Güde Alpha Barrel Oak Preparation Knife 16 cm - CVM Knife Steel - Handle Scales Made from Wine Barrel Oak Wood

The preparation knife is similar in shape to a paring & garnishing knife and is often the beloved knife, especially among female chefs. If the chef's knife seems too wide and heavy for you, the preparation knife is the perfect alternative.

The Alpha Barrel Oak preparation knife has a 16 cm long, narrow blade made of stainless, hand-sharpened chrome-vanadium-molybdenum knife steel. Despite the narrow blade, the knife is more rigid than, for example, a filleting knife.

Güde knives are hand-forged from a single piece of chrome-vanadium-molybdenum steel, from the tip of the blade to the double bolster. The double bolster, a special feature of Güde knives, acts as a counterweight to the blade. The knife is perfectly balanced. The special blend 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.