Shun's Extraordinary 8" Chef's Knife

Chefs love how Shun's 7.5" Santoku cuts your favorite fruits and veggies with much less sticking.

• Hollows in the blade, sometimes called "granton edges" break the vacuum, which is what makes high-starch foods like apples or potatoes stick to your blade
• A light and maneuverable all-purpose kitchen knife

• This Santoku is also available as one of the knives in Shun'ss extraordinary block set
• Hollow-ground indentations help food release from the blade
• Hand-sharpened 16° double-bevel blade (32° comprehensive)
• Steel: Proprietary VG-MAX cutting core, 34 layers each side (68 total) stainless Damascus cladding
• Handle: D-shaped ebony PakkaWood®
• Blade length: 8 in. (20.3 cm)
• Handcrafted in Japan

A santoku 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. The name means “three virtues.” Depending on who you ask, the name refers either to the three types of foods it works well with—vegetables, proteins, and fruit—or for the three types of cuts at which it excels—slicing, dicing, and chopping. Hollow-ground indentations on the blade help reduce friction so the blade glides through the food more easily. When we first introduced the Shun Classic Hollow-Ground Santoku to the market, it was named “Kitchen Knife of the Year” by Blade magazine. The Shun Classic Hollow-Ground Santoku is part of the Shun Classic line of tasteful and contemporary cutlery.

If you have only one kitchen knife, the Shun Classic 8-in. Chef's Knife is the one to have. This one is extra-special because of the hollow-ground indentations on the side of the blade. They create small air pockets that reduce friction when cutting, making it easier to glide through the cut. If you’ve had problems with sticking, try a hollow-ground blade. Otherwise, use the Shun Classic 8-in. Chef's Knife as you would any other chef’s knife—for slicing, dicing, and chopping small to medium-sized fruits, vegetables, and other foods. With its curved belly, the Chef's knife can be gently "rocked" through fresh herbs or spices to produce a very fine mince.

The Shun Classic 8-in. Hollow-Ground Chef's Knife is part of the Shun Classic line of tasteful and contemporary cutlery. The Shun Classic line features beautiful Damascus-clad blades and D-shaped ebony PakkaWood handles. Yet behind these handcrafted knives' beauty is function: razor-sharp blades offering top performance. Shun's proprietary high-performance VG-MAX steel, which provides incredible edge retention, is clad with Damascus stainless steel, then ground and bead-blasted, revealing the flowing pattern of the layered steel. The result is a line of knives that are sharp, durable, and corrosion resistant, as well as beautiful to behold. The Shun Classic line also offers you the widest assortment of both traditional culinary blade shapes and cutting-edge designs, so you can always find the right knife for the task.

Knife Skills & Sharpening Videos

Learn to hold + use your knives ("pinch grip" and "claw hold") wash your blades, hone and sharpen them.

At Sign of the Bear (we LOVE knives and will LOVE to show you) OR spend a moment
with the exceptional online knife skills videos from the extraordinary Jacques Pepin (below) who reminds us to make a flat surface before you cut.

       

Discover Why SHUN's Beautiful Japanese Chefs' Knives took the U.S. Culinary Scene by Storm -

One Hundred Years of Beautiful Japanese Craftsmanship from Tokyo, Japan🇯🇵 brings you knives which are: 

Sharp, durable, corrosion resistant, and breathtakingly LOVELY

Why Cooks Love SHUN Knives :

They're beautiful, fast, light, agile - and so comfy.

What Helps Shun Slice So Easily?

• What Makes Shun Super Sharp?
•  Slightly Steeper Blades than German Knife-makers favor helps Shun Knives slice right through food.
• 34 layers of stainless Damascus cladding on each side 
• act as a natural nonstick to help food release from the blade  (extra helpful for moist high-starch foods like apples + potatoes or onions)
• This Damascus Cladding also
• supports the blades' core, and
• Adds stain resistance.
• Beautiful and Beautifully Balanced so they're so easy to hold.
• Easy On Your Wrists and Arms For Long Prep and Cutting Jobs:
• Light Weight Full-composite Tang and
• SUPER SHARP Blades Lighten The Load
• Ergonomic & LOVELY Ebony PakkaWood® handles
• fit the hollow in your closed hand so they're super-comfy to hold, even for long stints in the kitchen;
• PakkaWood®'s durable, beautiful, and won't harbor bacteria
• Each Beautiful Blade is Handcrafted in Japan 🇯🇵

Shun Knives have a core of VG-MAX steel, known for its incredible edge retention.

Shun Cutlery then clads their VG-MAX core with Damascus Stainless Steel, which is then ground and bead-blasted revealing the flowing pattern of the layered steel. This makes their knives thin, agile, fast, and ready to slice.

Instore Forged Knife Test Drive: Tools should fit YOU.

At Sign of the Bear we LOVE knives and will LOVE to help you find the blades that fit the hollow of your hand, and SHOW you how to properly hold and cut - so the knife fits your height, hand + cutting style -  and why people love the light, fast, agile Japanese blades.

AND invite you to learn with these brief exceptional online knife skills videos from extraordinary Jacques Pepin (below) who reminds us to make a flat surface before you cut.

Knife Skills & Sharpening Videos

Learn to hold + use your knives ("pinch grip" and "claw hold") wash your blades, hone and sharpen them at Sign of the Bear (we LOVE knives and will LOVE to show you) Classic Knife Skills - OR follow the extraordinary Jacques Pepin's brief videos. 

Here chef Jacques Pepin shows: