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I love my I.O.Shen knives. I’ve had my collection since June and cooking has been so much easier and enjoyable.
I.O.Shen knives are quite honestly the best knives I have ever used. I’ve therefore once again teamed up with I.O.Shen to bring you this fantastic prize draw for a new 8″ I.O.Shen chef’s knife. This is a great all-round knife that I’m sure the winner will enjoy.
It’s an outstanding, top quality knife that can be used for chopping vegetables and slicing meat and fish.
The 8″ I.O.Shen knife retails for £85.00!
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I would love to know what you will use your chef’s knife for first if you are the lucky winner. Be sure to leave a comment.
you need a good knife when doing any serious cooking and these are just the best there are.
I was impressed to see the image of a swede chopped so neatly, my pet hate … I would thinly slice my crispy chili beef slices first with this wonderful knife.
Slicing fresh tomatoes and soft fleshy fruits really thinly.
I would love a decent knife for cutting meat, I’m sick of knives that go blunt after a couple of uses.
Chopping veggies ready for a yummy curry
I’ll use it first to see just how finely I can chop an onion to go in my curry!
Chopping veg!
I’d buy a pineapple to test my new knife on. I always struggle preparing pineapples but I bet I wouldn’t if I had this knife! A friend of mine has got a whole set of I. O. Shen knives and she loves them.
I’ve tried these and they slice and dice with mo resistance.
I’d use it to “sharpen” my knife skills. Veg, fruit, meat, it would all get the treatment.
Slicing tomatoes
slicing up vegetables to make baby food
I think I will slice tomatoes and marvel at the slither as the knife goes through the skin…
I would bake a lovely whole chicken and then carve it with love and passion to serve perfect sliced chicken to my loved one with a glass of bubbly
after all cooking is like making love and your kitchenware your props 
To chop my swede! I love swede but I find it too hard to chop so rarely have it.
I would use this knife to chop the many ingredients in my curry.
The first use would be making my tea.
Chopping veg
Help chop my chicken for my famous curry
Chopping vegetables
chopping onions, because that’s the first thing i do when making almost every meal
chopping onions
Well, there is my ex……. lol! Apart from him, I would use them for chopping vegetables. I make loads of home-made soups and casseroles during the Winter months and lots ad lots of salads during the Summer, so the knives would be put to great use everyday!
I’ll chop some nuts up.
I’d have to say chopping onions would probably be the first task – but to really put it through it’s paces I’d be chopping some swede as I find that’s the toughest vegetable to chop.
Chopping my veg for my casserole
Vegetables, they are on the menu most days. Must have our 5 a day!!!
Chopping veggies
Making a wicked stir fry. Love it, but my knives mean it takes forever!
To cut French stick as our knife is so blunt it rips the bread instead of cuttting it
A stir fry or casserole, would love to win these knifes!
I would use them for slicing/dicing fresh pieces of beef
Chopping onions!
Cutting onions and tomatoes
It would be a tough choice between sliding though a tomato and giving it a real test with a butternut squash
I would use it to cut up a swede. Every knife i have had has really struggled to cut a swede up, so i would see how good the knife is.
Edit, it looks like ive just copied off the picture, I havnt, just never found a knife good enough to make me feel secure and safe using it while cutting a swede.
Chopping up some chicken.
Chopping the veg for my winter soup
Chopping veg!
Probably on salad, Like tomatoes which are always a pain to slice.
I’m a vegetarian but suffer from rheumatoid arthritis so this would be great to chop my veggies as my knives are as useless as my hands
I’d like to see how it handles the tough stuff like a swede.
If it can cut an onion properly, it can cut anything.
I always need a good knife to chop onions and garlic
Slicing beef. I always have trouble slicing beef thinly.
Need it for slicing a bag full of onions for French Onion Soup
Cutting through butternut squash
Finely chopping onions – perfect!
chopping onions
if i win the knife the first thing i will chop up will be some swede and carrots for a hearty stew ♥
onions, lots of onions
Like many others who have answered i would use the knife to make a stew – its this cold weather it just makes me want comforting warming food.
Chopping up vegetables
I will use it to chop vegetables for a stew, I always struggle chopping a swede.
I would use it to make a lovely beef stew
Beef Stroganoff
For chopping veggies
chopping onions nice and fine!
