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18cm Santoku Knife FRF 9009

Rockingham Forge

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<p>The Santoku Knife is a Japanese variant of the chef's knife. The Santoku, which translates to "three ways," is a flexible knife that can be used for slicing, dicing, and mincing, among other things. This 18cm Santoku Knife, which easily slices through vegetables, fruit, and meat, was originally crafted and invented for Japanese homemakers who wanted to recreate Western-style cuisine in their kitchen (not to be confused with the other Western-style Japanese knife - Gyoto).</p> <p>Since Japanese chefs usually used forward and backward cutting strokes or a straight

Rockingham Forge's own words, read from their page.

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What makes it worth buying

warranty 50 year guarantee against manufacturers defects

Where this comes from

The part other shops don't tell you. Three separate questions, kept separate on purpose, each with its source.

UK company
Registered at Companies House as I.Grunwerg Limited, number 00541251. Checked 2026-08-29.
Means the business is a British legal entity, not a British-sounding name owned elsewhere. It says nothing about where anything is made.
UK operations
Stated by the company: "Silversteel Manor, Carrwood Rd, Carrwood Ind. Est. Chesterfield S41 9QB" Source.
Means people employed here, or premises they actually work from. We keep this separate from the company badge because a registered office can be an accountant's spare room, and a company can be registered in Britain while everything it does happens somewhere else. Where we have not looked, we say so rather than assuming.
British-owned
No majority shareholding traced outside the UK. Companies House.
Read from the register of people with significant control, following the chain of holding companies. It does not gate anything: a firm can be made here and owned elsewhere, and that is worth telling you rather than hiding.
Designed in the UK, made abroad
The maker states: Our products were manufactured in the UK until the late 1970's. These days our central business and design team are still based in the Sheffield area, with manufacture undertaken by trusted partners overseas. Source. Their words, not ours; we have not independently verified it.
This is about the individual product, not the company. A British firm can sell things made abroad, which is normal and not a criticism. We would rather tell you which is which than average them into a score.

Technical details

blade profile	santoku
blade length mm	180

Taken from the maker's own page. Anything they don't state is left out rather than guessed, which is why this table is shorter than you might expect.