Juvale Meat Cleaver - 8-Inch Stainless Steel Blade, Wood Handle - Heavy-Duty Butcher Knife & Bone Cleaver for Beef Brisket, Meat Cutting & Chopping - Chopping Knife

Wow, this is a serious cleaver! Heavy, solid... a beast. Definitely for chopping larger bones/roasts, such as beef, venison, pork. Need strong hands to wield this, smaller wrists will probably tire quickly even though the balance provides comfort while using. Also, you'll need to have a chopping block or large cutting board, as this will penetrate thinner boards. Fit and finish is good, looks great...cleaning is simple as the wood handle appears to be sealed with some type of varnish (guessing food-friendly shellac) allowing you to submerge in soapy water or wipe down with a soapy cloth then rinse. Great value for the money.

This Juvale meat cleaver is a beast in the kitchen! The build quality is solid, and the blade is sharp and thick, making it perfect for chopping through meat, poultry, and even small bones with ease. It feels durable and well-made, especially for the price — definitely great value for money. It is a bit on the heavier side, but that actually helps with the chopping power. Just takes a little getting used to if you don’t typically use heavy knives. The wooden handle offers a firm grip, and overall, it feels like a professional tool at a budget-friendly price. If you’re looking for a strong, effective cleaver that gets the job done, this one won’t disappoint!

This is a great cleaver, especially at this price point. If you left a bad review for handle related problems, that is understandable, but the wood handle is a natural product, and they sometimes have flaws. If you left a bad review because the blade isnt as sharp as a normal kitchen knife, because it is heavy, because it is unbalanced, or because the blade steel isnt super hard, you dont know how to use a cleaver, or what it is used for. A cleaver is a hacking/chopping tool, not a slicing tool like a normal kitchen knife. Dont think of a cleaver like a knife, it is not a knife, think of it as a specialized kitchen axe. An axe/cleaver is meant to be swung and impact, this means it needs to have weight and forward balance, it needs to have a steep durable edge angle (not a shallow slicing angle), and it needs to be made of relative soft steel compared to a pure slicing tool, so that when pushed to the edge it will bend and deform, rather than shatter and send sharp pieces flying everywhere. This cleaver is a perfect tool for what it was designed to do. If are looking for a sharp, light, slicing knife that that is in the general shape of a cleaver, but not used for hacking through heavy bones. search for a Chinese chef knife or a vegetable cleaver, as that is what those types of knives are commonly called.

For the price, this cleaver can not be beat. It is a bone splitting machine. It is on the heavy side, easy of use might me tough for some. You will need to have some arm strength to use this for an extended period of time. It came plenty sharp and needed no sharpening out of the package. For the price and weight i think it is very well balanced. Functionality is works perfect. I didn't give it 5 stars because on the wood handle. It is a little rough around the edges. But that being said I would totally buy this knife again.

Sharp and heavy. Cuts like a champ. A medieval weapon if ever there was one

Before getting into the review, make sure you THOROUGHLY wash the machine grease out of the hole in the blade before using it on any food. The hole has machine grease caked in it and that stuff is hazardous to your body. DON’T USE THE SPONGE YOU USE FOR YOUR REGULAR DISHES ON CHEMICALS LIKE THIS. This grease is normal for any knife so don’t take this advice as a knock on this knife. That being said, this knife is an AMAZING value. I bought it in late summer (Sept 12) 2022 for about $18. They were sold out and offered a refund but I decided to wait until they restocked. I’m really glad I did! When the knife arrived on in mid-autumn (November), I wasn’t sure what to expect. Right out of the box this thing is sharp. It’s not a razor blade but it cuts tomatoes without squishing them so it’s good enough for its intended use. It arrived covered in lubricant to protect it from corrosion while in storage and shipping which worked well. Not a blemish on this thing. It looks just like the pictures. The craftsmanship is great. It’s sturdy and has a nice large handle. I wear XL gloves and the handle fit nicely into my grip. If you have smaller hands the grip may be a little bulky but my wife used it without issue (to hack open a young coconut). The handle is made out of wood with 3 pins through it that resemble screws. They’re not easy to remove and I don’t want to mess with it now but eventually it might be a fun project to make a custom handle for this knife. One small note on the handle. It looks like the blade had blue protective plastic wrap Before the handle was attached and some of the blue wrapper is still visible under the edge of the handle. That perfectly fine to me but some might want to know. All in all, excellent knife for the price. 10/10

So, I'm going to start with a couple tiny nits to pick. 1. The handle is unfinished. Technically safe for the dishwasher, but that would bleach out and damage the handle. I see no reason to ever put it in the dishwasher so really no big deal. 2. Mystery metal. Besides "stainless" you have no idea what it's made of. This kind of matters if you manage to use it enough that you have to sharpen it. For the regular home cook this may, in fact, never even come up. 3. Screw heads in the handle. The philips heads in the handle could possibly collect food, leading to cross contamination. 4. The handle is quite large, if you have small hands it might make it hard to use. All these "complaints" aside this cleaver sails through chicken, turkey, lamb, and pork bones (I have not tried tried cracking large beef bones). The wood handle affords a good grip, even if your hands are a little slick from fat. The out of the box edge it terrific (miles better than the smaller, duller, more slippery, and MUCH more expensive Henckels cleaver I used previously). I am generally loathe to award five stars (nothing is perfect), but the price to performance ratio of the Juvale cleaver is off the charts. For me, this cleaver is pretty much ideal.

Razor sharp! Nice and heavy, very comfortable to use. I use this for anything I don’t wish to mess up my other knives on.

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After reading the description I bought this. This was not even able to cut a frozen brisket bone. It is a waste of money.