Takayuki Grand Kitchen knives are made with the highly regarded Bohler N690 stainless steel, produced by Bohler-Uddeholm and prized for some of the lowest impurities of any stainless steel on the market. The quality iron used in N690 is excavated from company mines with an exceptionally low phosphorus and sulfur content, resulting in a steel regarded as one of the finest in the world for cutlery use.
While mono steel knives lack the handmade look of forged, layered blades, they make up for it with precision, consistency, and durability. The fully stainless construction makes them genuinely easy to maintain, an essential quality in busy home or professional kitchens. This is a very unusual knife given its style and construction - deba knives are traditionally single bevel, very stout at the spine, and quite heavy, built to fillet and process fish. The Grand Chef Western Deba flips that script: a double bevel knife that is still thick at the spine, with a 245mm edge length that runs fairly long for the breed. It looks like a gyuto in profile but carries nearly twice the weight of a similarly sized one. Being double sided, it is far easier to sharpen than a traditional single bevel deba and suits both left- and right-handed cooks.
Care Instructions: Bohler N690 is a fully stainless steel - hand wash and dry after each use. Avoid the dishwasher. Sharpen on quality water stones and strop regularly between sharpenings. Avoid bones, frozen foods, and hard materials that could chip the blade at this hardness level.
While mono steel knives lack the handmade look of forged, layered blades, they make up for it with precision, consistency, and durability. The fully stainless construction makes them genuinely easy to maintain, an essential quality in busy home or professional kitchens. This is a very unusual knife given its style and construction - deba knives are traditionally single bevel, very stout at the spine, and quite heavy, built to fillet and process fish. The Grand Chef Western Deba flips that script: a double bevel knife that is still thick at the spine, with a 245mm edge length that runs fairly long for the breed. It looks like a gyuto in profile but carries nearly twice the weight of a similarly sized one. Being double sided, it is far easier to sharpen than a traditional single bevel deba and suits both left- and right-handed cooks.
Care Instructions: Bohler N690 is a fully stainless steel - hand wash and dry after each use. Avoid the dishwasher. Sharpen on quality water stones and strop regularly between sharpenings. Avoid bones, frozen foods, and hard materials that could chip the blade at this hardness level.
- Brand: Takayuki
- Line: Grand Chef
- Location: Sakai, Japan
- Construction: Mono Steel
- Steel: Bohler N690 Stainless Steel
- HRC: 60
- Knife Type: Western Deba
- Handle: POM
- Weight: 12.9 oz (366 g)
- Blade Length: 245mm
- Spine Thickness at Heel: 4mm
- Blade Height: 58mm
