Not in the mood for reviews, just a cutting shoot out on the four 210s I’ve got, two of them just came in & they are all well known.
Not just carrots, I did potato’s too, woopty doo!
I also don’t care about food separation much, they all are pretty good, sticks just a little but nothing major, so the shoot out is for cutting.
Carrot cuts:
I got thick 1.25” diameter carrots. All these are already great knives, none of them wedged.
Kochi is very thin behind edge, & has a concave grind making it even thinner. But it’s the only one that I felt a little resistance going through the carrot, no idea why. I was kind of surprised, I think it was the winner in a recent carrot cutting video.
The others went right through, with Tanaka Sekiso the easiest, almost no resistance. Another surprise, because Tanaka is the cheapest of the bunch.
Potato cuts:
Very easy for all of them, the 3rd surprise here was that Kochi, who lost on carrots, overtook Denka & Toyama on the potato cut. Given that potato is easier to cut than carrot, I think carrot cutting is more important thou.
Tanaka won again, it’s got to be the grind. The Tanaka is thinner, but so is my Kurosaki & it doesn’t kick ass like this Tanaka Sekiso. I wonder if the full spine-to-edge convex grind made the difference? As Kochi, Toyama, & Denka all have the bevel grind starts half way, so the angle approaching the edge is larger. The only other knife I’ve had with full convex grind going from spine to edge was Kato WH & it already out cut my Toyama even with much thicker spine. Imagine a Kato but half the thickness? That’s the Tanaka Sekiso B2 dammy, it totally kicked ass.
The only thing I wish for is a bit heavier (it’s only 151g even with the metal bolster I installed during Yo handle conversion)
I think my ideal 210 knife would be Toyama (185g) with full convex grind that goes from spine to edge, not starts bevel half way of the height. Anyone knows what other Gyutos have spine to edge full convex grind?
Cutting Summary:
Tanaka > Denka > Toyama > Kochi
Tanaka > Kochi > Denka > Toyama
1st picture left to right: Kochi, Denka, Toyama, Tanaka
Not just carrots, I did potato’s too, woopty doo!
I also don’t care about food separation much, they all are pretty good, sticks just a little but nothing major, so the shoot out is for cutting.
Carrot cuts:
I got thick 1.25” diameter carrots. All these are already great knives, none of them wedged.
Kochi is very thin behind edge, & has a concave grind making it even thinner. But it’s the only one that I felt a little resistance going through the carrot, no idea why. I was kind of surprised, I think it was the winner in a recent carrot cutting video.
The others went right through, with Tanaka Sekiso the easiest, almost no resistance. Another surprise, because Tanaka is the cheapest of the bunch.
Potato cuts:
Very easy for all of them, the 3rd surprise here was that Kochi, who lost on carrots, overtook Denka & Toyama on the potato cut. Given that potato is easier to cut than carrot, I think carrot cutting is more important thou.
Tanaka won again, it’s got to be the grind. The Tanaka is thinner, but so is my Kurosaki & it doesn’t kick ass like this Tanaka Sekiso. I wonder if the full spine-to-edge convex grind made the difference? As Kochi, Toyama, & Denka all have the bevel grind starts half way, so the angle approaching the edge is larger. The only other knife I’ve had with full convex grind going from spine to edge was Kato WH & it already out cut my Toyama even with much thicker spine. Imagine a Kato but half the thickness? That’s the Tanaka Sekiso B2 dammy, it totally kicked ass.
The only thing I wish for is a bit heavier (it’s only 151g even with the metal bolster I installed during Yo handle conversion)
I think my ideal 210 knife would be Toyama (185g) with full convex grind that goes from spine to edge, not starts bevel half way of the height. Anyone knows what other Gyutos have spine to edge full convex grind?
Cutting Summary:
Tanaka > Denka > Toyama > Kochi
Tanaka > Kochi > Denka > Toyama
1st picture left to right: Kochi, Denka, Toyama, Tanaka
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