KITCHEN KEEPERS
The first thing that struck me while unboxing three knives from Spyderco’s Itamae series is their lightness. They seem almost toy-like in weight, though the edge right out of the box was no joke—as the cut on my index finger where it came a bit too close to the blade attests.
The Itamae Series is Spyderco’s entry into the high-end kitchen knife market. There’s a lot going on in a thin, thin package. Pinching the flat of the blade between two fingers, it feels almost like nothing as the fingers slide forward right behind the edge. A quarter of an inch from the edge, a line like the horizon between sky and sea runs down the blade, showing the boundary between the laminated steels.
Chopping an onion, the Funayuki needed half the pressure to make a cut than one of the chef ’s knives freeloading in my kitchen. (The brand of the latter doesn’t matter; it’s
