Kanso Aogami Santoku, 18cm
Eden · £137
Worth being NRY provisional
Hand-forged aogami blue paper steel at 63 HRC, which is harder than anything else here and takes a finer edge for it, with a brut de forge finish and a red sandalwood handle at 160g. The catch is the steel: it is explicitly not stainless, so it wants wiping dry and will not go in a dishwasher. Eden cover it for twenty five years, which tells you what they expect of it.
- For
- Someone who will dry a knife after using it and wants the sharpest edge in this range.
- Not for
- Anyone who leaves knives in the sink, or wants to put them in a dishwasher.
What we checked
- Aogami blue paper steel at 63 HRC, forged and unpolished. Knivesandtools
- The steel is not stainless, so it needs drying. Knivesandtools
- Eden warrant it for twenty five years against material and manufacturing defects. Knivesandtools
Marked provisional: the justification rests on 1 source(s); two independent ones is the bar. We publish it anyway and say so, rather than waiting for evidence that may never arrive.