Varusteleka Skrama 200 Chef's Knife, Stainless Steel

Knife before the installation of the handle

Knife before the installation of the handle. View from above with the tang width visible.

Varusteleka

Varusteleka Skrama 200 Chef's Knife, Stainless Steel

Name: Varusteleka Skrama 200 Chef's Knife, Stainless Steel
Brand: Varusteleka
SKU: 69730
Price: 91.00 CHF
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Technical details and instructions

Total length: 350 mm (13.8")
Weight: c. 175 g (6.17 oz)
Blade: cutting edge length 195 mm (7.7"), width at the widest 57 mm (2.24"), thickness 2,2-2,0 mm (0.087"-0.079")
Edge: 2-degree blade angle with a 25-degree secondary bevel
Steel: X50CrMoV15 stainless steel
Handle: Molded thermo-plastic elastomer (TPE), rough texture, excellent grip

X50CrMoV15 stainless steel blade

Unlike the regular Varusteleka knives, this Chef’s knife is made from X50CrMoV15 stainless steel. X50CrMoV15 is an excellent kitchen knife steel, combining corrosion resistance, toughness, and ease of sharpening.

The blade thickness is 2,2-2,0 mm, so the blade is a lot thinner than the regular Skramas and also thinner than the previous chef’s knife we made. Like everyone who has tried to make sushi with an axe knows, it is a lot easier to slice and dice things with a thinner blade.

Synthetic handle

This kitchen tool comes with a similar handle as Skrama 200, simply because it is a damn good handle. Nice molded thermo-plastic elastomer with a very good grip. It won’t slip off your fingers even when wet.

Care

Stainless steel and the synthetic handle make knife care a lot easier. It is worth remembering though that no knife was made for washing in the dishwasher or shoving it in the sink to grind against wet and dirty dishes. Washing all the knives by hand and drying them properly is still the best option.

Description

A very lightweight, nicely balanced, and extremely durable kitchen knife. Made in Kauhava, Finland of course.

The Chef’s Skrama is now made from stainless X50CrMoV15 steel – built to withstand the fiercest kitchen battles!

Why a Chef’s Skrama?

It might not be as pretty as the super-expensive Japanese knives that you never dare to use – but it isn't meant to be. It is a proper tool that works very well as a general-purpose kitchen knife – slicing, dicing, slashing, and cutting all sorts of edible stuff. Not people though, good guys don’t eat people. When you get one of these, you can just donate all those remotely knife-like implements of yours to a friend that cooks crappier food.

A brief history of Chef’s Skrama

This is the knife whose actionheroesque toughness destroyed the machinery, shoveled a few tons of crap in the fan, and drove some folks to expand their craft beer hobby into a bulk vodka hobby.

The first stainless steel iteration of this knife was supposed to hit the shelves already in 2021 but the toughness of the steel and the size of the knife was such a mighty combination that it caused our multiverse to implode. So it was delayed. And delayed. And delayed until we thought that we had hallucinated the whole thing. But good things are well worth the wait: finally, the first N690-steel knives arrived and were promptly sold out every time a batch was delivered to our warehouse. With the new material, we are now ready to face the next selling frenzy or some yet unimaginable new catastrophe.