Kikuichi Carbon Elite 3-Piece Professional Starter Set

Kikuichi Carbon Elite 3-Piece Professional Starter Set

The Kikuichi Carbon Elite 3-Piece Professional Starter Set gives culinary students and working cooks a carbon steel chef’s knife, the honing steel to maintain it and a bag to carry it, chosen to work together from the first day. It is a practical first step into carbon steel for cooks who want a sharper, more easily restored edge than a typical stainless knife provides.

What Each Piece Does

• Kikuichi Carbon Elite 210mm Gyuto: The Japanese chef’s knife handles most prep on the station, from dicing vegetables to trimming and slicing proteins. Its SK-4 high-carbon steel takes a keen edge and is easy to restore on a waterstone, and its thin profile moves through dense produce without wedging.


• F. Dick EuroCut 12-inch Round Regular Cut Steel: A few light strokes before and during service realign the edge as it rolls with use, so the gyuto cuts cleanly for longer between sharpenings.


• Knife Merchant 8-Slot Knife Bag: Separate slots keep the edges from contacting one another in transit, with room to add knives as the kit grows.

Building the Kit

A parer is the most common second knife. The Kikuichi Carbon Elite 120mm Parer and the Carbon Elite 150mm Petty match the gyuto in steel and handle. For a complete collection, see the Kikuichi Carbon Elite 7-Piece Knife Block Set.