Shun Kanso 9″ Bread Knife

Make effective work of cutting up bread with soft or hard crusts with the Shun Kanso 9″ Bread Knife. The long, narrow blade with its enhanced serrated edge makes it easy to slice all kinds of crust, tomatoes, and thick-skinned fruits like cantaloupe and watermelon. Since the blade is razor sharp, the slices will look beautiful and will not crush any bread you are trying to cut as you saw back and forth.

Named after a design principle based on Zen philosophy, Kanso means, “simplicity”, a principle achieved by eliminating the non-essential. For the Kanso collection, Shun took away anything that doesn’t matter and kept everything that does: high-performance steel, a razor-sharp edge, perfect balance, and precision cutting control. The steel is Japanese AUS10A, a highly refined, high-carbon, vanadium stainless steel that takes a razor-sharp edge and keeps it longer. The rustic heritage finish hides scratches and improves with age. The Tagayasan (“iron sword wood”) is dense, durable, and beautiful. Full-tang construction provides strength, balance, and easy cutting control.

Like all of Shun’s knives, this Kanso Bread Knife is sharpened to a 16° cutting angle on each side to cut cleanly. Use this handcrafted knife to take care of the small yet difficult matters along your meal prep for any time of day!

Shun Kanso 9″ Bread Knife Features:

• Long, narrow blade makes it easy to slice large cuts of meat
• Quality serrations help it cut bread, tomatoes, and thick-skinned fruits
• Rounded tip makes it safer and easier to use
• Blade made of Japanese AUS10A – highly-refined, high-carbon, vanadium steel
• Hand-sharpened 16° cutting edge is extremely sharp, yet lasts a long time
• Hollow-ground indentation help food release from blade
• Full-tang
• Heritage finish – gives blade a rustic look, hides scratches, and improves with age
• Handle is contoured Tagayasan
• 60 Rockwell rating
• Blade length: 9″
• Limited lifetime warranty
• Handcrafted in Japan

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