I.O.Shen Mizu Serrated Slicer 36cm

Mizu Scalloped Slicer

At 360mm this is a long knife. It's designed for all sorts of uses, from slicing large cuts of meat to large breads and cakes. Two UK-based barbeque experts - Marcus Bawdon, the editor of a magazine about barbeque cooking, and barbeque catering specialist DrSweetSmoke - both helped with design input with the knife.

The result is a knife that cuts easily through barbeque 'bark' on the outside of the meat (eg crisp pork crackling) thanks to its serrated edge, and with just the right amount of flex in the blade to make single stroke slicing easy.

PS 'mizu' means 'water' in Japanese.

The IO Shen design team, who are based in the UK, go to great lengths to make sure that their new models are designed with professional chefs in mind. That way, even if you're 'only' an enthusiastic home chef, you know that the IO Shen range will do what they need to do, and just keep going, plus are designed in a way that they are comfortable to use, even when a huge amount of chopping and cutting is required.
A focus for some of these knives is for use at the barbeque, something that is gaining in popularity in the UK, and of course here in Australia is pretty much a part of our national identity. So these barbeque knives should feel right at home here.