Shun Premier 180mm Santoku

The Shun Premier Tim Mälzer knives from KAI are a premium series of knives for both enthusiasts and professionals. The hallmarks are high quality and finish, good cutting properties and a particularly comfortable handle.

The key is of course the functional ones, but it has nevertheless resulted in a visually impressive knife with many details such as the beaten tsuchime surface on the upper half of the blade, the clear transitions between the 65 layers of steel the knife is forged from. The stock, which is made of American walnut wood, is also pampered.

The knife here is an 18 cm santoku. The Japanese word "san" in this context means three , and the word santoku can therefore be translated into three tasks , which respectively is meat, vegetables and fish, which emphasizes that it is a universal knife. It is a knife that can take the place of the classic chef's knife, where the difference lies in the balance. The decisive factor for whether you should choose the santoku, the chef's knife or both is your cutting style, where the santoku is particularly good if you are the type who lifts the knife freely from the surface in every movement.

It is particularly suitable for slicing vegetables, but can of course also be used for meat when, for example, must be cut into smaller pieces of meat for wok or stewed dishes.

Premier is a series of knives with a relatively thin blade that has good cutting properties and is relatively light.

• KAI (Seki, Japan)
• 18 cm Santoku
• Stainless steel
• 65 layers of steel
• VG-MAX core
• 61 HRC

The knife must never be washed in a dishwasher, must not cut into hard objects such as bones, cartilage, bones and frozen objects as well as hard cheeses. Remember that it is a property of thin, hard metal that it can break.