The Winter Sale is now in full swing on the Cooks Knives website. We have put together an exciting mixture of discounts, special offers and free gifts on some of our best selling products. We believe that there should be something in there for everyone.
We decided to take some of our best selling products and make them even more attractive by not only offering fantastic discounts but by also giving away a free gift with them when you purchase them during our Winter Sale. For instance, if you buy the I. O. Shen 5 Piece Magnetic Knife Block Set you will receive a Premier Natural Origins Rubberwood and Chrome 8 Bottle Wine Rack free. Even if you do not take the free gift into consideration you will still be saving £154.83 on this I.O. Shen Knife Set if you take advantage of this offer.
As well as taking an incredible £200 off the recommend retail price on the Global 7 Piece Knife Case Set you will also receive a free MinoSharp Plus Ceramic Knife Sharpener if you decide to take advantage of the special offer available in our winter sale.
We are also giving free gifts away when you purchase some of the individual knives in the Henckels Four Star range. Buy the Bread Knife and you will receive a free Utility Knife, buy the 20cm Chef’s Knife and we will give you a 23cm Sharpener absolutely free.
If it is a knife set that you are after then perhaps you may be interested in the 4 Piece Knife Set from the Robert Welch Signature range. This set includes two Cooks Knives, a Vegetable Knife and a hand-held Knife Sharpener. This set is currently available for only £85, this is £28 below its normal RRP.
There are also some fantastic discounts available on individual knives. You can save £29.40 on a Wusthof Classic 20cm Serrated Bread Knife or £22.50 on a Henckles Four Star Salmon Knife. Or you could you save a massive £65 on the Henckles Twin Fin Chef’s Knife.
Several products are currently discounted by 50% or more. Among the products currently selling at half their normal price or more are the Stellar Taiku 2 Piece Carving set, the 3 piece Santoku Set from the James Martin by Stellar range, the Richardson Sheffield Entertain 7 Piece Steak Knife Set as well as the Rockingham Forge Premier Series 4.5 inch Utility Knife.
We are still offering free UK delivery on all orders over £75. For destinations outside of the UK mainland there will be an equivalent discount.
Friday, 15 January 2010
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
Richardson Sheffield Knives and the new I O Shen 5 Piece Set now in stock
We have started to stock Richardson Sheffield Knives on the Cook Knives website. Richardson Sheffield Knives are characterised by both their highly innovative design and their use of advanced technology. Each Richardson Sheffield Knife Set has a unique, stylised and distinctive appearance.
The Gripi 5 Piece Straight Knife Block Set is the perfect illustration of the Richardson Sheffield Knives design philosophy in practise. This is the world’s first ever ‘soft touch’ knife block. It has been constructed using ‘Gripi’. It also features interchangeable colour inserts that allows you to change the colour of the knife block to suit your kitchen or your mood. The knives have a tactile soft touch handle that makes them easy to use and comfortable to hold even when wet. The set includes a Paring Knife, an All Purpose Knife, a 20cm Cooks Knife, a Bread Knife and a Carving Knife.
Another new product that we added to the website is the new I. O. Shen 5 Piece Magnetic Knife Block Set. This knife block features two extra strong magnetic strips which you can use to secure even your longest knives. It is capable of holding up to 9 knives. The set comes with a 105mm pairing knife, a 160mm Sahm Khom Slicer, a 210mm Chef’s Knife and a 270mm Bread Knife. We are selling this new I. O. Shen 5 Piece Magnetic Knife block for £199.95, an incredible £154 below the recommended retail price.
We are continually looking to increase the range of knives that we stock, when we come across a quality knife range or even a single knife we always aim to add it to our existing stock if possible. If you know a range that you think that we should stock let us know and we will see what we can do with regards to adding it our online store.
The Gripi 5 Piece Straight Knife Block Set is the perfect illustration of the Richardson Sheffield Knives design philosophy in practise. This is the world’s first ever ‘soft touch’ knife block. It has been constructed using ‘Gripi’. It also features interchangeable colour inserts that allows you to change the colour of the knife block to suit your kitchen or your mood. The knives have a tactile soft touch handle that makes them easy to use and comfortable to hold even when wet. The set includes a Paring Knife, an All Purpose Knife, a 20cm Cooks Knife, a Bread Knife and a Carving Knife.
Another new product that we added to the website is the new I. O. Shen 5 Piece Magnetic Knife Block Set. This knife block features two extra strong magnetic strips which you can use to secure even your longest knives. It is capable of holding up to 9 knives. The set comes with a 105mm pairing knife, a 160mm Sahm Khom Slicer, a 210mm Chef’s Knife and a 270mm Bread Knife. We are selling this new I. O. Shen 5 Piece Magnetic Knife block for £199.95, an incredible £154 below the recommended retail price.
We are continually looking to increase the range of knives that we stock, when we come across a quality knife range or even a single knife we always aim to add it to our existing stock if possible. If you know a range that you think that we should stock let us know and we will see what we can do with regards to adding it our online store.
Thursday, 10 September 2009
Jamie Olivers Latest Adventure
Jamie Oliver is back on our TV screens. This time he is touring the USA generally having a good time and hanging out with interesting folk!
