There's MAJOR Issues With This Knife 

this goes back further than 2021. They started off calling them viking knives, to cash in on the viking craze around the show Vikings. Then they switched to calling them japanese knives, same knife. I think that was like 2013

A rule of thumb or red flag if you wanna say it that way... is when someone offers to sell me knife saying it always stay sharp and never dulls i know they are full of shit.

Dont defend those youtube influencers. They actually used the knife and you can clearly see them struggle to cut through bananas, tomatoes ect, i saw the car repair guy struggle to cut through packaging plastic with it. They obviously knew at that moment that the knife is not good yet they chose to continue. The harsh reality is that their honest opinion can be bought. Cant trust them after that. And you know whats worse? They have millions of subscribers, they would survive skipping one sponsor. But they didnt, because they value money more than integrity and they know thier subscribers are fools who will accept an apology video.

I was just gifted one of these along with my two brothers in law from my well meaning father. Everyone thought they were so cool but I knew right away when I saw them that they were junk. Oh well it’s the thought that matters!!!

Huusk again? I bought four of these in 2018 or 2019 for a costume gag I was doing. They are typical $10 fantasy knives widely available from China. The only thing wrong with them is all of the lies they tell to sell them, and the dopey multiple purchase discount. I am surprised so many people fall for it. That said, I think I paid $50 for the four of them. It saved me two or three hours of labor to make what I wanted out of aluminum. I still have them around somewhere. The wife uses one of them for digging in the garden.

I made a knife out of O1 tool steel and....i couldn't even drill through the handle to attach a wooden grip, even using my milling machine with carbide drill bits. It never got dull because i hardened it so well. Consult your local knife maker or blacksmith instead of these large corporations pumping out garbage.

I saw their ad yesterday, and this is how I got here. Thanks for the review o7 Skipping this scam. CHEERS!

Really, why would anyone want to counterfeit that pile of crap?🤷‍♂️🤣🤣

I would never buy that crap. I like to cook and collect pretty decent knives. Too good to be true on the price. Thanks for the video. Calling out crap products is awesome to see

One thing I find odd when I first saw Huusk appear was how similar it was to the Kamikoto scam... And yet out of the few videos I've seen of each knives, it feels as if these two knives, despite being practically the same scam, never gets mentioned as being a similar examples of each other... Granted, Kamikoto came in much earlier...

Huusk knives is a totally unethical company. Back around 1999 or so I made the mistake of ordering one of their blades and they tried to make me pay for their “special” package where I was to “save” a great amount money so they sent me 8 of them and tried to make me pay for them. It took about a year to get them off my back and I had to threaten them with a federal fraud case before they just gave in and gave me the knives. It was a thoroughly disgusting experience. To boot, the blades are shyte.

Upvoting and commenting so the algorithm will pick this up. Cedric and Ada is an outstanding channel, so this huusk scammer should not be getting away with it.

Yay, Pete. He doesn't lie for views. RU-vid isn't how he pays his bills. RU-vid is just how he pays for buying knives lol

Same as Coolina now- ads popping up everywhere. When a brand advertises knives as "Big, badass kitchen knives for men" and does not provide any info about the steel used, then you know what's up......

I got stung by this scam. They had the nerve because they had my information to try to sell me more six months later. They were surprised at my response. I've noticed recently that they're selling under a new name now, and the scam continues

The packaging displays Japanese writing, I did a google image translation, in English it translates to "myth". That would be the only accurate statement huusk has made! 🤔

They are not a knife company, they are a marketing company. Nicely done review, well researched and presented. You earned a subscriber. If they had used decent steel it would make a pretty handy outdoors knife but it ain't a kitchen knife that's for sure.

two things we can learn from the whole huusk thing: - it makes it very obvious which youtubers are sellouts and are to avoid in the future, their greed basically made them shoot their own leg. - never trust "reviews" on the seller's website EVER! and thanks for mentioning the unimportance of the factory grind, so many people still think that the initial sharpness is somehow a sign of quality steel.

