Cooking professionally, even part-time, has a way of turning you into a deranged tool snob. One minute you’re blissfully hacking at onions with a discount store special, the next you’re spiraling into ...

The recipe for “Damascus steel” was later long lost until 1981, when two Stanford metallurgists cooked up a high-carbon ...

Thank God I found mine. I'm never cooking anything again without using my Made In Damascus-steel knives. This three-steel-knife set includes a santoku, a nakiri, and a gyuto all forged in Seki ...

Recreating Damascus steel remains a holy grail of materials science. The exact process and alloys used are long ago lost to time. At best, modern steelworking methods are able to produce a rough ...

The recipe for “Damascus steel” was later long lost until 1981, when two Stanford metallurgists cooked up a high-carbon concoction that resembled the magical material. Decades later, brands like ...