TONIFE Santoku Knife with 7Cr17MoV High Carbon Stainless Steel Kitchen Knife with Natural Rosewood Handle 7-Inch

Nice knife for the priceIt's sharp and functional. It's super comfortable to use I can use this knife for hours with no problem.Love this chefs knife. Exactly what I expected. Very nice wood handle .

This knife is very sharp, lightweight and comfortable. I would highly recommend.

It’s probably not fair for me to compare this knife to high end cutlery including knives from Wusthof, Shun, Henckels, Global and MAC. My go-to Santoku is a modestly priced version from MAC. It has superb balance, sharpens up quickly and is light and ultra sharp. This Tonife would make a highly desirable gift to all but the most picky cutlery users. It comes in a beautiful box and the rosewood handle is absolutely stunning. Out of the box, it is nice and sharp. It’s handle heavy and thus not an ideal balance for a variety of hand sizes. For repeating tasks, a knife that is not in balance will lead to hand fatigue.Of importance, the manufacturer neglects to tell us what angle to sharpen to. As you may know, Japanese style knives are typically sharpened to roughly 17 degrees, and knives in the German cutlery tradition are roughly 20 degrees. This is all changing due to the popularity of Asian knives, Santokos in particular. Even the revered Wusthof is now making their knives to a sharper angle. My recommendation with this knife is to get an inexpensive honing tool or better yet, a pull through sharpener set to the Japanese standard. If I am able to contact the manufacturer for more guidance, I’ll update the review.To sum up, this knife looks like it could easily be triple the price. The quality is commendable. It would make a fantastic gift presentation and is a sharp value. As a gift to all but the most serious cooks, it’s worthy of five stars. In everyday use where it counts, despite its great looks, three stars.

No problems with this Knife. I have a used a variety of Santoku knives over the years. I'm by no means an expert, but I have found you don't need to spend much for a decent knife for every day kitchen needs. Slice, chop, dice? This is your knife!I am a big fan of some way pricier quality knives, but that is best left for the most serious chefs, ya know? I am pretty impressed with this Santoku. It is well balanced in weight and feel. I liked seeing how even the tang is- maintains thickness along cutting edge. There is a little bit of rocking to allow continued dicing needs, but not too much- just right. As for the Granton edge, I always have food layered up on it as I am dicing along. Never met one that didn't hold some goodies.Thinking back over the weekend, I sliced an over ripe tomato, I diced tomatoes, same with onions, zucchini, carrots, and chicken breast. All with ease and success. I barely had to put any pressure on the cooked boneless chicken breast as I sliced it thin. It was rather fun. I was feeling like a real chef with how nice it was turning out.The knife comes in a box, but there is no other information that comes with it- nothing about the product, the company, how to take care of it or anything. I tossed the box and I will keep it in a drawer to play with my other lesser santokus.I haven't had to sharpen it yet- only have had it for a few days, but I have been using it. I mostly just wipe it off after using it, but if I had cut raw stuff, I'd wash it with soap and water by hand, and dry it with a towel.That natural rosewood handle is a beauty. It is smooth and polished. Attractive to look at; would make a nice gift.

The best feature here is the steel, which is found in many inexpensive knives. It takes an edge and stays sharp if you don't misuse it. I have sharpened this once after purposely being rough on it for testing purposes. You can get this edge very sharp.The weight of this knife, being very light is usually a positive for me, though i this case, I like it. The Santoku is designed for cutting vegetables very fine. That is what i use it for and that is what a lightweight knife like this can do well. If it were a regular chef's knife, I would not be happy with the flimsy feel.The balance is toward the handle, not ideal but I have used such knives before.Overall, I would be happy with this for the price it sells for. Just be sure you know how this knife is designed to be used and what it is designed to do

Tonife Santoku Knife is good value for the cost. The blade is sharp enough to cut with a little pressure. The knife itself is not balanced as my more expensive knives are. While the lightweight handle is nice to look at, it is not enough of a counterweight for the steel blade so that the center of gravity is somewhere in the blade rather than at your hand. This wont be a big deal for jobs where there are one or two cuts to be made, but for repeat cuts, the lack of balance will get tiring. For people who cook a lot, a better balanced knife would be better.

I use this knife mainly for cutting vegetables or cooked food, so no raw meat, no bones, etc, just to make sure it clear I never try this knife for those other scenarios.First thing I always like to try the sharpness by using tomatoes, it was super fantastic, especially it’s just a $20 range cutlery. It cuts up the tomatoes pretty clean, and cuts thru, without making any mess. I can make very thin slice tomatoes with it. Cutting cooked meat (steak) works very well too, no problem at all.

Santoku knives are very popular and pretty useful for chopping, since it has cuts in single downward movement.This knife came in gift box and edges were protected by plastic casing. The knife holds firmly in the hand. Pretty sharp, I was able to cut most of the vegetables pretty easily, though I did not tried on any meats. Finger protector would have been nice addition.Overall, for the price, the knife is worthy addition to the kitchen and nice gift for house warming.