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Cuisinart 8" Stainless Steel Chef's Knife with Blade Guard

Cuisinart 8" Stainless Steel Chef's Knife with Blade Guard

By Cuisinart · Kitchen Knives · Kitchen & Cooking · More from Cuisinart

  • 8 in blade
  • stainless steel blade
  • bonus blade cover
  • 0.065 lb weight
  • 3.819 in x 0.984 in x 16.535 in

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Problems, parts and running costs

Summary

An inexpensive 8-inch stainless-steel chef’s knife that Cuisinart sells with a matching blade guard, aimed at casual cooks and first-apartment kitchens. The catch is what Cuisinart does not publish: no steel grade, hardness or edge-retention data for this exact part number, so the low price is the whole story.

Strengths

  • Low upfront price: Cuisinart’s own page listed the knife and its guard at $12.95 in October 2026.
  • A mainstream 8-inch length that suits common vegetable prep and general slicing.
  • A blade guard is included, which makes drawer or travel storage simpler than a bare blade.
  • Hand-washable and sharpenable, with no proprietary cartridge or powered part.
  • A written lifetime limited warranty against material and workmanship defects.

Weaknesses

  • Cuisinart publishes no steel grade, hardness or independently measured edge retention for this part number.
  • Owners of related models report rust, discoloration and dull out-of-box edges, though none of that is confirmed for this exact SKU.
  • Balance, fit and finish, and true weight are unverified; the maker’s weight field carries no unit.
  • The knife is cheap, but a sharpener can cost as much as the knife.
  • It will not replace a serrated bread knife, a flexible fillet knife or a cleaver.
  • Above roughly $19–20 delivered, a better-documented rival is the smarter buy.

Verified specifications

ModelCuisinart C77SS-8CFPK, a single 8-inch stainless-steel chef’s knife with a matching blade guard; not a knife set or a block.
Blade length8 in (about 20.3 cm).
Steelthe maker says stainless steel but publishes no alloy, Rockwell hardness, heat treatment, bevel angle or edge thickness for this part number.
Intended useordinary chopping, dicing and mincing; not advertised for bone, frozen food or prying.
Blade guardincluded, with an illustrated warning to fit and remove it away from the edge.
Handlethe maker lists the color as stainless steel; a reseller describes a stamped stainless handle. No published grip or ergonomics test.
Dimensions3.819 × 0.984 × 16.535 in (manufacturer web-catalog figures in its own L/W/H order; whether they include the sheath or packaging is unclear).
Weightnot published with a unit; the maker shows “0.065” with no unit, and third-party listings give about 9.9 oz (0.62 lb) with no independent scale measurement.
Carethe model-linked Cuisinart cutlery guide recommends hand washing and drying immediately.
ManualCuisinart links a three-page use, care and lifetime-warranty PDF from the product page.
Warrantya lifetime limited warranty for the original US household purchaser, covering material and workmanship defects; normal wear, misuse and commercial use are excluded.
Full research notes and sources

Steel, edge and the missing numbers

Cuisinart calls the blade stainless steel and stops there. The product page and the linked cutlery PDF do not name the alloy, the Rockwell hardness, the heat treatment, the bevel angle, the blade height or the thickness behind the edge, and no independent test of C77SS-8CFPK’s cutting performance was found. A stainless label is not a grade and does not prove corrosion resistance, so treat the unmeasured edge as a known unknown rather than a defect. Buying from a seller with an easy return policy matters more here than the spec sheet, because the spec sheet is thin.

Care, sharpening and running costs

The model-linked Cuisinart guide recommends hand washing and immediate drying, and a reseller lists the knife as not dishwasher-safe, so skip the dishwasher and do not store it wet or fit the guard over a damp blade. Cuisinart advises sharpening periodically and honing between sessions; it sets no time between sharpenings and no annual replacement interval. The knife is unpowered, so there is no electricity, subscription, filter or battery cost. The real money is optional sharpening: a Work Sharp Pivot sharpener at $13.95 spread over five years works out to about $2.79 a year, and replacing the knife at Cuisinart’s $12.95 every three years is about $4.32 a year, roughly $7.11 a year together. Those are illustrations, not a measured service life.

No owner cohort exists for C77SS-8CFPK itself, so the reports below come from the closely related part numbers and should be read as signals, not a failure rate. On Lowe’s page for the different C77SS-8CF, an owner reported rust within a week despite handwashing, and Cuisinart replied telling the buyer to dry the knife immediately. A separate r/cookware owner of a Cuisinart color-coated set said the brand offered replacements. Different models, use and boards make any of these impossible to map onto this knife.

Is it worth it?

Checked in October 2026, the advertised price for this exact part number at non-marketplace stores ran from $12.95 to $23.99: Cuisinart’s own page at $12.95, Verdi at $12.99, Table Top King around $14.98–$18.99 and Newegg at $23.99. At $13 or less before shipping it is a sensible entry buy; $14–17 delivered is acceptable but less compelling; above $19–20 the Mercer Millennia M22608 at $19.99 has a documented textured nonslip handle and independent editorial discussion. The in-brand C77SS-8CF2 was $11.99 at Target but arrives with mixed owner reviews, and the Victorinox Fibrox extra-wide 8-inch at $67 is the choice when defined blade specs and a proven handle matter more than price.

Which model this is

This page covers Cuisinart C77SS-8CFPK, an 8-inch stainless-steel chef’s knife with a blade guard, sold as part of what a reseller calls the Graphix Collection even though Cuisinart’s own page shows the plain “8-inch Stainless Steel Chef’s Knife” title. Two other part numbers are easy to mix up: C77SS-8CF, which Cuisinart lists separately as the Graphix chef’s knife, and C77SS-8CF2, Target’s Classic stainless knife. Match the full suffix before you compare listings, and ignore construction claims borrowed from those models, such as a forged bolster or a full tang.

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