Professional Knife: The Santoku is a superior-quality Japanese chopping knife. The name "Santoku" means "three virtues," used for your daily kitchen tasks of chopping, dicing, and mincing of all kinds of meat, fish, and vegetables.? Multi-Purpose Cooking Knife: Choosing a Santoku Japanese knife is a smart choice for cutting meat, slicing cheese, mincing food, from meat to herbs, slicing food, and from fruit to nuts. It is also best for transferring food from a cutting board to a pan or dish, creating fine slices for visual presentation like seafood and salads. Hollow Edge Design: The 7-inch Meat knife with a scalloped hollow edge adds a gap between the knife blade and the material being cut, keeping things from sticking to the knife blade, special for slicing, dicing, and mincing Forged Blade, Lasting Handle: Each blade is forged, ensuring superior sharpness, making it a great vegetable knife. The traditional Rosewood handle, renowned for its durability and natural polish retention, you'll experience a balanced feel and optimal control with every use Quality Assurance: Over a thousand years of craftsmanship have inspired the final form of the Ginsu Santoku, a stainless steel blade that will stand the test of time. The Santoku sharp knife features high-quality steel from Japan – a steel with high corrosion resistance and durability. Each blade completes a rigorous quality assurance process and is tested and retested to ensure it meets the distinction and caliber of GINSU KATANA.