Once you pick up a Shun Kanso Nakiri, you’ll see why both professional and home cooks the world over choose this beautiful and useful tool when preparing fruits or vegetables.
Shun’s Kanso line is based on a Zen philosophy meaning Simplicity. For this series, Shun eliminated everything that was not essential to creating an excellent knife. Shun’s requirements for a high-quality knife are: high-quality steel, a razor-sharp edge, perfect balance, and precision cutting control. Kanso blades are made from a highly refined, high-carbon, vanadium Japanese stainless steel capable of taking a razor-sharp edge and holding it longer than other blades. The blades have a Heritage finish designed to hide scratches and give the knife a rustic look that improves with age. The handles are made from tagayasan wood and are contoured to fit comfortably in your hand. These knives have a full tang to give the knives strength and perfect balance.
Nakiri is simply Japanese for vegetable knife. With its straight blade, edge and spine, the nakiri is not curved for rocking like a chef’s knife. Instead, a simple push cut is used and swift work is made of vegetables of all kinds. Finely dicing onions is fast and easy, but with the Kanso Nakiri’s blunt end, it’s safer, too. The hollow-ground indentations along the edge of the blade help food to release more easily.
