"Jelly knife"

Found another knife I have never seen before on my browsing through Amazon Japan - the translation is "jelly knife" (Kanji is: 兼松 羊かん庖&#19969, looks like a giant nakari (240mm) or a small cleaver. Reasonably heavy at 340gm.

Anyone know what this knife is sued for??

TIA

Personal injury?

Oops stupid spell check "meant "used for"

Youkan (羊&#32697
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yōkan

I think.

Thanks Turboscooter but I am wondering what kind of knife it is and does it have any other uses (and why is it so heavy??) It must be really sharp to cut glorified jello??

jelly-fish?

Yeah it's for yokan. I'm no expert, but it's double bevel like a nakiri and thin overall (most I've seen are under 300g).

It could possibly be used like a nakiri, but the edge geometry is flatter like an usuba (or sobakiri)

Obviously cutting yokan isn't a supremely difficult task, though when cutting bigger sheets of it, a longer taller knife allows straighter lines, and a thin sharp edge produces cleaner edges and corners for presentation.

I don't cut yokan much and definitely not professionally, so take my conjecture with a big grain of salt.

羊羹 = (よ&#12358(か&#12435 = 羊かん (literally "sheep stock/broth", but means jelly even if it isn't made by boiling sheep heads).

It looks like a noodle knife, which I hear is wide for control. 340g isn't super-heavy for a knife of that width and length. For comparison, my 210mm noodle knife is 215g, so the jelly knife is somewhat heavier per cm^2 of blade.