Shun
“Shun” (shoon) is a concept at the very heart of Japanese cuisine. In Japanese, shun is the word used to describe local, seasonal food when it is at the peak of its flavor and freshness—at the peak of its perfection.
Shun Cutlery is known for its exquisite beauty and ultra-premium performance. Yet as beautiful as Shun is on the outside, and as beautifully as it performs in your kitchen, its true beauty may be in what you don’t see.
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Handcrafted in Japan
Shun is dedicated to maintaining this ancient tradition by continuing to handcraft each knife in our Seki City facilities. Each piece of this fine kitchen cutlery takes at least 100 individual steps to complete. While we maintain these ancient traditions of handcrafted quality, we also take advantage of thoroughly modern, premium materials and state-of-the-art technology to provide that traditional quality to millions of professional chefs and avid home cooks throughout the world.
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Knife Steel is Essential
Heat treatment—an invisible, yet vital, process. This exacting process is fundamentally important to ensuring that your Shun provides lasting value. In heat treatment, the metal is heated and cooled to change its microstructure, bringing out its very best properties. With precise heat treatment, blade steel becomes finer grained, making it stronger and harder so blades can be thinner, sharper, and give you a longer-lasting edge. Shun’s experts are, quite simply, masters of the heat treatment process.
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Quality and Performance
Shun is the exact moment when a fruit has reached its ideal ripeness, when a vegetable is at its very best, or when meat is at its most flavorful. Home cooks and professional chefs alike celebrate shun in their kitchens, eagerly awaiting each season’s bounty and serving every ingredient in its proper time.
Shun Cutlery proudly takes its name from this Japanese culinary tradition of eating the freshest food at the perfect moment. We took this name to honor this seasonal, mindful way of eating and as a mark of our dedication to making kitchen cutlery that is always at the peak of its perfection, too.
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Ramin A. –
very disappointed long term shun classic and premier ownerThe only part that seems to match the quality of my shun premier knives is the handle. The metal part is too flexible and I suspect won’t last that long.Also, contrary to my other shuns, these are not made in Japan.
Victor Wolansky –
Great designIt’s a great carving fork. Very nice design and handle.
Michael –
Nice but overpriced.I like this fork and really wanted it as a part of my carving set but I feel this piece is over priced compared to the other Premier pieces. It’s big enough to do the job but smaller than I expected. As far as I can tell it is not damascus steel in spite of the description. The handle also seems to be on crooked as the butt is rotated visibly compared to the fork.
Jon A. Hoeschen –
Good sturdy fork.An excellent addition to my cutlery tools. This fork was sturdier then I expected, I was impressed.
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Great productLove it
Andy F –
Four StarsVery nice but expensive for what it is
John E. Reynolds II –
OkOk
Rodrigo D Piedrabuena –
I recommend itEverything was as expected, i recommend this seller.
Andrew C Logan –
Five StarsGood
Shawn R. Windrem –
Excellent quality and rounds out my collection!I had another fork that was high end as well, but did not match. This fork is a perfect match!