Samura Sultan Pro Chef's Knife 166 mm, Stonewash

The Samura Sultan Pro chef's knife is an all-round kitchen knife with a 166 mm blade. It covers everyday prep, from slicing meat and fish to chopping vegetables, cutting fruit and slicing bread. Its stonewash AUS-8 stainless steel blade has a convex edge and is paired with a black TPE handle.

Blade and steel

The blade is made from a single layer of AUS-8 stainless steel, hardened to 58–59 HRC. For daily cooking this is a sensible hardness: the edge stands up well to everyday chopping, and you can restore it on a whetstone without much effort. AUS-8 is a corrosion-resistant stainless steel and keeps its condition when you wash and dry the knife soon after use.

The blade has a stonewash finish, one of the two finishes in the Sultan Pro series alongside satin. Like every Sultan Pro knife, it is honed with convex sharpening, which SAMURA describes as giving longer-lasting sharpness, higher durability and less drag. Less drag means the blade passes through food with less resistance.

Handle and balance

The black TPE handle is fashioned after a sabre. It gives you a confident, no-slip grip for strong, true cuts. The knife weighs 154 g and measures 294 mm overall.

Best uses

• Slicing, dicing and portioning boneless meat
• Cutting and portioning fish
• Chopping vegetables and dicing onions
• Slicing and cutting fruit
• Cutting bread

Care and sharpening

Rinse the knife with hot water and wipe it dry before first use, then always wash it by hand with non-abrasive materials and dry it straight away; a dishwasher is not recommended, and the knife should not be left in the sink for long. Use it on wooden or plastic boards, never on glass, and leave bones to a SAMURA cleaver and frozen food to a double-sided saw knife with a serrated blade. Keep it in a brush block or knife holder where the blade does not touch metal items. Between sharpenings, move the edge along a honing rod from the handle to the point, and resharpen on a whetstone at the original factory bevel angle of 15–17°.

About the Sultan Pro series

The Sultan Pro collection draws on the heritage of the Turkic pchak hunting knife of Central Asia. Its uniquely shaped, versatile knives combine convex-sharpened AUS-8 blades in a satin or stonewash finish with sabre-inspired TPE handles, and like all SAMURA knives, they come with a 2-year warranty.