Description
As a tool, the chef’s daily workhorse. As functional, heirloom art, a one-of-a-kind edged sculpture. The weighted, versatile, 208mm / 8.2″ blade makes this Salem Straub chef knife a daily driver loaded with power and toughness. Salem’s convex, symmetrical bevel geometry slims downward from a wide, tapering, stiff spine to a razor-sharp edge that balances precision with the mass and strength to handle the most demanding work and the largest, hardest ingredients. The blade’s spine thins progressively toward a fine, pointed tip that will perform with durability and resilience in the busy kitchen. The strikingly good looks of this build’s steel formula are, of course, impossible to ignore. Reclaimed vintage wrought iron clads a core of O2 high-carbon steel which forms the darkly etched edge. Thanks to the silicates and iron-oxides contained in the slag inclusions of wrought iron, sometimes with traces of sulphur as well, a fibrous, patterned appearance is often visible once polished and etched, and the visual in this particular knife is as striking as we have seen. For comfort and control, Salem has carved a gorgeous piece of ironwood, fitted it with a carbon fiber bolster, and completed with a single, flush, polished stainless pin.
