01The knife that works by falling · 31 pieces

Huusk Meat Cleavers

Thirty-one cleavers from a three-and-a-half inch mini to an eight-point-three inch bone chopper, most with a sheath.

31pieces on this page
$16.99–$119.99across the page
5blade lengths
5handle colours

All 58 on the butcher knives & cleavers shelf

A cleaver does its work with gravity rather than with your arm. You lift it and let it drop, and the mass behind the edge goes through a chicken back or a rib in one motion instead of the three or four a chef knife would need. That is why the useful question is not how sharp it is but how heavy, and why every buyer review on this page mentions weight before it mentions the edge.

Sizes here run from three and a half inches, which is a small chopper for garlic and shallots, to eight point three, which will go through a pork rib. Twenty-seven of the thirty-one sit on the butcher shelf. The rest turn up in kits. Most ship with a sheath, and several with a leather one. A cleaver has more mass behind its edge than anything else in this catalogue, and the first thing it damages in a drawer is another knife.

Huusk Meat Cleavers by blade length

5 blade lengths, each one a link to the card that carries it.

Huusk Meat Cleavers by colour

5 handle colours, named from our own product data rather than read off a photograph.

Huusk Meat Cleaver Knife, Brown

Meat cleavers

Huusk Meat Cleaver Knife, Brown

  • Sheath included
  • Handle: Brown

4.7 · 2,312 ratings

$26.99
Huusk Meat Cleaver Knife, Silver

Meat cleavers

Huusk Meat Cleaver Knife, Silver

  • Sheath included
  • Handle: Silver

4.7 · 1,006 ratings

$34.99
Huusk Meat Cleaver Knife, Black

Meat cleavers

Huusk Meat Cleaver Knife, Black

  • Sheath included
  • Handle: Black

4.6 · 963 ratings

$31.49
Huusk Meat Cleaver Knife

Meat cleavers

Huusk Meat Cleaver Knife

  • Sheath included

4.6 · 963 ratings

$26.99
Huusk Butcher Knife, Black

Meat cleavers

Huusk Butcher Knife, Black

  • Carbon steel
  • Roll bag
  • Handle: Black

4.7 · 886 ratings

$119.99
Huusk Cleaver Knife, 7"

Meat cleavers

Huusk Cleaver Knife, 7"

  • 7" blade

4.5 · 806 ratings

$16.99
Huusk Knife Japan, Black

Meat cleavers

Huusk Knife Japan, Black

  • Sheath included
  • Handle: Black

4.7 · 560 ratings

$28.34
Huusk Serbian Chef Knife Hand Forged

Serbian chef knives

Huusk Serbian Chef Knife Hand Forged

  • Sold as one knife

4.6 · 161 ratings

$39.99
23 more in Huusk Meat Cleavers
Huusk Butcher Knife Set, 2 pieces, Black

Meat cleavers

Huusk Butcher Knife Set, 2 pieces, Black

  • 2 pieces · $11.24 each
  • Sheath included
  • Handle: Black

4.4 · 91 ratings

$22.49
Huusk Meat Cleaver Knife, 7", Silver

Meat cleavers

Huusk Meat Cleaver Knife, 7", Silver

  • 7" blade
  • Handle: Silver

4.5 · 74 ratings

$25.32
Huusk Butcher Knife Set, White

Serbian chef knives

Huusk Butcher Knife Set, White

  • Handle: White

4.6 · 45 ratings

$39.99
Huusk Serbian Chef Knife, 6", White

Serbian chef knives

Huusk Serbian Chef Knife, 6", White

  • 6" blade
  • Handle: White

4.6 · 45 ratings

$29.99
Huusk Serbian Chef Knife, 6"

Serbian chef knives

Huusk Serbian Chef Knife, 6"

