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| Shun Elite 4-1/2-Inch Wide Cook's Knife |  | Brand: Shun
Category: Kitchen
List Price: $175.00
Buy New: $79.95
as of 9/8/2010 14:49 EDT details
You Save: $95.05 (54%)
New (9) from $79.95
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 35,687
Color: Silver
Size: 4-inch
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 9 x 0.6 x 1.8
MPN: SG0401
Model: SG0401
EAN: 4901601428452
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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | 4-1/2-inch wide cook's knife from the elegant Shun Elite collection | | • | Handcrafted in Japan of incredibly sharp, strong SG-2 steel | | • | Beautiful black PakkaWood handle with inlaid design | | • | Decorative flourishes on handle and blade edge | | • | Wash by hand; lifetime warranty; gift-boxed |
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Product Description
The Shun Elite is an innovative combination of beauty and performance. Down to the smallest detail, the elegant design is directly inspired by the aesthetics of Samurai swords. From the Samurai family crest inlaid in the pakkawood handle to the superior blade steel, Shun Elite is built to impress - whether at rest on the kitchen counter or at work in the hand.Features:SG2, an exotic powdered steel that is hardened to 64 Rockwell (compared to 56-58 Rockwell for European kitchen knives), which results in an exceedingly sharp and smooth edge.Each blade is clad with two layers of SUS410 - one on each side. It is a softer stainless steel that provides strength, flexibility and corrosion-protection.Double-beveled blade.Pakkawood (premium, resin-impregnated hardwood), ambidextrous handle with Samurai family crest.NSF certified for use in commercial kitchens.
Amazon.com Review
Also known as the Deba-style mini chef's knife, this 4-1/2-inch knife is less intimidating than larger chef's knives and quickly tackles such tasks as mincing garlic and parsley and chopping celery or apple. The generous width of the blade allows the cook's knife to easily scoop up and transfer prepared food from the cutting board to a bowl or pan. A member of Shun's fabulous Elite collection, the knife features a sleek black PakkaWood handle, made of a hardwood-resin fusion, which showcases an inlaid traditional Japanese emblem and fine rings of copper and brass near the bolster. A distinctive flourish, called a "hamon," along the edge of the blade recalls the samurai swords once made in Seki City, Japan, where Shun Elites are handcrafted. Any chef would feel honored to receive this exceptional, gift-boxed knife. Shun Elite knives stand out for their incredible sharpness, sharper even than Shun Classics, thanks to the newest powdered steel alloy known as SG-2. The process used to make SG-2 results in a fine-grained, very dense blend of ingredients that creates a smooth-as-silk knife edge. Shun edges are formed to an unusually keen 16 degree angle, which is one reason they're so prized among chefs who value uniformly thin slices, a necessity in Japanese cuisine. Covered by a lifetime warranty, Shun Elite knives should be washed and dried--carefully--by hand, and stored when possible in a wooden block to protect the blade. --Ann Bieri
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| Customer Reviews:
 Perfect size and balance for a wide variety of tasks February 2, 2010
Paul Weiss (Portland, OR USA)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a beautiful little prep knife: well-balanced, comfortable to hold (even with my men's size 11 hands) and a really useful size. It's small enough to use for paring, and can be used for trimming and light chopping against a board. When used on the board, the blade is wide enough to use the chef's "pinch grip," giving all the benefits of that excellent grip. The combination of both a small bolster, which is easy to get your thumb and index finger in front of for the pinch, and also a subtly-designed handle swell which increases the diameter at my middle finger is a combination which fills my hand well, even though the knife is physically small. When you need to trim something against the board with a normal paring knife, you've got to move the object to the edge of the board to have clearance for your hand; with this knife, you can cut wherever it's convenient without barking your knuckles or changing to some inefficient or error-inducing grip. This thing is so light, well-balanced, and functional, that it just disappears within a minutes's use; conversely, it's large enough that I can use it for long periods without my hand getting crampy.
I've got a great bunch of individually-chosen knives, ranging in size from a 50-year-old 12 inch carbon steel Sabatier chef's knife and a 12 inch Forschner cimeter, and down to a much-used German bec d'oiseau and garnishing knives, but I think that this little Shun gets used the most times per day of any of them. (Well, maybe it ties with my 10 inch chef's.) The physical beauty of the knife is just gravy; first and foremost, it works great! Sometimes in the evening, as I have a last cup of tea while standing in front of my prep board, I pull the knife out and just enjoy how good it feels in my hand while I'm waiting for the tea to steep. I own lots of objects which I curse at every time I touch them; this one I thank for enriching my time in the kitchen. Sound weird to you? You probably haven't read this far... However, if you try to find tools which you can love because of how well they work, give this one a look.
 Unbelievably sharp, but a bit too small to be really useful February 4, 2008
Renee Gleason (New York)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I received this knife as a Christmas gift and it is my very first taste of Shun. As an avid cook, I can't begin to say how excited I was to get my hands on such a highly regarded knife as a Shun. Now THIS is a knife for a true cook. I have several knives of varying quality, ranging from the German steel of a Wusthoff to the less expensive (but very respectable) Forschner, and nothing, and I mean NOTHING cuts like a Shun. Sharp does not even begin to describe the steel of a Shun knife. This blade sails through an onion almost as easily as butter and it is an absolute joy to use. The handle feels comfortable in my hand, it's incredibly well balanced, it has ample knuckle clearance, and it is of the perfect weight in my opinion...not too heavy, not too light. It feels so natural in my hand. And let's face it, it's a gorgeous knife, as well. The swirly pattern in the steel remniscent of a samurai sword...it's kitchen art!
So why not a 5 star rating? Unfortunately, the short blade of this knife is just not long enough to be truly useful to me. I almost always use my 8 inch chef's knife or my 7 inch santoku, but the long blade of those is just too long when I only want to do small tasks like chopping garlic or mincing up a handful of herbs. I hate lugging out my large cutting boards for those little tasks, but my large knives are too big on my smaller cutting boards. I thought this 4 and a half inch Shun would be perfect for those little jobs when I only wanted to use my small boards. Unfortunately, however, the stubby blade is much too short to get a true continuous rocking motion, which is how I chop, and therefore I am finding this beautiful Shun collecting dust in my knife block. For those who don't mind using sharp up and down chopping movements, then this will not be an issue, but for me, it's just not serving the purpose I intended it to have. But I don't think this Shun will be lonely for too long. After a taste of this amazing Japanese steel, you can bet it will have company in my kitchen very soon! I can't wait to acquire more of these beauties!
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