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Good stainless is excellent, and expensive stainless steel can be as good/sharp as expensive carbon steel.
Cheap Chinese cleaver steel is cheap and soft, but easy to sharpen, plenty of people around the world sharpening them on a brick.
The harder the steel is, the more likely it is to chip rather than dent.
Acliff
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What’s the score with stainless? I’ve been using a cleaver for years but I think the quality of the steel is pretty poor (it was £10) it just doesn’t hold its sharpness and gets bumps on the blade quite easily.