Sabatier Idéal 2½" Paring Knife

Sabatier Idéal is our flagship line of European kitchen knives, perfect if you're looking for familiar styling paired with a relatively hard blade steel and fine balance. Sabatier's traditional French construction makes these similar in appearance to German knives, but the petite handles and narrower blades provide for agility and comfort. Materials & Design Sabatier Idéal blades are forged from N4116 Nitro+, a nitrogen-infused stainless steel with a hardness of HRC 58-60. This relatively hard, highly corrosion-resistant medium offers a middle ground between hard but brittle Japanese steels and tough but soft German steels. As such, Sabatier knives can hold a fine edge through moderately hard use and can also be easily maintained with a honing steel between sharpenings. The handle is made from black POM (polyacetal), valued for its hardness, rigidity, and dimensional stability. The black scales are secured to the full-tang blade with three stainless steel rivets.