The elephant in the room is RU-vid - RU-vid is first to pull a video for the slightest offense; but apparently last to enforce any standards about scams that rip off consumers.

was gifted one for christmas a couple of years ago. at the time it was marketed as a butcher knife, which was more believable to me because the blade shape and finger hole grip could potentially aid in skinning and breaking down some meats. I raise meat rabbits on the property and can butcher them just fine, but i can do that just as well with any of my kitchen knives, or fixed blades for that matter. i could definitely tell it was a cheap scam knife when i got it and havent even used it enough to get dull. it's sitting in a box in the shed. i've seen the same knife advertised 100 different ways since then

First time I saw an ad for these knives, I laughed. Such an obvious scam to anyone who has experience with kitchen knives. One of my biggest fears is getting one for christmas or birthday present.

As Pete pointed out in his latest video, 420J2 has been used as a CLADDING steel for a very long time because of its toughness and rust resistance in San Mai style knives where the actual steel that forms the cutting edge is sandwiched in between 2 layers of it. Its not 1810 which is in fact a pot and pan stainless. 1810 heavy walled with a well attached encapsulated bottom on a pot or pan makes great everyday long use cookware, I have some that's over 30 years old . But its not knife steel. Its not even VG1 let alone Vg10. HUUSK is an IG rapid sale boot scraper knife brand sold to uninformed consumers. They sell the sizzle not the steak, and as we all know its Halloween season, but not even Michael Myers would be caught dead using it😂

This is a company I would never do business with again. I impulse went to their web site and thought I was ordering one knife. When I got to the order confirmation, it said four knifes. I immediately contacted them about the mistake and was told that my order could not be changed because it had already been sent to fulfillment and they would not allow me to return the three knifes. I wish I had seen this video before hand. I would never had felt with them at all.

I Bought 2, and when i got my invoice i saw i was charged for 5 in total. Contacted them, with no response. I was forced in purchasing them. There was boxes "purchase 3 more" that you need to untic to avoid purchasing extras. Luckily it was just before Christmas and gave them away.

My dad fell for this a few years ago, and bought one each for my brother and me as a present. Ergonomics is s**t, the steel is s**t. These are even worse than the Rambo survival knives of the eighties (Be ware of cheap copies). I left a one star review on Trust pilot, which was taken down after a short while because I couldn't produce a receipt. That could be seen as fair in and of it self, but there's no way to justify removing negative reviews from customers who could produce a receipt (of which there must be thousands). Quoting Crocodile Dundee might be in place here: "That's not a knife."

So these knives are basically like the Kamikoto Knives from previous years that also touted being done with Japanese Artisan Craftsmanship and were also using low quality steel. 😅

This video deserves much (positive) attention! I've seen the Huusk ad videos where the "chef" tells that "the sharp cutting preserves vitamins and proteins" (quoting from memory). At that point it was clear that this is a scam. Thank you for confirming this (my) judgement in a professional way.

It never ceases to amaze me that people actually buy stuff that youtubers endorse.

Thank goodness I'm not persuaded by advert

It's a common scam, during the demo, they'll give you the real steel, quality knives, but they'll ship you the crappy one...

Thanks for the video. I will keep my Old Hickory, 1075 carbon steel knife.

This poor guy on Facebook was trying to defend his purchase of this knife, bless his heart. Lol I said look dude you're not going to get Japanese Damascus steel for $20 you're not going to get it for $40, you're probably not even going to get Japanese Damascus for under $100! No he didn't just buy it once, not twice, he bought it three times! I said dude it's bad enough you got screwed the first time, but then you wanted to get screwed a second, and the third time, if you like buying pieces of $hit then buy more pieces of $hit, but they're still pieces of $hit!🙄

I did buy a a few of these, some package deal. I was running late on gift ideas. I'll say that they are pretty awful. I was fairly embarrassed to give them as gifts. I do know I like higher end knives, but these were far under par than my cheapest knives that I work with. So terrible, that I'll probably throw the last couple I have away. They're useless.

