Kitchen knife – it is a too common item in your kitchen. Even if you are particular about ingredients and dishes for preparing meal, you might be careless about what knife you are using. Probably you are just picking one from your kitchen drawer which your wife or other family members have been using without paying any attention. As a matter of fact, quality of kitchen knife greatly influences taste of foods so that you also want to be very particular about the tool you cut ingredients if you want to be very professional.
You might make excuses by saying “It is costly to prepare different types of kitchen knives to each ingredient.” “My kitchen drawer does not have enough space to keep many different knifes.” Well, if that is the case, why don’t you try so called Santoku knife which was invented in Japan after the World War II. With this one general-purpose kitchen knife, you can cut all different ingredients – meat, vegetable, and fish nicely and don’t need to have spacious kitchen drawer to keep. But wait a moment, you might just find out that the knife you are using is a Santoku already since Santoku has been quite popular whether you knew it or not. So, you think you are all set?
There are many kinds of Santoku knives. Some are priced for some hundred Yen, and some are at over 30,000 Yen so you might wonder how to find right one for you. To solve such problem, here is the solution – “Seki Magoroku Damascus Santoku Knife” made in Seki city, Gifu prefecture, Japan which has been so poplar among knife lovers world-wide these days. This knife was made by the 27th Kanemoto – Magoroku Kaneko and ranked as the highest quality Santoku knife on Seki Magoroku knife series. Despite the affordable price, it will offer sharpness that can meet professional needs.
The Damascus pattern makes the knife look just like a Japanese sword. Its handle made of a combination of reinforced wood and stainless steel is designed as an inverted triangle so that it fits perfectly in the hand. You will be surprised how less its sharpness gets dull after a long period of usage. The blade length is 165mm which is a common length for family kitchen knife, so that it can also be used by any other your family members. There is no doubt that you will find yourself wanting to keep using this knife by maintaining with its special sharpening kit delivered with the knife. If you have a Santoku already, why don’t you start with comparing with it!!
For more details about Santoku – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santoku
Seki Magoroku Damascus Santoku Knife/Price JPY12,960 (tax inclusive)