25cm Long Butcher’s Steak Knife
£330
Choose from over 6,000 possible combinations.
Our configurator lets you choose from 18 blade designs, with full control over handle material, shape, spine pattern and accent colour.Â
A long, lean specialist blade for portioning and carving large cuts of raw and cooked meat. The knife professional butchers reach for, with a bit of weight in the nose and a profile that glides through big roasts without resistance. The slicer in our BBQ range: brisket, picanha, tri-tip, sirloin, leg of lamb. The longer the cut, the more it earns its place.
We came across this archetype at a Sunday lunch in Scotland many years ago, where a family friend was using one to carve up a large roast leg of mutton. We had never seen it done that way before, had a go, and were immediately taken with it. Fantastic for slicing warm meat, big roasts, anything coming off a serious joint. We have been making them for professional butchers (and our semi-secret 12″ version) ever since.
The kitchen version of this blade sits on a wooden handle. The BBQ ’26 version doesn’t. Micarta is a phenolic laminate of cotton and linen cloth, cured with resin under heat and pressure. The trick of it, counter-intuitive enough to be worth saying out loud, is that it grips better wet than dry. The fibre weave gives the surface a microscopic texture that liquid catches on rather than slides off. Wood does the opposite. Plastic does the opposite. For the knife in the set that does the carving, with hot meat juice running down your wrist, that is not a small thing.
The 10″ Butcher’s is the knife in the BBQ range that does the showmanship. The first slice through a brisket is the moment everyone gathers round. A handle that holds its grip when your hands are slick with rub and fat is worth more here than anywhere else in the set.
The 10″ Butcher’s Steak Knife BBQ ’26 is made from Sandvik (Alleima) 14C28N, a modern Swedish stainless steel, hardened in-house to 60 HRC using a nitrogen atmosphere process. The heat treatment takes the steel from 1080°C to -75°C in a controlled cycle that maximises carbide formation, edge stability, and corrosion resistance.
The blade is concave ground to 0.3mm thickness at 1mm from the edge. This geometry reduces drag through dense produce and improves slicing performance without sacrificing rigidity. Every Savernake knife is sharpened to 15° per side.
CATRA, the global authority on cutlery performance, rank our blades in the top 2.5% of all blades ever assessed for initial sharpness and edge retention, tested to ISO 8442-5.
Washing
Wash by hand and dry immediately. The steel handles dishwashers, but the handle materials don’t, and the blade will dull faster regardless. Ten seconds at the sink is the right habit.
Day-to-day maintenance
A honing steel realigns the edge between sharpenings. Two or three passes per side before heavy use is enough. You don’t need to do this every time – just when the blade starts to feel less certain.
Sharpening
We offer complimentary workshop sharpening once a year for the first three years. After that we sharpen at cost. If you prefer to sharpen at home, our blades are ground to a 15-degree bevel – specify this if you use a third-party service, as most sharpen to 20 or 22 degrees as a default.
Storage
A magnetic strip or knife roll is ideal. Loose in a drawer accelerates dulling and risks chipping the edge. If a drawer is the only option, a blade guard solves both problems.
Handle care
Micarta handles need nothing beyond normal washing. They do not require oiling and are unaffected by moisture. Composite handles need nothing beyond normal washing.
Yourself
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
– Ernest Hemingway
Each knife has a default handle that is held in stock and available for next working day despatch.
If you’d prefer another of our standard handles, we’ll despatch within 7 working days.
If you design your own knife through the Configurator, we aim for 4 weeks or less to make it from scratch.
All orders are delivered by Royal Mail Special Delivery Guaranteed in specially-designed tubular Savernake packaging.
A signature and age verification will be required on delivery.
We charge a £40 flat rate for delivery worldwide and use UPS.
Lifetime Guarantee
With proper care, our knives are guaranteed for a lifetime of use
Unique Concave Geometry
Our signature blade profile. A cutting edge with only the thinnest sliver of near-parallel steel to follow through.
CATRA Top 2.5% Worldwide
Independently ranked in the top 2.5% of all knives ever assessed for sharpness and edge retention
60 HRC Hardness
Hardened in-house to 60 HRC using a nitrogen atmosphere and cryogenic treatment to -75°C
Individually Crafted
Every knife is made by hand in our Wiltshire workshop, from steel selection through to final edge
