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A female industrial designer Fumie Shibata, who input female perspective to kitchen knives, designs this whole line. The handle is made with a semi-charcoaled chestnut wood handle to make it very sanitary and corrosion-resistant.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"tadafusa-hocho-kobo-bread-knife-230mm-hk-1","title":"Tadafusa Hocho Kobo HK-1 Bread Knife 230mm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Shape -\u003c\/b\u003eI like cutting bread with my Gyuto because it doesn’t make a lot of crumbs. But sometimes you need serrations to cut super crusty sourdough loaves or freshly baked French baguettes. This is really just for cutting bread, not your tomatoes! That’s what your other knives are for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout Tadafusa Hocho Kobo -\u003c\/b\u003eTadafusa knives are manufactured in the city of Sanjo, part of the Niigata prefecture. 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