How good are Sabatier knives? Are they used by professional cooks?
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How good are Sabatier knives? Are they used by professional cooks?
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Sabatier is a well-known French brand in the cutlery world. This brand has become known for producing highly durable knives made with carbon steel . Being made with such a piece of material, knives under the Sabatier brand tend to be very sturdy and sharp-edged.
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Let’s tackle the second part of your question first, since it’s easier for me to answer:
This professional cook uses a Sabatier Chef’s knife at work on a daily basis. Have been for seven-ish years.
A carbon steel K Sabatier, to be more precise. It is my pride and joy. Some of my colleagues have nicknamed it Excalibur at times …
Here’s a gratuitous photo:
That knife is ridiculously easy to maintain scary sharp, and was 80-ish€ a couple years ago. It effortlessly outperforms the multiple hundred Euro ‘fancy’ Japanese knives some of my colleagues rock. Not very forgiving of sloppy maintenance, though. At all. And the fairly thin blade with a not particularly well rounded-over back isn’t the most comfortable I’ve ever used, to be charitable. Less bad than Global knives, but not great.
And now to tackle the first, and more complicated part of the question:
Sabatier isn’t actually a brand name. There’s a variety of companies that make knives of wildly varying quality, some carbon steel, some stainless, of the same general shape under that name.
Some of those are spectacularly good knives for relatively little money, some are utter crap, and most are somewhere inbetween.
Personally, I’d say that carbon steel K-brand Sabatier knives are some of the best culinary knives out there, their stainless ones are allright, but not exceptional, and anything else calling itself Sabatier is a gamble.
All that said: the most important thing about any hand tool, and chef’s knives specifically, is that the blade geometry, handle shape, weight distribution and size need to work for you. Personally. Individually.
You absolutely need to get your hands on an example of that particular model of knife and try it out (at the very least mimicking actual cuts on the store counter) to know whether it works for you. If you’ve been using knives for hours a day for a decade or three, you might become pretty good at figuring out whether a particular model might work for you without actually laying hands on an example — but then, you likely wouldn’t be asking this question…
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SOME sabatier knives are superb. SOME are absolute garbage
Yes. some of my colleagues may use SOME Sabatiers while the same exact person might sneer at SOME Sabatiers. In general, pre 1970 Sabatiers have collectable and USE value and are in demand by cooks. POST 1970’s Sabitiers value and desirability are an individual basis.
Sabatier is no longer a sign of a high quality semi handmade forged knife from the area surrounding Thiers and has not been since about the 1970s.
Now it is a service brand of several companies which produce knives of various qualities that might be made in Thiers, or might well be made in Spain, Portugal, Brazil or even China. They might be semi handmade or might be completely machine made, they now might be forged or might be stamped. They might be made of high quality steel, or they might be junk steel.
In the older days, French knives generally had a distinctive geometry in terms of centerline and in terms of the size and shape of their “belly”. This is no longer the case. Because of that geometry, some working cooks and home gourmet cooks like them and some don’t because of the way that geometry might or might not fit their cutting style.
Even within the “good” brands that are using the “descriptive” there is a huge range of quality that might not be apparent to a non working cook, and it is impossible to explain in a short answer. IF buying ANY knife, but especially a Sabatier, ONLY buy from a well known cutlerly specialty store that has a very strong reputation that they would be unwilling to use. IF buying a sabatier, make sure you try a similar geometry for at least 15 minutes to make sure it fits your cutting style (rocker vs pusher)
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Sabatier knives vary a bit.
However the K-Sabatier knives mentioned in another answer are quite good. My father has a set of about 10 of them and while not a pro, he is generally considered to be the best at cooking in my parents fairly large circle of friends. His actual job is also a purchasing manager at a steel company, so he has fairly solid knowledge about different kinds of steel and so on.
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First for the elephant in the room: Sabatier denotes a kind of knife, not a brand.
Accordingly: yes, they are.
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Sabatier knives are known for their sharpness and durability. Professional cooks often use Sabatier knives because they are reliable and can handle a lot of abuse.
Sabatier knives are used by professional cooks for slicing and dicing. They have a sharp blade that is perfect for cutting through food. Some people say that Sabatier knives are the best on the market, while others say they are not as good as other brands. Ultimately, it comes down to personal preference.
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K-Sabatier knives are excellent, I can not comment on other makers using the Sabatier name. They take a keen edge, and if honed using compound on leather, will take a shaving edge. They hold an edge for a decent amount of use, if using a professional cutting board, either NSF plastic, maple or other northern hardwood.
Boards made of fancy tropical woods look good, but tropical hardwoods frequently have silica in them and will dull a knife rapidly.
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