Specs.

Blade: High Carbon, Stainless Steel
Hardware: None
Handle: Walnut

Description

Along with possessing a blade that is thin and flexible, the fillet knife includes a handle that is often made of stainless steel or sealed hardwood. This makes the care for the fillet knife very easy. Washing with hot soapy water will have the knife ready for use in no time at all. The fillet knife can be sharpened with most types of sharpening tools, so no extra care is required to keep it is top operating condition. Typically, the length of the blade of the fillet knife varies from six inches to eleven inches, which makes it ideal for a number of different jobs, including filleting.

The length and flexibility of the fillet knife is what makes it possible to get excellent results. As an example, the ability to fillet a fish properly involves making a clean move along the backbone of the fish, getting into the areas around the bones and being able to evenly slice the skin away from the flesh.

Because the fillet knife is both flexible and thin, the blade can easily get into places that would be impossible for a typical kitchen knife. Moving through the flesh and gently separating it from the bone and skin means there is much less effort exerted and the chances of getting some usable sections is greatly increased. The result of properly using a fillet knife is thin and evenly sliced sections that are all ready for grilling, battering and frying, or baking.