The Imayo Santoku Knife is a Japanese all-purpose kitchen knife.
Like a chef’s knife, the santoku is used for just about every cutting job in the kitchen. It works well with vegetables, proteins, and fruit and excels at three types of cuts; slicing, dicing, and chopping. The tsuchime, or hammered finish, creates air pockets that help food release from the blade.
Imayo is part of Kai’s Seki Magoroku range of knives. Many celebrated swords were born in the Seki area and in the Kamakura era. The master craftsman “Magoroku of Seki” had the original technique of producing beautiful swords which were high quality and had outstanding sharpness. Made in Japan, these beautiful knives feature a hammered finish – tsuchime (tsoo-CHEE-may) in Japanese – which creates air pockets that improves food release when cutting.
Like others in the Kai family, the handle is made from hard-wearing PakkaWood which enables durability and comfort, as well as making it an attractive-looking knife to have in your collection.
Features:
- Blade Material: Molybdenum Vanadium stainless steel with tsuchime finish
- Cutting Edge: Sharpened to 15° double-bevel blade with a 3-stage sharpening process
- Handle Material: Black PakkaWood (premium, resin-impregnated hardwood)
- Long-lasting Sharpness: The use of highly wear-resistant steel allows you to enjoy a refreshingly sharp cutting edge for a longer time
- Blade length: 16.5cm
- Triple rivet & full tang construction for a sturdy & durable knife
- For use with both left or right-hand
- Handcrafted in Japan
- Limited warranty from manufacturing defects
Read through our Shun Blog to find out more information about this top-end brand and the differences between their ranges. See all Chef’s Complements Kai Shun Knives here.
