Top Chefs-in-training come correct with a classy 19-piece assemblage of German steel suited for every task—from carving the bird to balling the melon.

The German statistics office said German steel production plunged 53% in April from a year earlier on slumping orders from the automotive and machinery industries.

It found that China's less efficient steel mills, and its greater reliance on coal, meant that it emitted three times as much carbon dioxide per ton of steel as German steel producers.