Opinel - N°119 Santoku Knife Parallèle – Premium Multi-Purpose Japanese-Style Kitchen Knife

Opinel - N°119 Santoku Knife Parallèle – Premium Multi-Purpose Japanese-Style Kitchen Knife

The Opinel N°119 Santoku Knife Parallèle is a multi-purpose kitchen powerhouse, expertly engineered to bring the precision of Japanese culinary design to the modern home kitchen. Part of the contemporary Parallèle collection, this exceptionally versatile knife excels at the three classic culinary pillars: slicing, dicing, and chopping. Featuring a distinctively robust blade profile and a continuous cutting edge, it provides effortless stability and fluid movement, making it an indispensable, high-performance tool for passionate home cooks and professional chefs alike.

Best For Home cooks, meal-preppers, and culinary enthusiasts seeking a stable, rigid, and razor-sharp Asian-style chef knife that simplifies heavy vegetable chopping, meat portioning, and precision herb mincing.

Key Features

• Heavy-Duty Rigid Blade: Features an ultra-robust **3 mm thick blade** that provides maximum rigidity, balance, and structural stability, preventing the steel from flexing when cutting through dense, heavy ingredients.

• Continuous Cutting Edge: Intentionally designed with a continuous, unhindered edge that completely frees up the heel of the knife. This allows for full-length blade contact with the cutting board, dramatically increasing chopping efficiency and smoothness.

• High-Quality Stainless Steel: Forged from premium corrosion-resistant stainless steel, ensuring the blade remains bright and completely free from rust or staining, even when working with highly acidic ingredients.

• Ergonomic Beechwood Handle: Outfitted with a premium, durable French beechwood handle that offers a soft, natural touch and a secure, comfortable grip, giving you confident leverage during long prep sessions.

Specifications

• Blade Length: 16.5 cm

• Handle Length: 13.5 cm

• Overall Length: 30 cm

• Blade Thickness: 3 mm (Heavy-duty rigidity)

• Blade Material: Premium Corrosion-Resistant Stainless Steel

• Handle Material: Traditional French Beechwood

• Blade Style: Santoku / Continuous Edge

• Available Colour: Beech

Ideal For (Uses)

• Precision Slicing & Dicing: Flawlessly dicing onions, segmenting bell peppers, processing root vegetables, and creating paper-thin slices of cucumber or radish.

• Clean Meat & Seafood Prep: Effortlessly portioning boneless proteins, slicing strips of beef or chicken for stir-fries, and cleanly trimming skin away from fish fillets.

• Rapid Herb Mincing: Utilizing the flat, continuous edge for fast, clean down-strokes to quickly mince flat-leaf parsley, rosemary, garlic, and fresh ginger without bruising the produce.

Pro Tip: Meaning "Three Virtues" in Japanese, a Santoku knife is celebrated worldwide because its flatter profile is optimized for a clean, efficient up-and-down chopping motion, rather than the rocking motion of a traditional Western chef knife. To preserve the stunning natural grain and mechanical longevity of the authentic beechwood handle, please avoid the dishwasher and never leave the knife soaking in a wet sink. Simply hand-wash the blade with warm, soapy water after use, wipe it dry immediately, and store it safely in a knife block. An occasional light coat of food-safe mineral oil on the timber will keep your Santoku looking pristine for decades!