Kershaw 7700 Series 7-Inch Clad Steel Chef's Knife
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Product Summary
Manufacturer: KershawBrand: Kershaw
Model: 7717C
Product features:
- Superior cutting technology from convex-shaped blade that eliminates the suction that causes food to stick to standard knives.
- VG-7 steel is clad with SUS410 high carbon stainless steel for superior edge retention.
- Cutting touch is quick and light, allowing for easier, more accurate cutting.
- Full-tang construction for strength and balance.
- Each blade is honed to Kershaw's famous "shaving sharp" edge.
Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Kershaw 7700 Series 7-Inch Clad Steel Chef's Knife
Customer Review: A cut above all the others
Summary: 5 Stars
OK, so the title for this review is a bad pun. You can blame me but you can't blame the knife: it is flawless. There is no way the knife can ever get less than 5 stars with this quality at Amazon's price (under 13 beans).
Until now, I have had a bunch of Calphalon knives (made in China) that are rugged, indestructible, and capable of with a single stab, of bringing down a rhino.
The Kershaw 7700 high carbon clad stainless steel knife is different, in both appearance and manufacture. Made of a single piece of steel, the handle is amazingly comfortable.
The blade is unlike anything else I have ever seen...other than on a samurai sword. The following comes from samuai-sword-site.com:
"Now comes the all important creation of the sword edge. Once the sword is pounded into the desired shape, the sword maker coats the spine edge of the blade (mune) with clay while leaving the cutting edge exposed (or sometimes, the entire blade is covered with the spine having a thicker coating of clay than the edge). The blade is then heated up again then instantly cooled in water (sometimes oil). This is where the importance of the clay comes in - the instant the blade is cooling, the uncovered cutting edge portion of the blade becomes very hard because it's being cooled very rapidly. The back edge that is covered in clay cools at a much slower rate preventing it from becoming as hard as the cutting edge. The clay is cleaned off, and what remains is an edge that is hard enough to hold a sharp edge (because it's got hard steel folded in and around it), but soft enough to resist direct impact (the softer metal of the spine makes it slightly springy). Pretty smart, eh? A nice side effect of the claying process is what's called the hamon. The Hamon is that wavy pattern along the edge of the blade."
If you look closely at this knife in light reflected off the blade, near the edge you can see what appears to be a Hamon, the same irregular wavy pattern that appears on a Samurai sword.
In the best of all worlds, form follows function. This knife does not disappoint. All tasks were dispatched with ease, including cutting through the hard crust of an Italian bread. "Slippery when wet" may be a concern while driving on a wet road, but this knife is not likely to slip around in your hand. The roughened surface of the handle sees to that.
The only problem with the knife is that Amazon can't keep them in stock. If you get the chance, don't buy one, buy several. Nice gifts to give, and packaged nicely in a quality see-through box.
Make sure you keep at least one for yourself.
Description of Kershaw 7700 Series 7-Inch Clad Steel Chef's Knife
Slim, sleek, and elegant, Kershaw's 7700 Series line of cutlery is a Design Plus Award winner for design, performance, use of technology, ecological qualities, and overall prouduct planning.Chef's Knives
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