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Dexter Sani-Safe Knives
The Dexter Sani-Safe Series was built to be both durable and sanitary. The textured polypropylene handle is slip resistant, easy to clean, and can tolerate both high and low temperatures. An impervious blade-to-handle seal provides the utmost in sanitary qualification. Each stainless steel blade has an individually ground and honed edge, making these suitable for both home and commercial use. Items marked with the NSF logo are NSF Certified. Made in USA.
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Dexter-Russell Sani-Safe 10-inch Butcher Knife
A 10-inch butcher knife is the workhorse of a meat room, heavy enough to break a pork loin into chops, portion a beef round or trim a whole brisket in long strokes. Dexter-Russell’s Sani-Safe version has a curved blade that rises to a pointed tip for piercing into a cut, and its length handles large primals that a chef’s knife cannot cross.Dexter chose a stainless, high-alloy steel for this line so the edge holds through a shift and comes back quickly on a steel. Butchers and barbecue cooks both buy this size from us, and it draws more search traffic than any other Dexter butcher knife on our site.
8-inch or 10-inch?The Sani-Safe 8-inch Butcher Knife is easier to handle on smaller cuts and on a home cutting board. For slicing steaks from a boneless primal in a single pass, the Sani-Safe 10-inch Scimitar has a more sweeping curve. Learn More$42.99 -
Dexter-Russell Sani-Safe 8-inch Butcher Knife
Not every kitchen has room for a 10-inch butcher knife. The 8-inch Sani-Safe keeps the same curved blade and pointed tip, which Dexter-Russell designs to pierce meat cleanly, in a size that fits a standard cutting board and a home knife drawer.It cuts pork shoulders into stew meat and trims beef roasts, and it handles the general meat cutting that a chef’s knife does awkwardly. The blade takes a fresh edge readily on a steel and does not stain from blood or brine. The handle is the same Sani-Safe grip found in commercial meat departments, so a home cook gets the knife a professional butcher would use. Dexter-Russell has made knives in Southbridge, Massachusetts since 1818, and it builds this one there.
Choosing a Sani-Safe Butcher KnifeFor larger primals and long slicing strokes, step up to the Sani-Safe 10-inch Butcher Knife. For narrow, stiff work through joints, the Sani-Safe 8-inch Breaking Knife is the closer match. Learn More$35.99 -
Dexter-Russell Sani-Safe 12-inch Fish Splitter
A fish splitter is a heavy, stiff knife for the jobs a fillet knife should never do, and it is built for splitting where a cimeter is built for slicing. Dexter-Russell’s Sani-Safe 12-inch splitter is built to take heads off large fish, cut bait, make chum and break down big fish before they are filleted. The H in the model number marks its heavier blade, which gives the backbone to drive through bone and cartilage. The blade is built to absorb the shock of heavy splitting without chipping, and it offers significantly more impact resistance than a Victorinox Fibrox, though it is slightly heavier.On a large tuna or halibut, the splitter roughs out the work at the cleaning table, and a flexible fillet knife takes over for the meat. It is also a capable bait knife on a party boat, where a long, sturdy blade makes short work of a pile of bunker or mackerel. It splits frozen bait as readily as fresh and takes the head off a large salmon as easily as a tuna. For delicate trout or small panfish it is too much knife, and a fillet knife is the better choice. Dexter honed and ground the blade at its Southbridge, Massachusetts plant. It suits commercial fishmongers, high-volume seafood processing plants and offshore charter captains who need a tool that can take a beating. Professional processors like the way the handle stays in the hand even when it is covered in slime, and the steel returns to a keen edge with a few strokes on a honing steel.
Pairing a Splitter with a Fillet KnifeOnce the fish is broken down, a Sani-Safe 8-inch Wide Fillet Knife or a Dextreme Dual Edge 10-inch Stiff Fillet Knife handles the fillets. Learn More$56.99