If you watch carefully you will see Jamie is using IO Shen knives. I spotted their distinctive handle design when he was chopping Red Onions for the cowboys - if you spot other scenes please let us know.
I'm told by a very reliable source that Jamie is a big personal fan of IO Shen. He doesn’t get paid to use them, its not one of his licensed products but he uses them - not only on TV but in his latest cookbooks.
We will soon be offering a great gift for Jamie fans - 3 IO Shen knives for under £100 - available from mid November.
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
UK Exclusive Global Knife
Global G-64 Knife
A UK exclusive for Cooks Knives. The Global G-64 is part of the G Series of classic large knives used for general food preparation and also for the more adventurous chef.
Global knives are made from the finest high carbon stainless steel available for producing professional quality kitchen knives. Yoshikin uses its own proprietary stainless steel called CROMOVA 18 Stainless Steel and this steel was designed exclusively for Global knives. This steel is hard enough for Global knives to hold the steep, acute cutting edge and keep their edge for a long time,but soft enough so that it is not too difficult to sharpen them. The CRO in CROMOVA 18 stands for chromium and the 18 is the percentage of chromium in the steel. The high percentage of chromium contributes to Global's excellent stain resistance.
Global knives are the most popular professional kitchen knives in the UK.
They have been for many years and whilst other manufacturers such as Wusthof and Henckels offer great alternatives Globals’ quality and distinctive design will keep them as the market leader for many years to come….
Age verification
Working with NetIDMe we have successfully trialled and integrated an online age verification system with our website. We are now in a position to age verify any person purchasing knives from our site. The process is seamless and secure ensuring the privacy of our customers without having any negative impact on our sales.
The UK government have been talking about age verification and online sales of age restricted goods and services for many years. The Gambling Act 2006 was brought in to ensure that online gambling companies could be made accountable for any under-age use of their services. The age verification checks needed to be independent of the payment method and so a number of online age verification services became available whereby the details of the customer could be checked against various publically accessible databases, such as the electoral roll.
The pressure is now on for all online retailers of age restricted goods (such as knives, alcohol, tobacco, DVDs and games) to take active steps to ensure that these products are not sold to under age persons. The Online Purchasing of Goods and Services (Age Verification) Bill has had readings in the House of Commons (by Margaret Moran) and House of Lords (by Baroness Massey of Darwen) and has received generally positive comments in both. However, the general consensus is that the existing laws that govern sales of age restricted goods should be enforced online in the same way as they are offline – the retailer needs to take reasonable steps to ensure that they are not selling goods or services to under age people and there is no need to bring in new laws to govern online sales separately. No mean feat as it’s not possible to physically check the photo ID of an online customer in the same way that a high street merchant can!
A few small modifications needed to be made to our online checkout process to ensure that we were gathering customer data in as accurate a format as possible, ready for the age verification process. In this way we can perform the checks and store the customer’s account and delivery details without lengthening the checkout process in any way.
So far we’ve had great results – where an age verification check has failed we’ve been able to follow up with the customer and either correct the details they entered or get additional information so we can perform a further check. For instance, a buyer for a hotel was using a company credit card and so the billing address given was the hotel rather than the purchaser’s home address – once we had the buyer’s details we could confirm that he was over 18. Other customers had failed the checks as they had recently moved – once previous address details were collected we could perform further checks. We’ve also had a couple of orders where the customer failed the age verification check and they haven’t responded to our requests for further information. We’ve placed the orders on hold until they get back to us, but they may have been fraudulent orders in the first place (which we would have picked up on and rejected when we came to process payment) or orders from minors who decided not to try their luck any further. Either way, we’re happy!
So, as more pressure is placed on the online retailer to ensure that they are doing everything possible to stop sales of age restricted goods to minors, we hope that taking the initiative and putting these checks in place will mark us out as a knife retailer with a sense of social responsibility.
The UK government have been talking about age verification and online sales of age restricted goods and services for many years. The Gambling Act 2006 was brought in to ensure that online gambling companies could be made accountable for any under-age use of their services. The age verification checks needed to be independent of the payment method and so a number of online age verification services became available whereby the details of the customer could be checked against various publically accessible databases, such as the electoral roll.
The pressure is now on for all online retailers of age restricted goods (such as knives, alcohol, tobacco, DVDs and games) to take active steps to ensure that these products are not sold to under age persons. The Online Purchasing of Goods and Services (Age Verification) Bill has had readings in the House of Commons (by Margaret Moran) and House of Lords (by Baroness Massey of Darwen) and has received generally positive comments in both. However, the general consensus is that the existing laws that govern sales of age restricted goods should be enforced online in the same way as they are offline – the retailer needs to take reasonable steps to ensure that they are not selling goods or services to under age people and there is no need to bring in new laws to govern online sales separately. No mean feat as it’s not possible to physically check the photo ID of an online customer in the same way that a high street merchant can!
A few small modifications needed to be made to our online checkout process to ensure that we were gathering customer data in as accurate a format as possible, ready for the age verification process. In this way we can perform the checks and store the customer’s account and delivery details without lengthening the checkout process in any way.
