Chopping knife recommendations

[Calcifer1]

What is the best knife for chopping

[slensgra]

That depends. Chopping herbs takes a different knife than chopping chicken bones. What will you be using your knife for?

[mauichef]

What is the best knife for chopping

A sharp one

[Nmiller21k]

Chopping via straight up and down cuts, or chopping via rocking?

[Calcifer1]

Chopping via straight up and down cuts, or chopping via rocking?

Rocking I love to use the rocking motion when cutting veggies

[Calcifer1]

Are there any good books that teach Japanese knife techniques vs the more western style?

[Nmiller21k]

Chopping via straight up and down cuts, or chopping via rocking?

Rocking I love to use the rocking motion when cutting veggies

1)Pro or home cook?

2)What kind of knife do you want? (Gyuto, Santoku, Petty, Paring, Sujihiki, etc.)

3) What size knife do you want?

4)How much do you want to spend?

5) Do you prefer all stainless, stainless clad over reactive carbon, or all reactive carbon construction?

6)Do you prefer Western or Japanese handle?

7)What are your main knife/knives now?

8)Are your knife skills excellent, good, fair?

9)What cutting techniques do you prefer? Are you a rocker, chopper or push/pull cutter?

10)Do you know how to sharpen?

Please also add any additional pertinent information that can help everyone with suggestions.

[Nmiller21k]

Are there any good books that teach Japanese knife techniques vs the more western style?

Videos will be better, books can easily lose hand position translation.

[jknife]

It took me too long to figure out that longer is better for rocking. I'm an old dog I guess.
240 gyuto with some belly (ie a high tip). Other than that it depends on the answers to the questionnaire above.

[Nmiller21k]

Chopping via straight up and down cuts, or chopping via rocking?

Rocking I love to use the rocking motion when cutting veggies

With this you're looking for a rocking knife, not a chopping knife they are two different and distinct actions when cooking.

[Martin]

i use a cck cleaver for it. it's cheap and good

[mauichef]

i use a cck cleaver for it. it's cheap and good

Good recommendation but it looks like the OP is looking for a rocking action which your CCK most decidedly is not.

[Robstreperous]

I really like my Saji R2 240 western for rock chopping.

[Tostadas]

For lots of veggie chopping, I love the CCK small cleaver

[Bob Z]

I like my cck also for veggies for push chopping however is has a gentle slope on its edge and can do just fine for rock chopping also. For herbs I like a more curved blade like the daovua kiri cleaver.