Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Designing custom chef’s knives is not how things began for Middleton. The real story started while Quintin was attending college to ...

the Japanese gyuto knife, for example, which other pro chefs say is the one fancy knife to splurge on. Read the original article on Chowhound.

So it's a great tool. But I'm not a chef of, you know, really fancy equipment. I — we’re pretty basic with what we work with. We just want a good pan, a good knife, cake tester, good cutting ...