Tojiro Supreme 20cm Pro Chef's Knife FD-913

Tojiro Supreme 20cm Pro Chef's Knife FD-913

A longer blade for a diverse range of food preparation.

The Tojiro Supreme collection represents the ultimate in knife technology, blending comfortable and hygienic stainless steel handles with superbly sharp blades made from DP multi-layered Damascus steel.

Japan has a long tradition of knife manufacturing. Over one thousand years ago, Japanese swordsmiths developed the high art of sword making to provide strong, sharp blades for the Samurai, the feared warrior caste.

Tojiro has adopted many of these traditional techniques, producing knives which incorporate the same multi-layered blades, so painstakingly produced by these masters in the past, which both look and perform as well in the kitchen as their predecessors did in the field.

The technique of laminating steel was first seen in Damascus, Syria, around 400AD. It was later adopted by Japanese swordsmiths who would fold and hammer many layers of steel into their blades.

A perfect blade needs to be hard to hold an edge, but also be strong and flexible for durability. In many respects, these features can be contradictory. The cutting edge of Tojiro Supreme knives is made of extremely hard steel (Rockwell 60°–62°), allowing the knives to be sharpened to an acute angle and to emerge from the factory razor sharp. If the knives were made solely of this hard steel, however, they would be inflexible and brittle, breaking easily if dropped or misused.

The solution is to use the process of lamination to cushion the super hard inner core by adding outer layers of softer stainless steel. This results in a knife that is as flexible and as strong as any single layer knife, but with a cutting edge that is harder, sharper and longer lasting.

The Tojiro Supreme Chef's Knife is made from 37 layers of steel. This results in the beautiful Damascene effect formed by the many layers of steel which is known in Japanese as "Kasumi-Nagashi" or "Floating Mist".

For the Supreme range, Tojiro has allied its remarkable multi-layered Damascus steel blades with comfortable and stylish stainless steel handles. The hollow handles have been sandblasted to improve their safety in use.

For all Tojiro orders over £225: FREE Minosharp 440GB Universal Knife Sharpener worth £29.95. This water sharpener is suitable for all brands of knife.

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