Good price on this knife.
Sourdough fans like it. Was considering getting via a specially store with a bday voucher then saw it much cheaper here.
Can one sharpen them?
CamelCamelCamel.
You can sharpen it, but sharpening serrated knives, especially a long one like this is generally a pain and not worth the hassle. The nice thing about these is they're cheap, if you care for them, they'll last a long time, and when they're really and finally dull, you can buy a new one
you can sharpen them with sandpaper
What’s the best approach?
@MerlinKlendatu: Wrap a chopstick with sandpaper. Place in groove. Match taper, and file up and down. Repeat for each serration. Remove burr from the flat side after. There's some good youtube videos out there.
@MerlinKlendatu: Proper way is to use a tapered diamond file and you just run it on each serration. But they are $20. The dodge way is add a slight bevel to the flat side so it gets a lil sharper. Be aware of you do this it will eventually make it a flat slicer lol
@MerlinKlendatu: best approach's to take care of it like any other tool that's worth looking after.
take care of it and it wont get dull
@0jay: Like all blades (including chisels, planes, saws etc) knives will wear through use.Good blade care includes proper sharpening., ideally on a whetstone. An occasional pass over a smooth honing rod, can maintain an effective cutting edge between sharpenings but it cannot remove the need to sharpen all together. Even the toughest steel steel edge will eventually wear from ordinary cutting.
Even the toughest steel steel edge will eventually wear from ordinary cutting
if folks didn't throw cutting edges in cutlery drawers, it they didn't use marble platters for cutting boards, if they didn't shove them in cutlery baskets to rattle around against other steel items then that eventual wear would be massively postponed.
i'm not suggesting edges never need to be refreshed. take care of it and it won't get dull is a guideline and worth repeating.
@0jay: Agree.. For sure most people can make a blade last much longer by taking care of it, and most people could increase the edge life span between sharpening by using some common sense steps as you suggested. Moreover, when you take care of a knife, and extend its lifespan, you can justify spending more and getting better knives :p
Thanks, I am aware, was just answering OP's question
Damnit! I paid $37 in 2022. Ha.
It's a nice knife and does what it's supposed to do well. Glad I have it.
Worth it for the price do u think? How is it holding up a few years in? Much usage? Do u handwash/dishwasher?
Ahhh… Objectively, I think my value system is a bit screwed up and I'm fine with spending more money on something I want when I think I want/need it. I went from a cheap supermarket bread knife, which worked okay I think from memory, to a Furi bread knife which was good to use, but I didn't really like the aesthetic of it, to this. Which I found cuts bread well how I use it, and is nice to use (cutting ability, weight, handle feel kind of thing, and did prefer over the Furi). But did the cheap supermarket knife do the same thing as the other two knives in the end? Probably.
I certainly don't use it every day, so it hasn't had a hard life, but nothing suggests it's not going to last.
And with the wood handle I'd never put it in the dishwasher. But with only cutting bread, other than occasionally cutting some roast pork, a quick scrub under a running tap is fine in my opinion and takes no time to do.
Would I buy it again if somehow I had to start from scratch? Yeah. (assuming it was on special)
You should never put knives in the dishwasher, wooden or plastic handles
Thanks for that 👍
It's a very good knife. If I hadn't got this https://www.amazon.com.au/Mercer-Culinary-Millennia-Offset-9… it would have been the Tojiro.
Nah that's ayt. When it comes to more rugged serrated bread knives, Mercer, Global, Wusthof, Victorinox are king.
is a bread-slicer knife an upgrade from a breadknife?
i have a regular breadknife do i need this if most of my breadknifing is slicing..?
I have this knife… there is no evidence of it being made in Japan. No idea where it is made.
Its good for cutting bread… but no idea of ours an upgrade for you though
It says made in Japan on the blade in the picture. False advertising 🤔
Mine doesn't say it
This is longer than 20cm and therefore a machete under victorian law. Good luck rioters!
Yeah, it's 20cm non-kitchen knives. This is obviously a kitchen knife
Machetes are kitchen knives, the Vietnamese and Filipinos rock them backwards and forwards to mince meat
@Donmega123: That's a pretty unusual use-case. I've spent a lot of time in both places and I've only seen it happen once, and that was by a crazy tourist from the US. Having said that, I'm also not here to debate the logic of the bill, just to point out that this knife is very clearly not considered a machete under Victorian law.
