AUS10 Santoku, 16.5cm
Sous Chef · £109
Worth being NRY provisional
AUS10 is a high-carbon Japanese steel close to VG-10, the name most people know, and easier to sharpen than it. That matters more than the hardness numbers: a knife you can bring back on a stone at home stays sharp, and one you cannot goes dull and stays dull. £109 is the sensible entry to Japanese steel.
- For
- Someone ready to move to Japanese steel who will learn to use a whetstone.
- Not for
- Anyone who sharpens with a pull-through, which will wreck this edge.
What we checked
- It is made from AUS10, a high-carbon steel the retailer compares to VG-10 and describes as easier to sharpen. Sous Chef
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.