For more than a century, the Brazilian company Tramontina has been producing knives that win the sympathy of customers due to the excellent price-quality ratio. In addition to knives, companies produce such related products as cutting boards, trays, cutlery, baking dishes, scissors, thermoses, bed tables.
The secret of the popularity of Tramontin knives is largely explained by a wide range that can satisfy the needs of any consumer, whether it is a demanding chef, a prudent lover of saving money on everything, or a supporter of a middle ground who wants to get a decent knife for a reasonable price.
Professional Series
These series are chosen by connoisseurs of the highest quality, such as professional chefs. For them, a knife is a daily work tool, the high cost of which pays off with comfort in work, durability, good and long sharpening, and safety in operation.
For Tramontin knives from the Century series, the blades are made of GIN-1 steel with the addition of molybdenum, which gives the knife increased hardness and the ability to stay sharp for a long time. Handles made of a mixture of fiberglass (30%) and polycarbonate easily withstand strong shocks, aggressive kitchen environments and temperatures up to + 200 °.
The Professional master series includes knives whose blades are stamped from steel 12C27 or steel DIN-1.4110. The high hardness of the blades (56 Rockwell units) allows them to maintain sharpening for a long time. The handles are made of polypropylene with a coating that resists the appearance of fungus on the knife. In addition, the rough surface of the handles makes working with knives more convenient and safer.
Golden mean
There are a huge number of offers on the kitchen knives market. It takes time and perseverance to understand the characteristics, terms and nuances, and then to choose the optimal one from dozens of options. You can go the other way: take a knife with an average price tag, not very expensive, but not cheap either. Here the Tramontin knives are an excellent choice. Reviews about the series of the middle price category are often positive and laudatory, it is quite difficult to find a knife with the same quality for the same money.
Blades of knives from the Onix series are made of chrome-molybdenum steel DIN 1.4110, on which four layers of a special non-stick coating with ceramic particles are applied. Rubber handles do not slip, lie comfortably in the hand and have antimicrobial protection.
The Tramontin knives from the Polywood series have blades made of AISI 420 sheet steel, which has a fair amount of corrosion and heat resistance. The handle, consisting of pressed sheets of wood, is beautiful, waterproof, and durable. These knives can be safely put in the dishwasher.
Budget Tramontin series
Knives of the Multicolor and Universal series combine affordable cost and rather high quality of a handle and a blade. The blades for these series are made according to a special technology: inexpensive AISI 420 steel goes through several cycles of heat treatment and polishing, due to which it acquires good hardness (53 units) and the ability to hold sharpening. Multicolor knife handles are made of durable, wear-resistant polypropylene. Universal knives have wooden handles.