I have this knife. I bought it because of the amazing reviews and low price. I found the shape very awkward for kitchen use so I don’t use it. I still think it looks cool and I got it sharp with a stone. I keep it in the truck for times when I need a sturdy knife that I’m not afraid to abuse.

Wait, people thought Huusk were anything other than cheap knives 😂😂😂 I have one, it’s a novelty, honestly I’m surprised that it was such a celebrity brand

My Ma got me one for Christmas a year or two ago. Without even watching, I know some reasons are: Blade is too short, throwing the weight off. Handle is awkward and encourages you to ride up on it, further throwing off weight and leverage. Blade is curved quite sharply, especially towards the end, making it hard to dice efficiently on a cutting board. The weight, leverage, and curve encourage you to cut with the base, putting your whole body behind it, which is much slower than chopping with the tip of a flat-edged knife. Even if intended for meat like a cleaver is, the grip prevents you from getting the same momentum as swinging a cleaver would. The curved blade also makes it hard to slide ingredients off of a board and into another vessel. I love my Ma, but I really prefer just a standard $20 knife for chopping ingredients. It's no better for meat since a sharp knife doesn't need the body behind it, it just slices.

I got scammed into buying 3 of them for presents when advertised on one of my favorite fishing shows. They came in a nice presentation box saying they were made in China, when the ads on RU-vid said they were made in Japan. When I finally researched these knives I found the metal was pot steel. They are awkward to hold and none of my chef friends are going to use these. One of the cooks I know says they are fine to hang on a wall as an oddity and maybe the shape is good for skinning a large game animal if you keep a sharpener handy.

I have an identical knife bought from a knife maker at a gun show in 2020. It's American made and I rarely sharpen it. I never heard of Huusk knifes until now. I sharpen all my kitchen knives with a diamond hone after use

I saw this "knife" for 80% sale, I figured I'd buy it, but it felt like a scam. I looked a lot on the website first, and saw the photos were edited. They literally photoshopped their knife into the chefs hands. That's when I started looking for reviews, of people who knew what they were doing, not just laymen who think it's ok because it was cheap, and all proper reviews said the same thing "scam, from start to finish, made from pot steel, and the knife has nothing to do with anything japanese, they tried to sell it earlier as a viking knife, so it's a scam."

I actually bought this awhile back. Maybe 2020? Anyways while i do enjoy using it i did notice that its sharpness gradually went after only two or three uses. Being a knife collector, most of my knives that i own don’t dull that fast.

When it sounds to good to be true, it usually isn't. Which is why I never even considered buying one of those knives. Good call.

I’ve held one. It billed as a kitchen knife, but it’s anywhere between 4 & 5 mm (5/32-3/16), which is the thicknesses I make hunting / outdoor knives with. It’s clumsy knife, but you know what it has going for it? It’s cheap, and there’s so many more people prepared to buy cheap knives than anything else. It’s so cheap they were able to send free ones to every sell out they could who would talk about it on their social media. You get what you pay for and this knife is like all the other mass produced garbage out there.

Thank you, I have seen the add on youtube and thought I would look into it and came across your channel. I have never found stainless to not hold a great edge ( Leatherman ) and the ads promoting the newest drone or security camera that disrupts both industries is all marketing and no truth, RU-vid should vet these ads and hold the parties accountable so as not to allow scams. Integrity before profits.

Also, ironically, just got an ad for this exact knife under a different brand 😂😂😂

You wave that knife around like a drunken samurai.

I've never seen any traditional Japanese knives that looks even close to that design.

Just watched this, and the outro ad was for a "Matsato" knife... that looks a whole lot like the Huusk in the video. Made from stainless steel! Traditional techniques blacksmiths used to forge samurai swords! 70% discount! Limited time sale! Yeah...

Thank you, I was a bit intrigued by these but ended up going with known makers and steel.

If you buy something because an influencer told you to, then you deserve bad products.

I left a reasonably polite comment, critical (called it a scam) of the Lomi composter (sponsor on a YT channel) and got banned for a bit on YT for breaking their community guidelines! YT seems to censor anyone disrupting their bottom line (cash, baby!), so no, your advice about 'commenting' is a bit naive.

