there's also no need for anything larger. I love this knife, but only because I learned how to use it properly. It's huge, but it's meant to slice up things quickly. It's like on those cooking shows where they push the food into the knife and it chops up and down. This piece of cutlery is a huge time saver for me.
Cutco Table Knife
This is your typical steak knife cutlery. Functionally, I love the table knife. I've actually cut through steak without sawing. The knife is so sharp I can just push straight down. And it doesn't take much force. My only knock is that they don't look that fancy for the price. At the table, I'd like a nicer looking piece of cutlery.
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- I love my Cutco! I strongly suggest them!
16 Comments
Post a CommentThe product: Cutco cutlery is VERY good and worth every penny. The company: Vector Marketing is possibly questionable with some of the tactics, but don't get the two posts confused.
As far as the quality of Cutco, these are the best knives that I've ever used! I am NOT a Cutco rep, but I did buy the set from my niece over a year ago. I bought more individual pieces last week as I like them so much. I compete in BBQ contests and do catering on the side, as well as almost all of the cooking in the home. These knives get used a LOT!
One comment about Henckles being forged and Cutco being stamped - Henckles more resonably priced sets are STAMPED not forged! And they don't keep an edge like Cutco knives do!!!
You know scott. i dont think your a very smart guy. making 2 very different articles about cutco "ITS A SCAM" then "OH ITS FANTASTIC"
Vector is amazing and i also inherited cutco from my grandmother who got it in the 50s and i still use it everyday. Vector is the best thing that ever happened to me. My kids are going to sell cutco too. The company did over $250 million in sales last year and had to hire on more employees in there factory which is in the good old USA and we by steel from the USA too. Cutco has been around for 60 years as of 09 and were up 29% for the year a great start to another 60 years. Sorry for the run on sentences and i hope you have a great day... don't forget to visit CUTCO .com now :)
A long time ago CUTCO made a decision. It was either make a cheaper knife or make a great knife at a higher price. It is easier to explain price once than to apologize for quality forever.
considering the value and length of time people keep them for they are under priced. As lo they are less expensive then the other "top" brands.
and if you destroy them through abuse they are replaced at 1/2 the current price.
johnathan... you don't know what you are talking about. thank you. you are using averaged numbers which give you an averaged and expected minimum results. Also many offices are larger then you know AND every summer more branch offices are opened for a few months to train new managers. Your just mad because you couldn't sell the knives, our blades are tempered steel to keep them flexible and durable if you payed attention you would have known that, go watch modern marvels and they SHOW you how the are HANDMADE. oh and if they ever break, we replace them as long as your not using them as a door opener and Henckles and Wusoff's gaurentee says if there is no problem out of the factory they don't give a crap.
n satisfied customers. If this was annually, judging by the 250 figure from earlier, CUTCO would be selling 3.75 billion dollars worth each year! If this is 15 million customers ever, then that 3.75 billion would be divided by 60 (the company's been in business since 1949, 60 years), and that gives you 62 million each year, which is a figure substantially lower than even the 200 million quoted earlier. Unfortunately, since it IS a numbers game, they are giving you numbers all over the dart board! There are many other problems I have with CUTCO, but the mere fact that they can't seem to give truthful figures to potential "employees" is extremely unsettling. Go ahead and continue to sell your knives, but I simply could not in good conscience. I actually gave my sample set to my last customers.
0% of your appointments will result in a sale. There are about 500 offices in the US, and in my training, there were 32 people. I'm going to guess not all training sessions are that much, so I'll use 20 as your average number of people. We were told most people have 20 appointments/week. If 60%(the lower figure) of your appointments result in a sale, and you have 20 appointments, you have sold $250 worth of product to 12 people in a week. 250x12=3000. That's a rep selling 3000 worth of product each week. If there are only 20 reps per office, then that makes 3000x20=60000 for each office every week. That times 500 offices makes 60000x500=30,000,000 worth of product CUTCO sells per week. There are 52 weeks in a year, which would be 30,000,000x52=1,560,000,000. If what the company claims are "average sales," then they would be selling over 1.5 billion dollars worth of product. They already told us that they only sell 200 million dollars worth, though! They also claim 15 millio
I just quit my job as a Cutco sales rep. I just didn't feel comfortable with it all-- I don't like selling things unless I know everything there is to know about a product, and be able to make an honest recommendation. Cutco is produced cheaply, but the managers build it up to being such high quality! They're compared to Henckles brand, which is actually forged steel, which everyone agrees is better than stamped, which is the technique Cutco uses. Who cares how polished they look, when the straight edges won't stay sharp long, and none of the knives are well balanced? The double d edge is a glorified serrated edge. Yes, they ARE better than serrated, but no, they don't compare to a straight edge for the jobs a straight edge does, like chopping. My manager said in training over and over "It's a numbers game." I crunched some numbers... we're told to tell the customer that $200,000,000 worth of Cutco is sold annually. We were also told that the average sale is 250, and that 60-7