Butternut squash – are current knives are useless with it – ready for my favourite butternut squash curry
scoring the crackling on my pork, and chopping meat for curries
Cutting through swede
Cut Chicken. Hate cutting chicken with my blunt knives
Always have trouble cutting a turnip whichever knife I use.
Chop veg for my yummy curry
Chopping up some root vegetables for a hearty stew or curry to warm me up! x
Onions!
I will use it on tomatoes as i have loads of trouble cutting tomatoes with knives :{
I’m in soup mode due to the weather so it would be lots of veg to make a freezable base.
Chopping veg and dicing fresh beef for a nice stew and dumplings
Find a spot in the kitchen where it can be seen easily, i’d want to show this beauty off !! Then buy an edge protector big enough to keep the blade from getting damaged when not in use.
I’d use it to chop some pecans to add to my granola mix.
Chopping Veg
I’d love to use it to make a stew for my family!!
Carrots for my pet deer!
Chopping up veggies for a nice stew, if it can cut through a swede then its a winner as normally the only thing that gets cut when tackling swede is me!
to finely chop veg
I would use it as my main prep knife.
For slicing my winter veggies
Slicing onions and carrots
Making quick work of onions fro french onion soup
I will chop a load of veg,carrots,swede,parsnips,onions and freeze ready for cooking stews and casseroles
Cutting the veg!
Gotta test how finely you can chop an onion first
For chopping veggies for soup!
To chop my butternut squash so i can make soup
Cutting a celebratory cake!
loads of onions
Cutting vegetables for a wicked stir fry!
The most difficult veg to cut: butternut squash!
Chopping veg
I always test on tomatos first. If a knife can cut a nice slice of tomato, then it is good to good.
Looks a nice weighted knife that would cut through all my soup veg and especially onions which would be cut so rapidly I might not cry.
My baby boy has just started weaning, so a decent knife for all the vegetable chopping involved in making baby food would be perfect!
veg for my home made soup
I’d test it by chopping tomatoes! See if I could actually get nicely sliced tomatoes for once
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Cutting onion and veg
Chopping veggies for the Sunday Roast
Chopping the veg
Chopping carrots and onions for vegetable soup
First use would be really fine Julienne Carrots
Veg, Especially Swede!
I’d chop some onions and peppers ready for a curry.
i would use it to cut everything
I’d use mine on tomatoes. Usually my knife squishes them instead of cutting them cleanly.
I would use it to cut every thing
Making a vegetable curry
I would use it to cut vegetable more finer.
tomato soup
I would use this knife for chopping everything – veg, meat, bread and make a nice bowl of Scouse!
I’d firstly test them out slicing tomatoes
I would use it for everything, chopping onions especially.
I’ll make a stir fry
I’ll make a veggie curry with it
I would use it to chop vegetables to make some warming soup.
I’ll give it to my husband – he does the cooking!
For chopping me onions
chopping those millions of onions for my indian cooking
I would use it to try out my 1st aid skills as Im sure if its as sharp as I think it is I will need lots of plasters!
cutting the veg for a nice roast dinner
I would use it for chopping veg for a nice casserole
I would use it to cut up my meat as I need a nice sharp knife!
I would cook my first meal for my boyfriend. After 5 years I have succumbed and started learning to cook
carving the roast lamb
I’ll use it to chop up Sweet Potatoes. They are tough little things.
Home made stir fry
For chopping everything up for a stir fry
Chop vegetables finely and slice meat to some great soups
Probably dicing chicken or beef for stews and curries.
I think I’d use it to make a stir fry.
I would chop some veg for a stir fry
Chop some chicken for a tasty curry!
I want to have a real life game of fruit ninja in my kitchen with my wife throwing various fruit up in the air and me slicing through!!!!!!
I would use it to chop chicken or beef up. My meat knife has just given up on me.
For choping veg when making a big pot of Homemade Soup
Slicing chicken, homemade chips, carrots, swede, kiwis, tomatoes
a butternut sqaush bake
I would test it on a Mango – A good Excuse to make some spicy mango chutney
I would use it for chopping the veg for a nice winter stew.x
A roast chicken.
