/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>19228790
You're slightly wrong. the exposure to western knives made them create the santoku which was a hybrid of nakiri and western. That has been the household knife since. Now gyuto is getting more popular as an even further westernized style due to the increase of meat in the Japanese diet since the 50's. Flatter profiled knives will always be more efficient for vegetable heavy diets, even the bunka was more popular than gyutos.