Regular price $160.00
The best kitchen knife to choose for yourself or anyone who loves to cook. Based on the traditional Japanese Santoku style, this sharp and well-balanced stainless steel chef's knife is perfect daily food tasks like slicing, dicing and mincing. Made with Swedish cutlery steel and an easy care poly handle by master cutler Bryan Baker and his team of knife makers at Svord.
This Japanese style medium size kitchen knife can be used for everything on the menu; vegetables, meat and fish. Each Santoku chef knife is presented in card sleeve with care and sharpening instructions.
31cm x 5.3cm x 2cm (19.7cm knife blade length)
Choose the handle colour: black, blue, pink, orange or yellow.
Santoku knives are a style of general-purpose chef's knives originating in Japan. Santoku means "three virtues" or "three uses" in Japanese, and refers to the variety of food that the knife can handle (meat, fish and vegetables). The shape of the blade means that it can slice, chop and dice with ease. The Santoku style is shorter, lighter and thinner, and its blade made from a more hardened steel (to compensate for thinness) than a standard Western chef's knife. The Santoku knife, if cared for, will hold its edge longer.
This classic Santoku knife features a flat edge and a thin steel blade that curves down an angle approaching 60 degrees at the point. The thin blade and handle are designed to work in harmony, by matching the blade length and weight with the weight of the tang and the handle. Some Japanese Santoku knives are created with a granton edge (a series of dimples along the blade) but Svord's style has a classic smooth blade edge.
Bryan Baker, master cutler, started his knife-making company from necessity in 1983. Made redundant by the untimely demise of an engineering firm, the 18 year old decided to turn a hobby making knives into a practical business making a variety of high quality kitchen and outdoor knives at a reasonable price. Staring small, Svord has grown its range of knives over the years and sells to many countries worldwide. The combination of quality Swedish cutlery steel and Baker's process for heat treating and tempering produces the best cutting blades.
Today, the Svord brand is chosen around the world by food-lovers, chefs, campers and hunters alike.
Care Instructions: Hand wash in warm soapy water and dry straight away. Never put it in the dishwasher. Use a wooden chopping board, and store in a knife block, on a magnetic strip or in its sheath. Have it professionally sharpened about once a year, or whenever it starts to feel dull. In Christchurch we recommend KASS Sharpening Services on St Asaph Street.
We ship nationwide across Aotearoa New Zealand and internationally to selected destinations.
