Güde Alpha Barrel Oak Santoku Knife 18 cm with Hollows - CVM Knife Steel - Handle Scales Wine Barrel Oak Wood

Indeed, Güde can also do Japanese, at least such blade shapes. The world-famous Santoku is the equivalent to the European chef's knife. A universal knife, which is used in Japanese kitchens for almost all cutting work. In contrast to the chef's knife, it has a wider, straighter blade, which is only slightly rounded at the tip. This is due to the cutting technique preferred in Asia, chopping.

The Alpha Barrel Oak Santoku knife with hollows has an 18 cm long, wide blade with a slight curvature at the tip made of rust-free and hand-sharpened chrome-vanadium-molybdenum knife steel. Additional, laterally ground hollows prevent the cut material from sticking to the wide blade, which also often serves as a shovel, due to the resulting air cushion.

Güde knives are hand-forged from a piece of chrome-vanadium-molybdenum steel, from the blade tip to the double bolster. The double bolster, a special feature of Güde knives, provides a counterweight to the blade. The knife is perfectly balanced. The special mixture of steel and the elaborate manufacturing process with over 30 manual work steps give the rust-free blades with a hardness of approx. 58 HRC a special robustness and durability.

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