The Guide to Global Knives

The Guide to Global Knives

Global knives are known for being the highest quality knives in the world. Manufactured by Japanese Komin Yamada in 1985, they only became a quality standard around the world for a few years.

At first they were only sold in Japan, and then they were introduced global g2 to the European market. This happened in 1988 at the Frankfurt Fair and only 12 items were offered to the customer that year.

They were all made from stainless steel and Komin Yamada believes that no other company had such high quality products at the time. They were made in the same way as samurai swords - each knife is weighed and checked to ensure it has the perfect balance and weight to be comfortable to hold.

At the moment "Global Brand" knives offer over 100 different products, have 35 companies that are their distributors and are sold in 35 countries around the world.

There are basically four series of Global knives - G, GS, GF and GSF series and here you will learn about the basic characteristics of each of them.

G series

The G Series includes many different products - slicer, chef, carving knife, oriental chef, vegetable, oriental DEBA, roast slicer, bread knife - 20cm, 22cm, 24cm, 27cm, ham/salmon knife, meat chopper, carving fork, flexible knives for fillet of different sizes - 16 cm, 21 cm and 27 cm, butcher - 18 cm, meat/fish knife - 21 cm, Chinese cleaver - 2.2 mm and 4 mm, long slicer - 30 cm and 35 cm and some special knives - YANAGI sashimi - 25 cm and 30 cm and TAKO sashimi - 30 cm.

All knives have a special number and there is a photo that shows you exactly what the knife looks like.

GS series

The GS series includes 19 small knives. The largest of them is only 16 cm long and is used to make sandwiches. These items are used as slicers, chef's knives, paring knives, peeling, peeling, tomato, cheese, fish/poultry.

All in all, the knives in this series are used for more delicate work, when you have to be very careful if you want to achieve great results in the kitchen. Some knives are used to decorate food, so they are very small and extremely precise.

While the knives in the G series can be used by both professional chefs and home cooks, the knives in the GF series are specially made for professional chefs. They are almost the same as the G-series knives, but they are used for heavy-duty tasks - for example there are butcher and boning knives. There are 11 items in this series and they are larger than the G and GS series.

GSF series

Knives of the GSF series are used as a supplement to those of the G and GF series. There are 11 small size products, mainly used for peeling. There is a straight paring knife and a curved paring knife. There are also three large handle peeling knives - the first is a 6cm straight knife, the second is an 8cm straight knife and the last is an 8cm curved knife.

Recommended especially for professionals

Also these knives are mainly recommended for professional chefs and you need to have special knowledge to distinguish which knife is used for which purpose. They have a special number starting with "GSF" followed by the number of the product.

If you go through your search engine and compare prices you will see that the G series knives can be found for £60-80. In addition, knives from the GF series range in value from 85 pounds to 135 pounds.

All knives in the GS series have almost the same price - 57 pounds. profimesser The most expensive knife in this series is the Santoku knife, which is worth £60. It can be used for three different purposes - slicing, chopping and dicing. It's a round knife.

You can find knives from the GSF series with special discounts - the price without the discount is 50 - 80 pounds, with the discount you save up to 20 pounds, which is an excellent price for such a quality product.