As someone who has worked in commercial kitchens for over 24 years, I agree that the edge's curved shape will make work more taxing as you'll increase your wrist movement. Proper kichen knife's edge should be only very slightly curved, not as much as this Huusk knife. For work my knife set are combinations of Shun and Wusthof for over a decade and they don't disappoint. By the way, this Huusk knifes are making another commercial appearance again but under new name. It's called Matsato knife. You'll see it in the usual youtube ads.

I am not a knife enthusiast, but I like good sharp kitchen knifes that stay sharp reasonably long, arent difficult to sharpen and dont rust. I have bought some expensive knifes, and some cheap ikea ones. The ikea knifes are better…

420J2 or 3Cr13 are bargain stainless steels that are serviceable but require frequent sharpening and if you pay more than $8 for blades made of those steels you're getting ripped off.

I had a few too many beers one evening and bought a few of these knives. The website was sketchy and I ended up buying a bunch instead of a few. I made the purchase then was given options to add more knives and sheathes at a discounted rate. However, when you click the option to just look at it, it automatically bills you and ships it to you since they already have your cc information. So I ended up with 12 of these amazing knives. I called to see about a refund upon return and a woman answered the phone. It certainly wasn’t an office setting as there were chickens clucking in the background. I did not get my refund. In the end, it’s a nice POS knife, never to be used in a kitchen.

I know I will never buy one. I trust Pete and they are using terrible tactics. Not interested.

Pete from Cedric & Ada Gear & Outdoors going the hack on Huusk was one of my favourite RU-vid moments. It might have been taken down, but i remember it fondly.

Great Video and fair review. So many maufacturers are straight up lying about their knives. It's dissapointing and misleading to say the least.

The rolling horizontal lines in the video can be avoided by changing the refresh rate (i.e. switching from 59hz to 60hz or vice versa). If that doesn’t work, turn off WDR (wide dynamic range). Great video 👍

Thanks for this review

I was gifted one. It’s sharp, no issues with the one I have in terms of quality. I just never use it. Its shape is just odd. Not good for cutting anything found in a kitchen 😂. Very rarely I will pull it out to slice some meat but that’s it.

I just received a matsato knife for Christmas and the knife as well as its packaging and the website are identical to huusk, which led me down this rabbit hole, time to have some fun.

I like the shape/design of the knife. That's about it.

Great review. I bought a few a couple of years ago, utter junk! Although mine did have Oakwood handles but they were so rough, you practically got splinters when you used them. 🙏🙏

My doubts about this knife were always about food safety questions, that blade seems built to catch and hold food and bacteria, also, what is that finish and how is it going to stand up to the scrubbing that irregular surface requires, finally that wood handle is obviously not food safe, but is it acceptable for even home use?

It was a big hit as a white elephant Christmas gift back in 2022, everybody wanted it but I'm pretty sure everyone was well aware that a $25 knife is a $25 knife.

Thanks for being honest and telling the truth

I actually have one of these knives from way earlier, like before 2020. used to be a typical placement on tv shopping and a family friend got sucked into buying like 12 for a discount and gave one to anyone who would have it. been one of my preferred knives for a good while but that said its pretty easy to beat old splintery steak knives and dollar store paring knives

My first thought is that it's just an idiot tax so it's all good and fair, but then I realized that this effects the market as a whole. As long as the majority of people buy garbage products, the market will be flooded with them. Life is too short to have to spend hours to research product after product until you finally stumble on something worth while... or you run out time and patience and just buy something you know is crap to just get the job done.

I just buy my kitchen knives at the local restaurant supply store. Reasonably priced commercial knives designed to be used in a restaurant 12 hours a day work just fine for the 3 or 4 times a week I cook.

I got this knife at a bargain bin store (Amazon returns) on 6 dollar day because it looked cool. I definitely overpaid. It's not ergonomic at all. 440 steel has its place, but in 2023, we have hundreds of better knife steels. The finger hole location makes it awkward to use. I put it in the center console of my boat and use it as a bait cutter.

