Shun Sora 6" Hollow Edge Nakiri Knife

The Shun Sora Hollow Edge Nakiri Knife is simply Japanese for "vegetable knife." Once you get the Shun Sora Nakiri in your hands, you'll soon see why both professional chefs and good cooks around the world choose this beautiful and extremely useful tool whenever they have fruits or vegetables to prepare.

Shun pronounced "shoon" in Japanese, is known as "at the peak of perfection". The Shun Sora line provides exceptional handcrafted Shun quality at an amazing price. Sora uses Shun's proprietary Composite Blade technology to bring together a VG10 san mai cutting edge with a Japanese 420J stainless steel upper. This technology puts high-performance material exactly where it's needed—on the edge. The two blade sections are laser cut, then fit together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Braze welding permanently joins them. The attractive wavy pattern at the joint is based on traditional Japanese sword hamon lines. While Sora's blade shapes and handle design are traditional Japanese, the textured PP/TPE polymer blend handle material provides a contemporary look, secure grip and balance, and is easy to maintain. Made in Japan.

A nakiri is a Japanese-style vegetable knife. Once you get the Shun Sora Hollow Ground Nakiri in your hands, you will see why both professional chefs and good cooks around the world choose this beautiful and extremely useful tool whenever they have fruits or vegetables to prepare. With its straight blade, edge, and spine, the nakiri is used with a simple push cut. You will love the clean, swift work it makes of vegetables of all kinds. For daily salad preparation or slicing vegetables for stir-fry, it cannot be beat. Finely dicing onions is fast, easy, and with the Shun Sora Hollow Ground Nakiri's blunt end, safer, too. The hollow-ground indentations on the side of the blade create small air pockets that reduce friction when cutting, making it easier to glide through each cut.