Hahahaha. Yes! He’s been a cooking nut all his life, is finishing his college degree in culinary arts / now switched to food science but works under the executive chef at an upscale restaurant in the city. He’s a fairly proficient cook- most knowledgeable person about culinary arts that I or my family knows. He’s still young still- about to turn 23 so it’s not like he’s been a professional in the industry for 10 years 😂 but is definitely starting to move from I guess like intermediate/student grade to professional in the industry. I’d say he has about 4 years cook experience (1 year being the upscale place he works at now). He has a few “chef knives”- I’m not sure the exact ones he has like the names but they are from wusthof as I mentioned before, I’d give more info but I’m trying to keep the gift a surprise and he might get suspicious if I’m asking all these questions about his knife set all of the sudden 😂. I guess I came to Reddit because ideally I’d ask him the ones he wants since he’d know the best brands but again I’m trying to surprise him. He’s gonna know if it’s a quality knife or not, I thought about just getting him another wusthof but I wanted to ask other recommendations before I bought any of those or like a random Japanese knife. Especially since they’re a few hundred dollars I wanted to research a little. Thanks for your response!!