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What are the best knife set in my cooking school?
December 12, 2015 about HochoBlade Styles
A new cooking school owner was looking for her best knives. “I am about to pull the trigger on a few knives. However, I’ve started cooking school, though I’ve been cooking for a while, and I am still unsure on which would be the best tools for me. I mean I know which types of knives …
I would like to have the knife hardness 64-65 up !
July 12, 2015 about HochoSteel Qualities
Some customers seek kitchen knives with very high degree of hardness, for example, “I would like to know about you knife I would like to get 1 yanagiba and 1 deba. I would like to know the scale of Rockwell hardness please let me know, thank you very much. I would like to have the …
Culture of Japanese Kitchen Knives
June 21, 2015 Topicsabout Hocho
This is a documentary of Sushi Knives by NHK, The Japan Broadcasting Corporation. Its narration is in English, so very useful for you to understand in detail. If you have any question, please feel free to contact us anytime. Thank you for reading and best regards! All the Hocho-Knife staff ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “Hocho” represents Made-in-Japan (Sushi …
Why SAKAI ?
May 18, 2015 Topicsabout Hocho
Much high-quality Japanese knives originates from SAKAI in Osaka, Japan, the capital of samurai sword manufacturing since the 14th century.The Sakai sushi knives industry started in the 16th century and nowadays enhanced its reputation for quality worldwide. You know, it is said that around “90%” of the professional Japanese-style-ood chefs in Japan use the knives …
Kitchen-knife mound, “Hocho-Zuka”
May 4, 2015 Topicsabout Hocho
“Hocho-Zuka” is a kitchen-knife mound in Japan to pray for prosperity of your business and thankfulness for the knife you have used. People dedicate their used kitchen knives into it, and make a commitment in front of the mound that they strive to study more and more of the cooling skill in future. Thank …
Blade Styles — (3)Japanese Style Knives
August 25, 2013 Types & Purposesabout HochoBlade Styles
Originally, all Japanese kitchen knives were made from the carbon steel as Samurai swords (katana). More expensive multi-layer (more than three-layer) knives have a similar quality, containing an inner core of hard and brittle carbon steel, with a thick layer of soft and more ductile steel sandwiched around the core so that the hard steel …
Blade Styles — (2)Western Style Knives
August 23, 2013 Types & Purposesabout HochoBlade Styles
In Japan, Western-style knives were developed to meet the needs of Japanese chefs preparing non-Japanese cuisine. Today, Japanese knife makers are engineering new advanced manufacturing processes such as ‘sub-zero tempering’ and premium trademark-formulated knife steels to produce exceptional Western-style knives. However, what really sets Western-style knives from Japan apart from the typical Western-style knives is …
Blade Styles — (1) Western versus Japanese
August 21, 2013 about HochoBlade Styles
Most knife manufacturers in Japan have both the Japanese-style knives and Western-style knives. There are lots of Japanese knives with Western-style handles or blades or both, pretty much any maker in Japan has several knives in Western-style and vice versa, most of all the major knife manufacturers in Europe and US make several Japanese influenced …
Structure of Hocho
August 17, 2013 about HochoKnife StructureSteel Qualities
Originally, all Japanese kitchen knives – Hocho – clearly show their relation to the Samurai sword. The blades are forged traditionally in multiple layers, with an inner core of hard and brittle carbon steel, forgewelded with a thick layer of soft and more ductile iron steel sandwiched around the core so that the hard steel …
“Hocho”, History and Production area
August 16, 2013 about Hocho
“Hocho” is the word that represents kitchen knives in Japanese. The Hocho is thought the most important tool for professional and amateur cooks. Japan has developed the aesthetics of food preparation like no other country, with the Hocho. Using the Hocho, the chef celebrates the art of cutting, which makes the preparation of fine fish and delicate vegetables a …
