Güde Alpha Barrel Oak Chai Dao Knife 16 cm - CVM Steel - Handle Scales Wine Barrel Oak Wood

You probably know the Japanese Santoku. But have you heard of the Chai Dao? This is, in addition to the Chinese chef's knife that looks like a cleaver to Europeans, a preferred knife in Chinese kitchens.

The Alpha Barrel Oak Chai Dao has a 16 cm long, very wide blade made of rust-free and hand-sharpened chrome-vanadium-molybdenum steel. With the wide blade, you can easily cut larger ingredients and it is also used as a shovel.

Güde knives are hand-forged from a single piece of chrome-vanadium-molybdenum steel, from the tip of the blade to the double bolster. The double bolster, a special feature of Güde knives, provides a counterweight to the blade. The knife is perfectly balanced. The special steel blend and the elaborate manufacturing process with over 30 manual steps give the rust-free blades with a hardness of about 58 HRC a special robustness and durability.

The finely polished handle scales made of oak wood from wine barrels over 80 years old, called stave wood, are embedded in the steel and triple-riveted. Due to the long aging process, the coarse-structured wood is extremely hard and almost indestructible. The Alpha Barrel Oak series was created in collaboration with Michelin-starred chef Harald Rüssel and his wife Ruth. Harald Rüssel's signature can be found as a laser engraving on each blade.