Chopping Champs

The GF-100 is a Global chopping knife with an extra thick 4mm blade. This makes the knives somewhat heavier and thicker than traditional Global knives. The shape of the knife is specifically intended for chopping vegetables.

The GF-100 has a long flat blade designed to come into full contact with the cutting board with each stroke and create clean cuts of each vegetable. The deep blade will make easy work of heavy vegetables such as sweet potato, squashes and beetroot. With a fully forged blade, the GF-100 is more suited to the professional kitchen and chefs more accommodated to the weight and feel of a German knife.

We recommend the GF-100 for professional chefs who do a lot of chopping in the kitchen.

As a fully forged knife, the GF-100 is made from one piece of steel from the knife point to the end of the handle and contains a full tang. It feels substantially heavier and has a lot more presence than that of other knives, which is great if you think Global knives are a bit too light.

The G-29 is another fairly specialist knife in the G series line. The knife is suited for work with medium sized fish and is a bit of a cross over between a cook's knife and a chopper. It is also perfectly suited for cutting up chicken, turkey or other poultry that may be cooked whole.

The deep blade is designed to help the knife cut through bones to remove fish heads, tails and fins as the knife can be swung down onto a chopping board. Useful for preparing fish if you like to buy your fish whole, this knife will also create deep slicers to serve up.

The GS-4 is Global's small version of the Deba Bocho knife, a small version of the G-7 Deba, a Japanese style kitchen knife used to cut mostly fish but also meat. This knife has the traditional Japanese one sided grind so is not suitable for Western style preparation. It can be used for cutting, filleting and slicing smaller fish. A perfect small utility knife for Japanese chefs who use a larger Sashimi or Deba knife and need something for lighter work.

The Global G-7 Oriental Deba is a traditional Japanese knife with a one sided grind and it is essentially the G-4 with a single bevel. It is a short but heavy knife, made to cut up whole fish. The blade is squat and has some weight to it, signifying its strength in chopping.

The weight of the deba knife allows it to cut through fish bones to sever the head and tail from the fish and this is what it is designed to do. Using the tip of the blade you can also fillet fish, Japanese style. As a traditional Japanese knife we do not recommend purchasing this knife, if you are looking for a general purpose cook's knife. If you like the shape of the knife but wish to use the blade for more European style cooking, we recommend the G-4.

The oriental Deba also comes in a smaller size as the GS-4.

The GF-24 will hold your joints of meat securely in place while you carve your pieces of meat. The two tines on the end can be inserted into the meat to check that the meat is cooked as the juices run clear.

Global provide two carving forks in their range, the GF-24 and the G-13. Aesthetically the GF-24 is quite pleasing to look at. Smooth rounded lines finishing in two sharp points. The GF-24 is often preferred to the standard G-13 carving fork. The main advantage of the GF-24 is that it fits in a drawer more easily as it lies flat! The G-13 prongs stick up meaning it often catches the roof of the drawer.

Consider paring with a G-3 carving knife for those perfect Sunday roasts.

The GF-27 is a specialist knife blade for butchering raw meat. The curved thin blade is designed to slice through joints in raw carcasses. The shape of the knife with its right angle curve in the blade is made to slash across flesh and so separate the meat from bones, ligaments and other parts that are not wanted. It is a specialist knife and does not work well for cutting or chopping vegetables and other regular kitchen work. The GF-27 has a bolster, which gives it an edge over the bolster-less G-28. This is particularly useful when the slime from raw meat can make the knife handle slipped, just having the bolster there gives you a little more drip, control and confidence when using the knife.

The butcher knife shape comes from a very old design. In the wild these knives were used for a huge variety of tasks, for cutting up food, skinning animals and self defense.

The GF-31 is essentially the fully forged version of the more popular G-21 Boning knife. Both knives have long thin blades which make the knife good for getting between the skin and the meat of the fish. The main difference between the two knives is the addition of a bolster. The bolster gives a lot of extra protection by preventing hands from slipping forward onto the blade. The main drawback is the fact that this blade is not as flexible. There is a trade off between the strength of the fully forged blade and have a flexible knife. This makes the knife better for more regular use, in professional kitchen settings, where repeated use of the boning knife is needed.

The GF-36 is the fully forged version of Global’s extremely popular G-5. The shape of the knife is specifically intended for chopping vegetables. The GF-36 has a long flat blade designed to come into full contact with the cutting board with each stroke and create clean cuts of each vegetable. The deep blade will make easy work of heavy vegetables such as sweet potato, squashes and beetroot. The front of the blade has a slight upward curve for slicing and dicing vegetables.

We recommend the GF-36 for professional chefs who do a lot of chopping in the kitchen. This knife will take a lot of punishment and is a lot more robust than its cousin the G-5.

As a fully forged knife the GF-36 has the same blade as the G-5, but is made from one piece of steel from the knife point to the end of the handle and contains a full tang. It feels substantially heavier and has a lot more presence that the G-5, which is great if you think Global knives are a bit too light.

The GF-40 is listed as a boning knife, but the profile of the blade makes it suitable for a variety of kitchen tasks because of the small hilt and elongated upturn in the blade. Being fully forged it is strong enough for most kitchen tasks and can be equally used as a universal knife. This knife can be used as a small slicer, a boning knife or for cutting up small bits of meat, fruit or vegetables. It has a nice big comfortable handle with a bolster for extra protection. The protection of the bolster makes the knife suitable for cutting raw meat as it gives you a bit more grip on the handle.