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The Best Meat Cleavers

Traditional meat cleavers are built like medieval weapons. Could we find one fit for modern life?

By Updated Feb. 8, 2023

What You Need To Know

Historically, the meat cleaver was a brutish tool. Designed to hew through bone and sinew with a single well-placed cut, the traditional meat cleaver derived its chopping power more from blunt force than from razor-sharp precision and required some strength and experience to be wielded successfully. These days, even professional butchers don’t use cleavers; for hacking through ribs ...