Neater, thinner slices for my stir fry
Chopping vegetables
Slicing my veg for stir frys
Chopping a sweet potato, always find them a nightmare, my knife is sharp but not good enough to split it through, plus i made the tip crooked by dropping it, probably doesn’t help.
I’d make a vegetable curry using butternut squash – it’s always a tad challenging to cut and peel them so would be nice to have a lovely sharp knife for a change!
I’d chop up some braising beef and veg to make a lovely winter casserole.
Slicing bread
cutting butternut squash. That is really hard to peal and cut up.
Slicing bread
chopping vegetables for my special butternut squash lasagne
I’d use it for cutting meat better
Slicing carrots to make carrot soup
Joint a Chicken
Cutting a swede like shown in the pic. And raw meat.
i need a knife like this ours are all blunt
Chopping veggies
I would use these to prepare my meat and veg
Slicing fruit, vegetables and preparing meat.
A good knife is always the start of an excellent dish
to make coleslaw
Veggies for a lovely, scrummy, healthy stirfry! Mmmmm
We do a lot of veg chopping in our house, so that will be the first use!
Chopping veggies!!
would use it for those really difficult veg like butternut squash and swede!
Slicing tomatoes, the ultimate test of a good knife!
Chopping vegetables to make a soup, as long as my chef boyfriend doesn’t snaffle it before I get the chance!
chopping vegetables for curry
I think it would have to be to cut a butternut squash, my knives tend to struggle with that so I don’t make my squash curry as much as I would like to – with this knife it wouldn’t be a problem
Cutting hard to cut veg for a winter stew
onions and tomatoes for a quick pasta sauce
Probably scoring the crackling on the pork joint at the bottom of my freezer. My youngest laughed when I tried to score the last one… The knife was actually bending and making no impact at all!
Stri fry veg
I imagine a curry or chilli would be the first thing I do with it!
A curry!
I’m forever making pans of soup in this weather so would be really handy for chopping the veg!
i will chop carrots and onions as they are my most hated job with a non-sharp knife
I suppose it would be for all of my meat,fresh and cooked,because i have not one sharp enough to deal with meat.
Beef and veggie stew
I will use it to chop up some vegetables for a Sunday roast!
Veg ready for roast dinner!
finely chopping garic
Cuts some veg!
Chopping veg & fresh herbs for soup
If it can cut swede with ease then I’m happy!!!
I’d love to be able to dice onion the proper way but my current knives always stick as I’m pulling them out of the horizontal slices and I end up with a strange mixture of shapes!
chopping those pesky turnips.
I love swede but I can’t cut it with my arthritis joints so I end up buying pre-chopped from the supermarket and I hate doing that. A good knife would certainly be a bonus for me
chicken curry – fave
Theres nothing better than a good knife when preparing food. My knives are just about shot now as I have had them for many years. I have never used this brand of knife and would love to try it. I have a large family and cook and prep fresh veg everyday so knives are a must in my kitchen.
I think first I would use it to cut carrots or onions, then any veg really that needs to be sliced or diced.
I’d use it on vegetables for a stir fry
Chopping vegetables for my homemade Cawl
I always struggle to chop swedes so this would be one of the first I tried it on!
raw onions i hate cutting those
I would test on tomatos first. If a knife can cut a slice of tomato thinly with out squashing it then it got to be good.
I would use them to cut my potatoes for our Sunday roast!
Very good knives, excellent for any type of chopping
Chopping the meat for a good curry!
To improve my cooking. I like to experiment.
To finally chop an onion with ease!
I’d use it to slice my chicken breasts for my curry.
Make my side dish I serve with all my curries – extra speedy homemade coleslaw
Slicing & dicing veg
Chopping up carrots
Prepping lots of root veg for a stew.
i am training to be a chef and i think this knife would be a great start for me
i love cooking its all ive ever wwnated to do since i was little ..
I make a lot of casseroles so these would be fab to chop up all the vegetables
I would do a stir fry!
Will help speed up preparing the evening meals!
Would chop up the fresh veggies for my gecko’s livefood
I have such trouble with our tough skinned squashes, I wold try it out on one of those first.
fresh tomatoes
all vegetables would be sliced thinly
Turnips. Love mashed turnip at this time of year but peeling and chopping them is a marathon!
I’d use it to cut all the veg for the cassorole I’m making for dinner tonight lol.