@Soapdroid: Australian laws are super hysterical I don't understand why everyone is so scared of northern suburbs eshays be a man not a mouse.
@entropysbane: My heart goes out to them it seems like a pretty bleak existence, they weren't even holding the machetes properly. A teacher should pull them aside and tell them that they probably aren't tough enough to be a real gangster so they better buckle down and study.
Can you please share a victorian legal link to that definition
Ya betta get on hammer and car, before it get the same treatment
This is a very good bread knife. Have had one since 2021 and it’s till sharp despite regular use.
It's fine we've got one, good for slicing bread but any well sharpened knife will cut bread surgically, it's more that it takes that wear off your good knives.
Has no one heard of sliced bread? 😅
That's smart.
Some people make their own bread
Some nice bread sold out there are also not cut.
This is the best comment since…
Have just wandered into the world of making my own bread so this deal is great timing, thanks!
Hows this gonna go in the mail? Gonna be confiscated?
Just fine and no
Yep, and hidden hard drives to get confiscated
Just package it with hash from Morocco it'll sail right through
Get the one with replaceable blades
Showing as $35 for me, how are you getting the price in the post?
Yesh looks like price has gone back up, different thitd party selling store. Not awful @ $35, specialty store was selling above rrp :S
Good price, not keen on wood handles myself. As an alternative for anyone interested, the forged Mercer Renaissance bread knife (X50CrMov15 German steel, made in Taiwan) is also at a good price. https://www.amazon.com.au/Mercer-Culinary-Renaissance-8-Inch…
Thanks. I was concerned about wooden handles in the dishwasher.
I'd recommend against putting any forged knife in a dishwasher. It takes a matter of seconds to wash a knife by hand.
It's almost a rite of passage, you have to snap something expensive in the dishwasher before you never ever ever do anything like this again with decent knives
There's no good reason to put a bread knife in the dishwasher if you're just using it for bread. Just dust the crumbs off and it's ready to put away.
Really try and avoid putting any good knife in the dishwasher. They're so easy to clean and they'll serve you better.
Why would you put a bread knife in the dishwasher, you could virtually put it back in the drawer how clean they stay after slicing
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Looks like it is MIJapan? Or do u know definitely otherwise?
Legit question….. is it actually made in China? I thought Tojiro was japanese?
It won't be Japanese at this price and if it was, they'd certainly make a big deal out of it and tell you.
Well the default image for the listing has 'Made in Japan' on the blade.
Mine has 'Made in Japan' on the blade.
So you're saying they're lying?
I'm 99 percent sure I have a smaller tojiro brand nakiri that has been fantastic I think it was about a hundred bucks when I bought it years ago
Tojiro are in fact a well established Japanese manufacturer. all their knives are marked Made in Japan. I have a few. and recently ordered this very one. It is marked "Made in Japan". have to say the fit and finish on the bread slicer isn't the best. There is a visible burr that should be taken off and a little gap between the end of the blade and where it slots into the handle, the pins are a smidge proud of the handle surface etc.. but for this price and a japanese made knife you can't complain. It is decent steel and even has a little bit of a distal taper. Can't really ask for more for a bread knife at this price.
Bought one of these back in 2019 for $27. Just bought a second one thanks op. Crazy good bread knife.
does it come with a free bail application?
After reading the 1 and 2 star reviews, it seems it's not the same knife in the pictures or what it used to be. It looks like the suplier has changed and it can now be poor quality.
Followup review:
Purchased and TBH my 6mo victorinox 9cm serrated paring knife does a better job on crusty sourdough.
It's big but doesnt feel as sharp as the victorinox. It is light, both the handle and blade, but heavy enough to be quality and stamped with made in japan. The wood for the handle had some black colouration, possibly the grain but didnt look super high quality.
Worth $31? Maybe, id say $21. Not worth $40+ IMO.
Would prefer a giant victorinox serrated paring knife…
Yeah just used mine for the first time. Biggest purchase regret.
The blade flexes so much when cutting through hard crusted sourdough you end up with wonky pieces of bread. You do not want any flexing in a bread knife.
The blade is not sharp. The more pressure you put on the blade the more it flexes where it gets pretty dangerous and risk of slipping.
My 20 year old Jaimie Oliver bread knife is way better and costed a fraction of this.
I think this is designed for cutting through Japanese loaf bread which are soft and fluffy.
Have it, says on box 'do not sharpen'