"Doctors claim long kitchen knives serve no purpose except as weapons"
What a bunch of morons! I use a 10" chef's knife for almost all my kitchen cutting chores, from the heaviest cutting job to peeling a carrot. It's razor sharp (I could literally shave with it). It's my food processor.
About the only thing I don't use it for is filetting fish, although I could if necessary.
All my other knives pretty much just sit.
Damn, I only have an 8". :(
Me, too.
Although we also use a Jap-style chef's knife (it has a name, but I do not know it, Wustof is the brand --- basically a square edged chef's knife with side indentions -- doubles as a spatula).