I’d use it to chop through butternut squash because it has to be one of the hardest veg to cut!
To chop up an onion quickly without crying
Chopping veg – a great test for a knife!
Can’t remember last time I bought new knives. My wife says old ones are fine, I’d be better off using the rolling pin!
Chopping everything I need for a stir fry.
my stir frys and my fajita’s they will be fab for chopping the chicken and all my veg/salad
Chipping the spuds!
Chopping vegetables
Chopping vegetables for a salad
Great knife! should make swift work for the veg for my thai green curry
Chopping up vegetables and tofu for a veggie curry
I just love cooking and a good knife makes it even more enjoyable.
I would slice salad and veg to make a salad.
Chopped lots of veg for home made soup
I’m starting a raw food diet so I would use it on all kinds of hard to slice natural goodies.
I’ll be carving up some nice cuts of meat and a roast as well!
I’ll probably be slicing and dicing some lamb up for a nice tagine.
I want to use a knife without squishing my tomatoes if they were a tad bit ripe… I wish I can have a nice set like I.O.Shen Knives
Chopping veg into nice even sized pieces
tagine
raw chicken
Fresh Fish.
chopping a variety of vegetables
I struggle with butternut squash so am hoping a very sharp knife would help! xoxo
to cut some frozen lamb and veg for our Chinese hotpot
I would use it to chop all my root vegetables for a vegetable biryani
Chopping onions to start a pasta sauce
All the tricky things – squash, swedes, celeriac etc
To slice some nice fresh chicken breasts to go in a curry
Chop finely everything I need to make homemade stir fry instead of wasting money on the bags
chopping all my veg for my veggie stirfry
I NEED this. My favourite knife is 50 years old and getting very thin and fragile.
I am in need of a new knife for root vegetables and other. I can feel a butternut squash curry coming
I asked my partner, and she wants me to say for cutting up a body so she can get it in her small boot. But really, she would love to use it for preparing beef rogan josh. She’s normal, honestly!
Chopping all my vegetables up as my current set of knives need replacing. I cook a lot with pumpkin and they are little monkeys to get into!
I would use mine to prepare a nice healthy stir-fry
chopping meat to go in a sunday roast
Cutting up a tomato, a great test of a good knife I think!
Chopping up some veggies!
Have to confess it wouldn’t be me using it. I’d give it to my husband and he would use it to cut up veg and potatoes and make us all a delicious Irish Stew
I’d love a ‘proper’ knife.
I need to start replacing my kitchen devils lol Been sharpened so many times i think i deserve some good quality knives. My current chefs knife from M&S is ok but still does not slice through my tomatoes as i see the chefs on TV seem to be able to do.
Good luck to you Rosamond. I love my I.O.Shens.
Thanks Dan. I am not lucky in these things but i still try
We’ve just started to upgrade our knife collection, but getting good knives are so expensive! I’d love to with this I.O.Shen – definitely would use it to prepare a stir fry right away!
Roast Butternut Soup
I love a good knife. I would use it so I don’t get blisters after my volunteer shifts. And butternut squash
………….finely sliced tomatoes
Making quick work of Stir Fry vegetables
I need a good knife to chop, finely dice vegetables, chopping is so therapeutic and I feel a sense of pride looking at a finely diced onion I have chopped myself, I sharpen my current knife and end up cutting my fingers more than the veg. Please, perleeeze, pretty please, I long for this knife, I lust after this knife. Fingers crossed.
I would use it to fillet a fish
To make a great curry with loads of vegtables
This would be great
I will slice and dice lts of yummy veg!
Brilliant knives that will last you a lifetime¬
The winning answer is’ i want to cook like Dan so i need the same tools lol
LOL.
To chop Onions & Garlic & ginger to make a curry of course!
To show off and only use on special occasions. Everyone else in the family will be banned from using it
i would use my knifes
to chop up a salad
with many celery hearts
and spanish onions to start
cucumber and radishes to be seen
and add lettuce
what a dream
Nice one Linda. Like that.
To chop mango for a perfect chutney
I would see how fine I could chop a multitude of ingredients.
I would use it as my main chefs knife, I am using a victorinox 22inch which I am very attached to, Its got to be good to replace, I am sure it is
Lets face it, everyone wants a free quality knife.