  • 6" blade

4.6 · 45 ratings

$29.99
Huusk Cleaver Knife Set, 2 pieces

Serbian chef knives

Huusk Cleaver Knife Set, 2 pieces

  • 2 pieces · $20.00 each

4.6 · 45 ratings

$39.99
Huusk Meat Cleaver Chopping Knife

Meat cleavers

Huusk Meat Cleaver Chopping Knife

  • Sold as one knife

4.7 · 37 ratings

$49.99
Huusk Japan Knife Set Viking Knifes

Meat cleavers

Huusk Japan Knife Set Viking Knifes

  • Full tang
  • Sheath included

4.9 · 13 ratings

$54.99
Huusk Upgraded Serbian Chef Knife Bundle, Silver

Serbian chef knives

Huusk Upgraded Serbian Chef Knife Bundle, Silver

  • Leather sheath included
  • Handle: Silver

4.7 · 4 ratings

$53.94
Huusk Sharp Small Meat Cleaver Bundle, Stainless

Meat cleavers

Huusk Sharp Small Meat Cleaver Bundle, Stainless

  • Leather sheath included
  • Handle: Stainless

5 · 2 ratings

$44.09
Huusk Japan Forged Knife Set Cleaver

Meat cleavers

Huusk Japan Forged Knife Set Cleaver

  • Sheath included

3.3 · 2 ratings

$40.70
Huusk Upgraded Serbian Chef Knife-japanese Meat, 3.5"

Serbian chef knives

Huusk Upgraded Serbian Chef Knife-japanese Meat, 3.5"

  • 3.5" blade
$40.99
Huusk Cleaver Knife Bundle

Meat cleavers

Huusk Cleaver Knife Bundle

  • Sold as one knife
$47.99
Huusk Meat Cleaver Breaking Knife, 8.3"

Meat cleavers

Huusk Meat Cleaver Breaking Knife, 8.3"

  • 8.3" blade
$59.98
Huusk Folding Fruit Knife

Folding pocket knives

Huusk Folding Fruit Knife

  • Full tang
$46.18
Huusk Steak Knife Set, 7", 8 pieces

Steak knife sets

Huusk Steak Knife Set, 7", 8 pieces

  • 7" blade
  • 8 pieces · $8.25 each
  • Stainless steel
$65.99
Huusk Knife Set Hand Forged Meat, Black

Meat cleavers

Huusk Knife Set Hand Forged Meat, Black

  • High carbon steel
  • Sheath included
  • Handle: Black
$54.47
Huusk Japan Knife, Silver

Hand forged Japan knives

Huusk Japan Knife, Silver

  • Full tang
  • Sheath included
  • Handle: Silver
$59.99
Huusk Japan Knive Set

Meat cleavers

Huusk Japan Knive Set

  • Full tang
  • Sheath included
$50.13
Huusk Japanese Kitchen Knife Set, 8", 2 pieces

Meat cleavers

Huusk Japanese Kitchen Knife Set, 8", 2 pieces

  • 8" blade
  • 2 pieces · $22.50 each
$44.99
Huusk Japan Knife, 2 pieces

Hand forged Japan knives

Huusk Japan Knife, 2 pieces

  • 2 pieces · $29.24 each
  • Sheath included
$58.48
Huusk Viking Knife Hand Forged Boning

Meat cleavers

Huusk Viking Knife Hand Forged Boning

  • Full tang
  • Sheath included
$50.24
Huusk Japanese Chef Knife Bundle

Meat cleavers

Huusk Japanese Chef Knife Bundle

  • Sold as one knife
$39.31

02Next to it on the shelf

The rest of Huusk that touches this job

serbian chef knives, butcher knives, hand forged knives: the neighbouring answers, each with its own sizes and prices.

Huusk Serbian Chef KnivesSixteen forged Serbian blades, most of them sheathed, in white, black and silver handles.16 piecesHuusk Butcher KnivesForty-seven butcher blades from seven to eleven and a half inches, singly and in kits of up to ten pieces.47 piecesHuusk Hand Forged KnivesFifty-six forged blades from five to twelve inches, most of them sheathed, in ATS-34, carbon and high carbon steel.56 pieces

03Asked before ordering

Huusk Meat Cleavers: questions

What people ask us about meat cleavers before they pick one.

Can you cut through bone with a Huusk meat cleaver?

Yes, and that is what it is for. Lift and let it fall rather than pressing. The weight does the work. Chicken, rib and small pork bones are its range. Beef leg bone is a saw job, not a knife job, whatever the blade.

What size Huusk meat cleaver do you need?

Six to eight inches for anything with a bone in it. The three-and-a-half inch blades on this page are mini choppers for garlic, ginger and shallots and will not do a chicken back. If you want one cleaver, take a six.

Can you use a Huusk cleaver as an everyday kitchen knife?

People do, and reviewers say they end up using it on vegetables more than on meat. What it will not do is fine slicing: the grind behind the edge is built to push through rather than to part, so a tomato needs a thinner blade.

One button, the whole Huusk range

Every blade length, steel and piece count in the Huusk selection sits behind this button, with the current price beside it. Pick the job, check the blade against the board you own, and it ships from our retail partner.