Victorinox An Exceptional Quality Cutlery Brand

Victorinox is a world renowned brand, famous for its kitchen cutlery items. It all started in the year 1884 when the founder of the company Mr. Karl Elsener started knife manufacturing company in Ibach-Schwyz, in Switzerland. The name of the company is a combination of two words ‘Victoria’ and ‘Inox’. ‘Victoria’ was chosen after Karl Elsener deceased mother and ‘Inox’ in the French term for metal, hence Victorinox.

The brand not only produces quality kitchen cutlery but also manufacturer’s watches, Swiss Army knives and flashlights. Carl Elsner started the company and competed with the Germans who use to supply their products to the Swiss Army. He came up with his brand “Officer Knife” in the year 1891 and delivered first knives to the Swiss Army. The design of Victorinox multi tool was presented and this original product had a wooden handle and featured a blade, a screwdriver, a can opener and a punch.

Elsener family still possess Victorinox and produces some of the finest Victorinox Cutlery. The company is famous for producing state-of-the-art Swiss Army Knives and also manufacture high quality kitchen knife. The brands kitchen knives are compared with other high end brands as these products are less expensive and made with durable material like high-carbon stainless steel. The speciality of Victorinox Cutlery is in the blades of their knives that are full tang, which means it extends all the way through the handle. This particular make and design produces a very strong knife which is sturdier as compared to the models of other brands.

There are endless features and the other one is the variety of handle types of the knives, like Rosewood, and their patented Fibrox Handles, which include a textured surface for better grip. The material processing part of the Victorinox knives are also different from others as instead of being heat forged, they are cut from cold-rolled sheets of steel. This particular method makes the blades lighter and working with lightweight models won’t tire your hand as quickly.

The brand offers their knives separately or in combination of many types of knife sets. Purchasing the brands block sets is more economical and its popular cutlery set is the 8 piece block set. There is a wide range in this set which can be used for varied purpose. This particular set includes a chef’s knife, bread, a sliver, parer, boning, honing steel, kitchen shears, and an oak storage block.

Here are some of the features and contents of the Victorinox Cutlery 8-Piece Set:

• 8-Piece Set Ratings: 4.5 from total of 44 ratings
• 8-piece Forschner cutlery set, this is a hand-finished set from the factory in Switzerland
• Set Includes: 4-inch paring; 6-inch boning; 8-inch chef’s knife; 8-inch bread; 10-inch slicing; 10-inch sharpening steel; kitchen shears and slant hardwood block
• Material: High-carbon, no-stain-steel blades; full tang processed for strength and balance
• Ergonomic black fibrox handles that minimizes wrist strain
• Can be washed by hand and the brand offers lifetime warranty on this set

There are products of the brand labeled under Forschner by Victorinox the reason behind this is because until recently these knives were commercialized by Victorinox and Forschner. However, the brand now stands alone in the knives producing department.