I’ll probably use it first to cut the mountain of veg for my new batch of relishes and pickles
I would chop everything up to make a yummy curry
I would dice up some yummy chicken
It slices, it dices, it makes french fries in three different ways!
malt loaf, yet to find a knife to slice through this without squashing it lol
To cube chicken for a hot curry!
I’d chop up some fresh veg, nice and thin for a stir fry.
Id use it to chop ingredients for a lovely beef casserole
I’d use it to fillet my duck for my marinated Chinese duck with stir fried vegetables. It cheaper to buy a full duck and fillet it all myself rather than buying just the breast
These knifes are incredible, great for chopping onions
I’d almost certainly use them to prepare a hotpot. I can never get the vegetables quite as thin as I need them so this would be ideal
Slicing up vegetables for a stew
How, I really want to win.
so daily my name goes in
To win a chef’s knife by Shen
I return again and again
My old blade has worn very thin.
Like many people, I am ashamed to say I desperately need new knives, and the 8 inch Shen chef’s knife would be a good place to start. I covet this knife.
Boning a chicken x
Slicing some veggies!
I really need a good knife for salads so that will be first on the list
I love salmon sashimi, so I would try slicing up fresh salmon and making my own.
I’ll slice a celeriac which is a pretty tough task for any knife:)
I would make chicken curry for sure!
ALL MY KNIVES ARE BLUNT SO I WOULD LOVE THESE
Chopping the veg for my casserole!
Would give for my partner. he is a chef and loves knifes :}
i would use it to make a curry!
For anything and everything
Good quality knives are invaluable in the kitchen
all the bits for a stir fry – veg, chicken etc
Got a body needs chopping up! Mwuhahahaha.
Actually, butternut squash!
Butternut squash I love it but hate trying to cut it up
chicken curry
Chopping a butternut squash to roast to make my favourite soup
Gourds – I find them impossible with the knives I have
The sunday roast
Thin strips of beef and slicing veggies for a stir fry
I would give them to my partner, he loves being in the kitchen but doesn’t get much time to do it. I know he would love these. He’s always ranting and raving about our current crappy knives which were £4 for a set from Asda! lol Bless him!
A thai red curry, mmm
I’d use it for chopping veg!
Looks like a great knife. Weekend cooking here I come
I love to make casseroles and soups, but there’s so much chopping. A good knife would certainly make it more enjoyable.
Make a pot of Welsh Cawl
I would use it to prepare a lovely warning Beef Casserole.
For cutting up the steak for a casserole.
I would use it to be able to chop onions up faster. I’m then less likely to get teary eyes
i would use it to chop up vegetables with speed for a family stir fry
Chopping up all my veg to make a warming hearty soup.
Kiwi? I don’t really know but might as well do something nice
To cut tomatoes; I find these are definitely the most difficult thing to cut with a blunt knife as pressing too hard causes you to squash the tomato and lose all the seeds.
Fingers crossed! I’ll be using the knife to teach myself how to properly chop an onion. I can’t seem to get it right and have never been able to afford a decent knife
Probably to carve a Sunday roast
to chop up the chicken
I guess I might start with chopping my vegetables for my packed lunch salad
cut some onions
Slicing tomatoes very quickly
I would definately use them to make a thai chicken curry from scratch with a plethora of ingredients
For my favourite food,
these would be good
to help me make curry
when I’m in a hurry.
Chopping the veg and chopping the meat,
add some spice and put over the heat!
chopping swede is what i struggle with the most,this knofe looks like it will make very short work of it, so that will be the first test
ill make a chicken curry
Dicing my chicken
Butternut squash – always have trouble chopping them!
Chopping veg for a good hot stew
chopping my veg
Veg for a stir fry.
Cutting the onion for a stew
A tomato, a good knife is great with carving shapes out of tomatoes.
make sushi
chopping veggies up for a soup
Chopping veg!
Chopping veg. I really really really want to win this knife,
I need a good knife to chop, finely dice vegetables, chopping is so therapeutic and I feel a sense of pride looking at a finely diced onion I have chopped myself, I sharpen my current knife and end up cutting my fingers more than the veg. Please, perleeeze, pretty please, I long for this knife, I lust after this knife. Fingers crossed.