Opinel - N°119 Santoku Knife Parallèle – Premium Multi-Purpose Japanese-Style Kitchen Knife

Opinel - N°119 Santoku Knife Parallèle – Premium Multi-Purpose Japanese-Style Kitchen Knife

The Opinel N°119 Santoku Knife Parallèle is a multi-purpose kitchen powerhouse, expertly engineered to bring the precision of Japanese culinary design to the modern home kitchen. Part of the contemporary Parallèle collection, this exceptionally versatile knife excels at the three classic culinary pillars: slicing, dicing, and chopping. Featuring a distinctively robust blade profile and a continuous cutting edge, it provides effortless stability and fluid movement, making it an indispensable, high-performance tool for passionate home cooks and professional chefs alike.

Best For Home cooks, meal-preppers, and culinary enthusiasts seeking a stable, rigid, and razor-sharp Asian-style chef knife that simplifies heavy vegetable chopping, meat portioning, and precision herb mincing.

Key Features

• Heavy-Duty Rigid Blade: Features an ultra-robust **3 mm thick blade** that provides maximum rigidity, balance, and structural stability, preventing the steel from flexing when cutting through dense, heavy ingredients.

• Continuous Cutting Edge: Intentionally designed with a continuous, unhindered edge that completely frees up the heel of the knife. This allows for full-length blade contact with the cutting board, dramatically increasing chopping efficiency and smoothness.

• High-Quality Stainless Steel: Forged from premium corrosion-resistant stainless steel, ensuring the blade remains bright and completely free from rust or staining, even when working with highly acidic ingredients.

• Ergonomic Beechwood Handle: Outfitted with a premium, durable French beechwood handle that offers a soft, natural touch and a secure, comfortable grip, giving you confident leverage during long prep sessions.

Specifications

• Blade Length: 16.5 cm

• Handle Length: 13.5 cm

• Overall Length: 30 cm

• Blade Thickness: 3 mm (Heavy-duty rigidity)

• Blade Material: Premium Corrosion-Resistant Stainless Steel

• Handle Material: Traditional French Beechwood

• Blade Style: Santoku / Continuous Edge

• Available Colour: Beech

Ideal For (Uses)

• Precision Slicing & Dicing: Flawlessly dicing onions, segmenting bell peppers, processing root vegetables, and creating paper-thin slices of cucumber or radish.

• Clean Meat & Seafood Prep: Effortlessly portioning boneless proteins, slicing strips of beef or chicken for stir-fries, and cleanly trimming skin away from fish fillets.

• Rapid Herb Mincing: Utilizing the flat, continuous edge for fast, clean down-strokes to quickly mince flat-leaf parsley, rosemary, garlic, and fresh ginger without bruising the produce.

Pro Tip: Meaning "Three Virtues" in Japanese, a Santoku knife is celebrated worldwide because its flatter profile is optimized for a clean, efficient up-and-down chopping motion, rather than the rocking motion of a traditional Western chef knife. To preserve the stunning natural grain and mechanical longevity of the authentic beechwood handle, please avoid the dishwasher and never leave the knife soaking in a wet sink. Simply hand-wash the blade with warm, soapy water after use, wipe it dry immediately, and store it safely in a knife block. An occasional light coat of food-safe mineral oil on the timber will keep your Santoku looking pristine for decades!

Oversized Item Delivery Options

Oversized, heavy, and structural goods ship via specialist freight. Freight is calculated at checkout from estimated packaged volumetric or physical weight. Carrier depot audits may adjust the rate — if the increase exceeds 10%, we will contact you before processing.

Available options include:

✔ Delivery to your closest depot for pickup — default method
✔ Direct delivery — requires an operational forklift on site unless Tailgate Delivery has been specifically requested and quoted (contact us — this cannot be selected at checkout)
✔ Tailgate hydraulic lift delivery — must be specifically requested; contact us for a quote (not available as a checkout option; extra fees apply; required if you do not have a forklift)
✔ Forklift loading at our warehouse (no extra charge if you arrange your own freight)
✔ Direct truck delivery (available in Victoria)

Important Notes:

• Shipping costs vary by location and method
• Any carton or consignment over 25–30kg (or over 200cm) must be palletised
• Without a specifically requested and paid Tailgate Delivery quote, palletised freight requires a forklift on site — otherwise the carrier will redirect to the nearest depot
• Bulky and oversized items cannot be delivered to a PO Box — provide a physical street address
• Failed deliveries, locked gates, unattended sites, or incorrect business/forklift declarations may incur carrier redelivery, demurrage, and restocking fees as set out in our Terms & Conditions

Business Delivery:

• Selecting a business/commercial delivery rate warrants that the address has an operational forklift and certified operator during business hours
• If the carrier cannot unload, the consignment may be redirected to a depot and secondary fees may apply
• Additional fees may apply for failed delivery attempts due to lack of appropriate unloading equipment

See our Terms & Conditions (Article 8) for full freight and delivery rules.

Important Note on Availability & Shipping

Our warehouse is a logistics hub, not a retail showroom. Listing a product online does not mean it is stored at our Thomastown warehouse — many lines ship from supplier hubs (split fulfilment may apply).

How lead times work:

• Product page ETA: The Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) / lead-time badge shown on the product page at checkout is the agreed delivery timeframe for that order under Australian Consumer Law.
• Metro baselines: Advertised ETAs apply to standard metropolitan zones. Regional and remote addresses may take longer and may attract surcharges.
• Peak seasons: Orders in March–May, August–October, EOFY (June), Black Friday/Cyber Monday (November), and Christmas/New Year (December–January) may automatically add a 2–4 week buffer beyond the product page ETA.
• Supplier-dependent / backordered items: If stock is delayed, we will notify you with a revised ETA. You then have 7 days to accept the new timeframe or cancel for a full refund.
• Adloheat: Custom-made products from Adloheat (Pakenham, VIC) may take 4–12 weeks depending on the order.

Full fulfilment, cancellation, and freight rules are in our Terms & Conditions.

Biosecurity & Interstate Shipping Restrictions

Due to strict state biosecurity regulations, we are unable to ship some products to certain states and territories:

• Potting Mixes cannot be shipped to Western Australia (WA), the Northern Territory (NT), or Tasmania (TAS).
• Seeds cannot be shipped to Western Australia (WA).

Orders placed for these items to restricted states will be cancelled and refunded. It is the customer's responsibility to ensure that the items being ordered can lawfully be delivered to their state or territory.