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What are the benefits of a Damascus knife?
January 10, 2015 Damascus KnivesBlade Styles
This is a good and very essential question. Some like Damascus knives because of the aesthetic value for their gift, collection and cooking before people. If you personally like the Damascus pattern very much, we recommend one of the beautiful Damascus knives. From a view of strength and durability, such a multi-layer structure as Damascus …
SEKI KANETSUNE Damascus Series
January 5, 2015 Brands
KANETSUNE brand has been cultivated in the 800-year histrical blade capital of SEKI city, Japan. Each knife is hand sharpened to ensure maximum sharpness out of the box. We highly recommend you to once experience the excellent performance and beautility of the Damascus knives. http://www.hocho-knife.com/kanetsune/ If you need to get more details, welcome to visit …
Whether is the knife ready to use straight away?
January 4, 2015 Knife Sharpening
Recently, a customer asked us, “whether is the knife ready to use straight away or needed to be sharpened by myself?” (machine finishing) Normally, a obtuse angle finishing at the blade edge by a machine in manufacturers (called “standard blade finishing (sharpening)”) is applied to most of the knives that are stocked and displayed in …
TOJIRO cutting with No Pressure
December 28, 2014 Brands
Mr. Vadim Lerner, our customer in Israel, wrote an impressive article about TOJIRO Chef knife in his blog. Вадим Лернер, наш клиент в Израиле, написал впечатляющую статью о TOJIRO нож шеф-повара в своем блоге. http://photootchet.livejournal.com/360891.html We’d like to express my sincere gratitude to him. Мы хотели бы выразить искреннюю благодарность к нему. Thank you …
Edge Angle and Sharpness of Kitchen Knives
December 5, 2014 Knife Sharpening
In general, it may often be understood that more acute angle provides a better sharpness. Do you think it is really true?There is thought a misunderstanding. Angle of the cutting edge (at the edge point) does not affect the ability to cut things. Why? To think about cutting a thin material, both an obtuse and sharp …
Stylish brand in the knife capital, Sakai Takayuki
November 23, 2014 Damascus KnivesBrands
You know, Sakai is well-known as the representative production area of Traditional Japanese Kitchen Knives, that is located in Osaka prefecture next to Kyoto. “Sakai Takayuki” Knives have been cultivated through a long 600-year history in Sakai. The Takayuki produces some of the Stylish Damascus blades as we briefly introduced in a past blog. This …
Any Knife for Left-Handed Person?
November 9, 2014 Left-Handed KnivesBlade Styles
Recently, a customer asked us, “Is there a good knife for a Left-handed cook ? “ This may be one of the serious concern for left-handed people. Our answer is “YES”. There are some choice and examples as follows, (1) Double-edged stainless gyuto or santoku(all purpose knife) for both right-and-left handed, < Standard Stainless Type > < Damascus-Pattern Stainless Type (Good Idea for …
SHAPTON Professional Ceramic Waterstone (“HA NO KUROMAKU” in Japanese)
November 7, 2014 Knife Sharpening
Do you look for a waterstone developed for Specially Professional use ? The high-end ceramic whetstones investigated the grinding power, feeling of grinding and purpose by blending several sorts of selected compound products. The Professional series suite the various edged tool and purposes at each — kitchen knives ,chef’s knives, carpenter’s tool, razor, and …
Double-edged v.s. Single-edged Kitchen Knives
October 26, 2014 Knife SharpeningBlade Styles
Some customers asked us, “what is Double-edged and Single-edged blade?” The general answer for the kitchen knives is as follows, Double edged — sharpened on both left and right side of the blade *mostly for left-and-right handed *sharpening balance ….. mostly 50:50, sometimes 60:40 Single edged — sharpened on just one side of the blade surface *for left …
Annual Cutlery Festival in SEKI city, JAPAN
SEKI is a small historical city in GIFU prefecture, but an important production center of the Japanese kitchen knives. The 47th annual cutlery festival was successfully held on 11-12th October. The weather was fortunately good, while a super tyhoon VONGFONG is forecasted to seriously hit Japan on 13-14th. Many people came from around the world, to …
Unique Dimpled Hocho Brand, Glestain
September 28, 2014 TopicsBrands
Glestain knives have unique dimples in the blade’s surface. The dimples reduce surface tension between the blade and the food being cut, allowing faster, easier, and more efficient cutting. The Glestain All-Stainless knives are made in Japan by Honma Kagaku, immediately recognizable by their unique design. “Dimples” in the blade’s surface reduce surface tension between …
How to Sharpen a Bread Knife
September 12, 2014 Knife SharpeningHow to
Today, I’m writing an answer for a difficult question — How to re-sharpen a bread knife? Some might recommend to use a stick-type sharpener, but it does not seem easy to sharpen properly all the waves at the knife blade by such a stick… Therefore it is better to use whetstone (flat grinding stone) …
Champion Knife
August 21, 2014 TopicsDamascus Knives
The Tamahagane SAN Kyoto series are revered as “Champion knives” after being used by the Champion of “BOCUSE d’Or 2009” only one international cook-off. Tamahagane Kyoto Damascus Stainless Knife series are quite high quality, extremely sharp, hard, and durable for professional use. The 63 Layers Damascus and it’s beautiful design must impress you by the …
Blade Types & Purposes
July 5, 2014 Types & PurposesHow to
Have you been in any trouble when you looked for the kitchen knife for your better cooking ? We’d appreciate it if the following page could successfully help you 🙂 http://www.hocho-knife.com/knife-purposes-types/ Looking forward to seeing you in the Hocho-Knife online shop for Made-in-Japan Kitchen Knives. Thank you for reading and best regards! All the …
How to Sharpen a Kitchen Knife
June 17, 2014 Knife SharpeningHow to
In most cases, kitchen knives can successfully be re-sharpened. Do you like to try that for razor-sharpness ? We recommend to sharpen your knife with waterstones for better sharpening, not with a grinding rod. Does that look to really expend much time and effort compared to the benefit? Don’t worry about it. It get easy to for …
