The Cooking Pleasures Santoku has a 7.25-inch stainless blade with a full tang and a black synthetic handle.
The santoku is a Japanese kitchen pattern whose name translates roughly as three virtues, meaning slicing, dicing and mincing. The blade is shorter and taller than a Western chef’s knife, with a flatter edge and less pointed tip. That flatter profile suits a chopping motion straight down onto the board rather than the rocking motion a chef’s knife uses.
Full tang construction runs the steel the whole length of the handle, so there is no joint to loosen with repeated washing. Stainless keeps upkeep low in a kitchen where the knife meets water and acidic food daily. Explore more Kitchen Knives.
- Santoku pattern: shorter, taller and flatter than a chef’s knife
- Suits chopping straight down rather than rocking
- 7.25-inch stainless blade with a full tang
- Synthetic handle takes repeated washing
