Chops with ease. The santoku knife features a slimmer blade with a granton edge, designed to keep food from sticking to the blade when chopping. Santoku can be translated to ‘three virtues’ or ‘three uses’ – which means this knife is ideal for mincing, dicing and slicing. It's perfect for cuts big and small, and as it’s flatter than the chef's knife, it’s better suited for single downward cuts. The knife is fully-forged with high-grade chromium german steel.