There is ad copy one of the YT guys read for these knives saying the knife has a 38 degree edge. At first I assumed it was a mistake by the host. Then I saw it on another channel. Then I guessed it was a translation error. Now I'm wondering are these knives ground at that absurd an angle?

I own this knife but not as a Huusk. It came as the boning knife in a £30 double pair of kitchen knives I brought from amazon. Considering what I paid and the fact that I mainly bought the pair for the larger chefs knife, its really good!

Rule of Thumb: everything RU-vidrs advertise for is cheap trash, if it isn't it's some sort of scam.

It looks like a fighting knife that they decided to market as a kitchen knife. The reason I say that is because of the finger hole.

I was gifted one of these some time ago. As you say, it doesn’t make much sense as a kitchen implement, but it does look cool, so I tend to use it for carving meat at the table.

Please what is your advice I need to buy a meat knife which one you advice me? Many thanks

Honestly I've never heard of this brand or seen people hawking them but I have seen what looks to be the same knife on a couple of the cheapie sites where they tend to charge 5-10 dollars but wouldn't ever give more than 2 Bucks for such a monstrosity.

Now called Matsato

It looks like the knives I bought from Daiso in Tokyo. Daiso is a 100 Yen store, like a Dollar Store or a Pound Shop.

Good review. Two notes: If you try to gauge the quality of any consumer good, it's best to order multiples. This will reduce the chance that you review an item that slipped quality control, and you'll have a better idea if the quality is like this in general. The other point is that it shouldn't really matter where the company / producer of the knife is from. When they say it's "Japanese inspired" it's not necessary that they are from Japan or based in Japan. I felt like this point distracted from the very solid evidence that these knives are just average.

Well done 😊

These scammers keep changing the name to get rid of their stock. Currently they are calling them Matsato knives.

Is that a martin mystere BGM ?

Wondering how you control for pressure when you scrape the knife on the dulling block? Unless you apply a consistent measurable force that's repeatable on all tested knives the results are meaningless.

I will never be considered a sous chef, but I am a damn good cook. I bought the Huusk Viking Knife on Amazon during a flash sale for $20. Not thinking it will be vary much. It holds an edge better than most of the very good carbon steels I have and not that difficult to sharpen considering it is some kind of unknown alloy steel. I find I use it way more than I expected I would. For what I paid I can't knock the knife, after 4 months use. I do agree it was not as sharp as my real Japanese Nakiri, but does most task well.

95 % of "influencers" would promote absolutely anything for not so big amount of money.

I have this knife and it is not a s good as promoted. Funny thing is at the end of your video an add that popped up for me was for Matsato, with an identical looking knife as the Husk. Coincidence? Lol Enjoyed your video here! Cheers

You should change the lights in your shop. It is giving your video a rolling shutter effect.

the fingerhole is for emergency self defense extra grip for home break ins duh huusk are genius!

Im so glad that i dont watch any ads anywhere

the 420J2 version (actually a steel) is hard to find. most Huusk knives come in 18/10 pot metal. horrible.

Thank you besides Pete you’re the first one I’ve seen talk real about these god awful knives. Pot steel dammit it’s made of pot steel. It’ll disperse heat well probably but it won’t hold an edge

The longer and Flashier an Advertisement is, the more likely its a scam!

Mine laster about 2 years of lite kitchen duty... Then in the past month the edge... took a dump. I guess I made it thur the edge steel during sharpening and now its filled with chips.. from sharpening

This has been super informative for me while looking to get my husband a quality knife. Looking forward to viewing your other videos on knives.

I was gifted one. It's squishes my tomatoes because it's too thick. It rust after the first wash. Meh, I'll use it until it becomes too much trouble

a friend of mine got one for xmas back in 20/21 and it was actually not too bad of a knife.. but they are NOT hand forged, they're not even forged, they're machine produced mid-quality at BEST

Thanks for posting, hope they leave you alone.

Pete's a g in the knife and sharpening space online.

I knew it was rubbish and still bought a nockoff on the cheap anyway. It comes without the fingerholes and I use it for cutting cord on the block without fraying. The curve actually helps there.