So far we’ve had great results – where an age verification check has failed we’ve been able to follow up with the customer and either correct the details they entered or get additional information so we can perform a further check. For instance, a buyer for a hotel was using a company credit card and so the billing address given was the hotel rather than the purchaser’s home address – once we had the buyer’s details we could confirm that he was over 18. Other customers had failed the checks as they had recently moved – once previous address details were collected we could perform further checks. We’ve also had a couple of orders where the customer failed the age verification check and they haven’t responded to our requests for further information. We’ve placed the orders on hold until they get back to us, but they may have been fraudulent orders in the first place (which we would have picked up on and rejected when we came to process payment) or orders from minors who decided not to try their luck any further. Either way, we’re happy!
So, as more pressure is placed on the online retailer to ensure that they are doing everything possible to stop sales of age restricted goods to minors, we hope that taking the initiative and putting these checks in place will mark us out as a knife retailer with a sense of social responsibility.
Friday, 27 February 2009
Henckels Twin Fin Knives
A new range of knives from Henckels. Perfect function, attractive and innovative design. Twin Fin stands for a previously unknown level of user comfort. The innovative, asymmetric handle makes cutting easy as well as safe, whichever way you hold the knife. A seamless solid metal design and multi-purpose blades allow a much broader range of application than ordinary blades. Twin Fin... The Joy Of Cutting.
- Edge - Special hand honed cutting edge for scalpel like sharpness.
- Blade - Friodur® ice-hardened blades for superior edge retention.
- Handle - Perfect grip regardless of cutting style. Anti-slip grooves.
Thursday, 23 October 2008
Heston Blumenthal's Favourite Knives
Celebrity Chef Claims Luxury Japanese Knives as his Favourite
Celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal, star of BBC2's 'In Search of Perfection', columnist for the Sunday Times and owner of the Michelin 3 Star restaurant, the Fat Duck Bray, officially endorses the Tojiro Senkou knife range, after he found them to be his favourite knives:
“After trying many knives over the years, Heston Blumenthal now uses the Japanese 'Tojiro Senkou' range. These precision-made knives offer perfect balance with extreme sharpness. The knives are the result of several centuries of Samurai sword-making tradition and expertise with up to 63 layers of steel, which has been folded and hammered to create very strong, yet flexible blades with excellent edge retention.” Heston Blumenthal ,Fat Duck Restaurant
They have also featured on his appearance on Five's motoring show, Fifth Gear. The new Tojiro Senkou range of Japanese kitchen knives and accessories makes centuries of Samurai sword making tradition and expertise accessible to everyone. After testing under laboratory conditions, Tojiro Senkou knives have been found to be one of the sharpest kitchen knife ranges on the market.The specialist manufacturing techniques were developed for the feared Samurai warrior caste, which needed a weapon that would be reliably sharp, strong and sufficiently durable to defend them against repeated danger. Samurai warriors often gave names to their swords and considered them to be the ‘soul’ of their warriorship, so style and character are also key design features.The Mica handle of Tojiro Senkou knives incorporates a naming plate to allow each knife to be personalized."Favourite Kitchen Gadget
My Japanese Tojiro Senkou knives (pictured).They have 50-odd layers of steel and are beautifully weighted.”. Heston Blumenthal ,Telegraph Magazine October 2008
Damascus Steel
The technique of laminating steel was first seen in Damascus, Syria around 400AD. It was later adopted by Japanese sword smiths who would fold and hammer many layers of steel into their blades.
A perfect blade needs to be hard, but also strong and flexible. In many respects, these features can be contradictory. The cutting edge on Tojiro Senkou knives is made of extremely hard steel (Rockwell 60° - 62°). This allows the knives to be sharpened to a more acute angle and to emerge from the factory razor sharp. If the knives were made solely of this hard steel, however, they would be inflexible and brittle, breaking easily if dropped or misused.
The solution lies in using the process of lamination to cushion the super hard inner core by adding outer layers of softer stainless steel. This results in a knife as flexible and strong as any single layer knife, but with a cutting edge that is harder, sharper and last longer.
Tojiro knives are made of 37 or 63 layers of steel. (Deba knife with 19 layers) This results in the beautiful Damascene effect - a pattern formed by the many layers of steel, which is known in Japanese as "kasumi-nagashi" or "floating mist.
Sharpening Guide for Tojiro Senkou Knives
The cutting edge on the Senkou knives is made of extremely hard steel (Rockwell 60º - 62º). This allows sharpening to a more acute angle and the knives emerge from the factory razor sharp. For safety and best performance Tojiro Senkou knives should be kept sharp at all times.Cooks Knives offers one of the widest ranges of sharpeners on the internet. For professional results we recommend sharpening your Tojiro knives on a whetstone around once or twice a month. After soaking the whetstone as directed, tilt the blade edge at an angle of 10° - 20° to the stone and draw the blade up and down the length of the stone. Whilst sharpening, do not flush away the thick liquid which will form from your whetstone, as this contains the sharpening agent.
After sharpening, your Tojiro knives should be washed in hot water and then dried thoroughly.
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