Victorinox Swiss Classic 8-Inch Chef's Knife with Granton Edge

Victorinox Swiss Classic 8-Inch Chef's Knife with Granton Edge
- Versatile Kitchen Knife: The overall shape, with a long, sloping curve, makes this cooking knife ideal for a wide variety of cutting tasks
- Ergonomic Cutting Knife: Our chef's knife is designed to minimize wrist tension while providing a secure grip; the textured knife handle provides a non-slip grip, even when wet
- Innovative Cooking Knife: The blade of this cutting knife features hollowed-out grooves, creating pockets of air that prevent food from sticking and ensuring uniform cuts
- Sharp Kitchen Knife: Made with lightweight Swiss stainless steel, this chef's knife is balanced for easy handling; the edge is also ground in two directions to stay sharp
- Swiss-Made Quality Home Essentials: Since 1884, Victorinox has been expertly crafting kitchen utensils designed for professionals
A great all-rounder. The 8" Swiss Classic Chefâ€™s Knife with Granton Blade can handle nearly every kitchen task imaginable, with its incredibly sharp edge and textured, ergonomic handle, each cut is like slicing through butter.

Weâ€™ve selected the best attributes derived from our rich commercial heritage and modified them to suit the home chef. The Victorinox Swiss Army Swiss Classic collection offers a contemporary handle, inspired by our patented Fibrox Pro line. Designed to minimize wrist tension while providing a secure grip, the contoured nylon handle is both lightweight and durable, making these knives seem less likes tools and more like an extension of your hand.

The Granton blade, also referred to as a hollow edge or fluted edge, features hollowed-out grooves or dimples on both sides on the blade. Depending on what is being cut, these grooves will fill with juices or create pockets of air, which prevents food from sticking to the blade and creates less friction to allow for easier motion when chopping or slicing. Even with the grooves, these are still straight-edge knives and can be honed with a sharpening steel, so they can remain razor sharp at all times. The tapered knife edge is ground in two directions to hold a sharp edge longer, and can easily be brought back to its original sharpness.

An all-purpose chef's knife is an essential tool in every kitchen. The 8" Swiss Classic Chefâ€™s Knife with Granton Blade takes it one step further, offering additional functionality. Optimally weighted with high-quality, lightweight European steel that reduces hand and wrist fatigue, this knife is comfortable even after extended use in the home kitchen. Perfectly suited for chopping or dicing onions, beets, or potatoes, mincing shallots, crushing garlic on the side of the blade, and slicing meats of all varieties, especially ham, smoked salmon, roasts and poultry. Its versatility will quickly make it your go-to knife.

At 8 inches, this knife offers the heft needed to complete larger tasks effortlessly, while still allowing for perfect maneuverability on smaller tasks that a larger, bulkier knife may not be able to accomplish as easily. The overall shape of the blade, with a long, sloping curve, lends itself to â€œrockingâ€ very well, allowing one to mince and chop with ease, while the flat spine allows you to comfortably press down on the blade when extra power is needed to slice through hard-skinned items like acorn, or butternut squash.

Whether a seasoned, or novice home chef, Victorinox Swiss Army offers not only the right tools and the know-how, but most importantly, the confidence to achieve oneâ€™s culinary aspirations. Expertly crafted in Switzerland since 1884, Victorinox offers a lifetime guarantee against defects in material and workmanship.

Please NOTE that this item ships with the International item number 6.8083.20 on the blade and not 6.8083.20US1, but is the same 8" Swiss Classic Chef's Knife with Granton Blade.

Formerly Forschner
In 1937 Victorinox began selling cutlery in America through a Connecticut distributor called R.H. Forschner & Co. A well-known manufacturer of butcher scales, Forschner soon became the exclusive U.S. distributor for Victorinox knives, and was the name by which Victorinox knives were known.

In 2011 Victorinox began marketing all its product lines, including kitchen knives, under the common umbrella name by which the company is now popularly known â€“ Victorinox Swiss Army.

Care and Use
Be good to your knives and theyâ€™ll be good to you. Following these simple guidelines will ensure that you get the longest life out of your knife!

Hand Washing
Victorinox Swiss Army recommends washing all knives by hand. For best results, hand wash your knives with a soapy cloth and dry immediately.

Dishwasher
While Swiss Classic knives are dishwasher safe, we recommend hand washing as dishwashers are designed to spray water at a relatively high pressure, which can jostle the silverware and cause the knives to collide, dulling the edge.

Maintaining your Knifeâ€™s Edge
For optimum performance, knives should be honed after every couple of uses. Proper and frequent use of a honing steel will keep your knives sharper and performing at their best, but remember that a honing steel will not sharpen a dull knife. Honing steels are maintenance tools and are used to help keep an already sharp blade from degrading. During use, a knife edge becomes rolled or turned from direct contact with cutting boards, bones or other hard objects. In this case, honing is necessary to straighten the edge of the knife. After significant use, the steel particles become damaged and the edge cannot be brought back by honing, so sharpening is necessary. If your knives are dull, pitted, or you see visible nicks on the cutting edge, youâ€™ll need to sharpen with a Swiss Sharp Handheld Sharpener (49002) or bring to a professional for re-sharpening.

History and Heritage
In 1884, Master Cutler Karl Elsener opened a cutlery shop in Ibach, Switzerland. There, he and the cutlersâ€™ union he formed produced the finest steel cutlery, finished with the now-famous proprietary edge preferred globally by professional and home cooks. In 1891, Karl supplied the Swiss Army with its standard issue Soldierâ€™s Knife and in 1897 with the Officerâ€™s Knife. In 1921, after the death of his mother, Victoria, and with the advent of stainless steel, then known as â€œinoxydableâ€ and used in the production of his cutlery, Karl changed the name of the company to Victorinox. It is from those humble beginnings that a worldwide icon was born.

Today, Victorinox is still owned and operated by the Elsener family, and both the company and family still resides in the small village of Ibach, Switzerland.

Country	USA
Brand	Victorinox
Manufacturer	Victorinox
Binding	Kitchen
ItemPartNumber	6.8083.20
Model	6.8083.20US1
Warranty	Lifetime warranty against original manufacturer's defects
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	2011-09-07
Size	8"
UnitCount	1
UPCs	046928543014
EANs	7611160124364

Victorinox Swiss Classic 8-Inch Chef's Knife with Granton Edge

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