** This Japanese Knife Giveaway was originally in this Baked Chicken Breast recipe post. As the giveaway has closed, the details of the giveaway have been moved to a separate post to avoid cluttering the recipe post with irrelevant details. Entries for the giveaway are in the Baked Chicken Breast recipe. **
Handcrafted Japanese Knife Giveaway!
{Update: Giveaway has closed, the winner is Monica O’Sullivan!}
The last time we asked my mother to bring a kitchenware item back from Japan, it was “just” a Yakitori charcoal grilling station. “It’s only 10 kg (20 lb)!” my sister cajoled. “C’mon mum!”
We were only joking. Though perhaps not excessively heavy, it’s about 1 m / 3 feet long and given she was also manhandling her ski gear, we didn’t actually think she would lug one back for us.
But she did. Boy was she peeved when my sister, brother and I burst into peals of laughter when we saw that she actually brought one back for us! (In our defence, we have made a great effort to have regular Yakitori gatherings since then, during which we always relive the story, sniggering mightily as we do so).
This time, my Japanese kitchenware item request was a little smaller. Though still a bit disgruntled (“You were just here! Why didn’t you get it yourself!!!”, my mother messaged grumpily), bringing back a Japanese hand crafted knife to give away for my readers was a much easier task! 😂
I had hoped to incorporate this giveaway into a relevant recipe – think chopped salad or the like – but patience has never been my biggest virtue and thus it shall reside in a totally irrelevant recipe, one that doesn’t even use a knife at all.
A great knife is your greatest asset in the kitchen. A sharper knife does not mean greater risk of cutting yourself, it means less risk because you don’t need to worry about slippage. If I had $500 to spend on a kitchen item, it would be on one great knife. And that’s what I’m giving away today – a beautiful, Japanese, handcrafted knife and a stone sharpener from my favourite knife shop in Tokyo. Scroll down to enter! {Update: Giveaway has closed, the winner is Monica O’Sullivan!} And here’s a little preview of how sharp the knife is. 🙂
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Thank you Nagi! Love your recipes and ordered your Dinner book. You make my live easy and make delicious dinners on my table possible after long hours at work. Thank you from all my family❤️ I would like to get the knife, if it is possible.
Kendra from Champaign, il USA.
Ooh what a lovely sharp knife! 🤪 I’d love to win!!
Cochrane, Alberta Canada
Love and use your recipes daily 💕
Thank you! Oh love to read and see posts about Dozer 🥰
I’m a slow slicer and dicer. Hoping a good knife would speed up my preparation abilities. Thanks for helping prepare some amazing family meals.
I love cooking and baking I’m very protective of my knives, lol
That knife is gorgeous and I bet it handles like a dream.
I love all your recipes and have made many of them. I just adore Dover. I had a Golden and he is missed very much. He passed away at the age of 16.
Would love to be the winner of your giveaway. I want this Knife 🙂
Oh how I love a good knife! But that being said, I have never had a Japanese knife of the quality you are speaking of! What a treat that would be! I am excited to enter my name for the drawing, crossing both fingers, legs and toes for luck! Thank you Nagi for the opportunity to enter!
My heart ❤️ almost dropped when I heard of your cookery book or knife offer as I am in our little kitchen everyday trying new recipes out with very old crappy equipment I might add! All the best to u and so many thx for your wonderful recipes. My favourite is Kung Pao! Xxx
love to have this new knife thank you
Hi I’m Paul from Mt Eliza Victoria, Australia. I would love to win your book and knife… my wife and I just gave a copy of your book to her father for his birthday!
I need a good knife! It will make prep so much easier!
Elgin, IL
Elgin, Illinois
Would love to have a really good knife! I’m 77 years old & my 2 sons are always telling me that I should get a good one! Love your emails & Dozer!
I would love to win this knife!
San Diego, California
I would like very much to win the knife please. From England UK