Güde Alpha Barrel Oak Santoku Knife 18 cm with Granton Edge - CVM Knife Steel - Handle Scales Made from Wine Barrel Oak Wood

In fact, Güde can also do Japanese, at least when it comes to blade shapes. The world-famous Santoku is the equivalent of the European chef's knife. A universal knife used in Japanese kitchens for almost all cutting tasks. Unlike the chef's knife, it has a wider, straighter blade that is only slightly rounded at the tip. This is due to the chopping technique preferred in the Asian region.

The Alpha Barrel Oak Santoku knife with grantons has an 18 cm long, wide blade with a slight curve at the tip, made of stainless, hand-sharpened chrome-vanadium-molybdenum knife steel. Additional grantons ground into the sides prevent food from sticking to the wide blade by creating an air cushion, which also often serves as a scoop.

Güde knives are hand-forged from a single piece of chrome-vanadium-molybdenum steel, from the blade tip to the double bolster. The double bolster, a special feature of Güde knives, acts as a counterbalance to the blade. The knife is perfectly balanced. The special mix of steel and the elaborate manufacturing process with over 30 manual steps give the stainless blades with a hardness of about 58 HRC a special robustness and longevity.

The finely polished handle scales made from oak wood of wine barrels over 80 years old, called staves, are embedded in the steel and triple-riveted. Due to the long aging process, the coarsely structured wood is extremely hard and almost indestructible. The Alpha Barrel Oak series was created in collaboration with star chef Harald Rüssel and his wife Ruth. Harald Rüssel's signature can be found as a laser engraving on each blade.