Designed and engineered by Robert Welch Designs in the English Cotswolds, this Signature santoku knife (Japanese chef’s knife) offers the home chef a unique value with a new hybrid of European and Asian cutting-edge technologies. Its special blade slices, dices and minces with clean repetitive action, allowing the food to fall away from the blade. Rated in the top 1% of all brand knives by CATRA (Cutlery and Allied Trades Research Association) for their initial sharpness and edge retention, Signature knives have won major international design awards including the “Highest Possible Grade Achieved” by the Craft Guild of Chefs. Fully forged and robotically engineered, Signature knives feature German stainless steel blades—each uniquely curved to optimize the cutting action for each knife’s function. Engineered using World Edge Geometry™, blades are honed, hardened and tempered to razor sharpness with a precision 15-degree edge angle that cuts and slices effortlessly; full-tang blades extend the entire length from tip to heel as if it’s custom-fit to the hand. [ video review ]

· price: $45 – 70 usd

designer: Robert Welch
producer: robert welch designs
introduced: 2014 international housewares show
period: 2014