[SET] Mcusta Zanmai Supreme Twisted [gyuto + santoku]

The Mcusta Zanmai Supreme Twisted Knife Set offers great versatility, featuring two key multi-purpose knives that can cover pretty much every cutting-related challenge in the kitchen. This set contains two knives:

• Mcusta Gyuto Supreme Twisted 240mm (9.5")
• Mcusta Santoku Supreme Twisted 180mm (7.1")

The knives come out of Mcusta's futuristic, custom-made laser machines. The monosteel blades are made of stainless, great-performing, and easy to resharpen VG-10 steel. A minimalistic, high polished blade with no extra features is designed to put the focus on the uniquely shaped twisted handle.

Their thin blade, typical for all Mcusta knives, will slice through your veggies, meat, and fish with ease and almost without any applied pressure to the knife.

Gyuto is the ultimate multi-purpose knife, always ready for any cutting technique — be it chopping, slicing or rocking on the kitchen board. Due to its long blade, it is perfect for slicing larger pieces of meat and fish, as well as preparing vegetables.

Santoku, its shorter and slightly wider counterpart, is also an all-rounder that will handle every kitchen task with ease, but it really shines when it comes across veggies in need of chopping. It is also suitable for cutting smaller to medium-sized pieces of meat and fish.

Each knife has a double bevel (symmetrical) blade with convex (full hamaguri) grind. Hamaguri grind allows superior sharpness that requires delicate handling and helps to prevent food from sticking to the blade. Such a shape keeps a lot of metal behind the edge and makes for a stronger edge, yet it still allows a good degree of sharpness. The downside to a convex grind is that it is very hard to reproduce by anyone other than a very experienced sharpener.

 

Supreme Twisted are full-tang knives, attached to the never-seen-before octagon-shaped, twisted red pakkawood handle, allowing for a comfortable and firm grip. A mosaic pin was added to the middle of the handle, a small detail which makes these knives even more special. A stainless bolster was added for a smooth transition from the blade to the handle.

☝️ All knives from the Supreme Twisted collection are packed in a luxury kiri box (made of paulownia wood), so these knives will make for a great gift. Just don't forget to attach a coin to it when presenting the gift!

About Mcusta Zanmai:
Mcusta Zanmai has an interesting (and very high-tech) philosophy of knife manufacturing. With their 800-year tradition of making knives, they decided to incorporate traditional knife craftsmanship knowledge into their own custom-made machines. Mcusta is the only knife manufacturer that uses laser machines to cut out the knives, instead of stamping the knives out of the steel sheet. Due to this process, their blades are less susceptible to structural stresses in the steel, making them the most innovative and modern knife makers in Japan.

Handles and pins are milled to the precision of 1/1000mm with their high-quality CNC machines. Every knife is then inspected and assembled by hand. The final (sharp) edge is sharpened by Mcusta's team of master craftsmen to get a very good out-of-the-box sharpness. 

☝️ Fun fact: Mcusta is a made-up word - a combination of Machine and custom!