Mundial Inc. of Porto Alegre, Brazil, offers quality comparable to the best European brands, but with a price advantage that makes Mundial the favorite of many restaurants and institutions. Brazil produces some of the world’s best steel, and Mundial puts that to good use, manufacturing 95 percent of the products it sells in its own Brazilian facilities.
Paul Zivi, a German metallurgist, developed the Mundial brand in Germany in 1931. Working with a team of German designers and engineers, Zivi established the sophisticated manufacturing process that today maintains the quality of Mundial knives from start to finish. Zivi and his team emigrated to Brazil in the 1930′s in order to take advantage of abundant and less expensive resources in South America. Mundial created its own alloy of high carbon stainless steel to be competitive with the well known Solingen steel favored by European cutlers, successfully combining the wealth of the New World with the technology and craftsmanship of Germany.
Mundial divides its knives into two main groups, Premium and Professional. In the Premium category you’ll find knives designed for the homeowner, created with grips of natural wood, polymers, or stainless steel. The synthetic handles of the 5100 series come in four bright colors to add some spark to your kitchen. The most elegant and most traditional style, Mundial’s Olivier, features forged blades and a beautiful one-piece wood handle. The Olivier knives are based on the concepts of Brazilian Chef Olivier Anquier. Mundial’s Professional products combine stamped steel blades and molded synthetic handles. Made for restaurant and other food service workers, the knives are built to reduce fatigue and increase food safety. Although not as artistic as the Premium lines, the Professional series gives homeowners efficient knives at low cost.
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This ten-inch Chef's Knife in Mundial's Olivier Anquier pattern holds firmly to the Old World cutlery traditions of strong forged blades and bolsters and tough steel. Mundial does include a couple of improvements -- high carbon stain-free steel for extended blade life and granton hollows for better cutting action ...
Mundial's six-inch Light Cleaver is one of the company's few stamped steel products, but uses strong construction that involves much more than a simple tang embedded in a wooden grip. This high carbon stainless steel cleaver weighs 1.2 pounds and was designed to chop through bones.
In this cleaver, the tang connects ...
Mundial's Olivier Anquier Santoku with seven-inch hollow edge blade makes a few concessions to Asian styles, but it's very much an Old World knife. The wide drop-point blade still does a good job of slicing vegetables, fruit and meat.
The forged high carbon stainless steel design of this santoku gives ...
This well-rounded basic set of forged stainless steel kitchen knives from Mundial of Brazil offers more than basic quality. With distinctively shaped handles of Brazilian tropical hardwood, the Mundial Olivier Anquier pattern has been featured in magazines like InStyle Home.
If it's more than steel you're after and you do ...
Carving sets may see more use in the kitchen, but where they make the most impact is the dining table. On holidays, carving the roast or the turkey is a ritual worthy of tools that impress as well as work properly. You could choose a stamped steel carving set ...
The professional-quality Diamond Sharpening Steel from Mundial of Brazil will sharpen blades ordinary honing steels can't touch. Harder steel and worn edges can both be restored to working order with the Diamond Hone, but be cautious. There's still good reason to own a whetstone.
Honing steels were not intended to shape ...
Mundial makes this professional quality sharpening steel in three different lengths -- one of them will be the perfect match to any European style knife in your kitchen.
Designed for professional food service workers, meat packers, and restaurant employees, the Mundial Professional product lines are just as efficient and economical for ...
Nearly every good cook knows the benefits of a honing steel, but strangely enough, not that many realize that the best honing steel is polished smooth. This 10-inch Butcher's Steel Hone from Mundial of Brazil was made for professionals, who like to keep this good tool their little secret.
The type of ...
Mundial of Brazil offers this professional-quality honing steel for both home and restaurant use -- buy one and it should last a lifetime.
This 10-inch sharpening steel with ergonomic polyacetal grip uses a micro-grooved surface with the hardness of a steel file to reset blade edges without removing steel from ...
This professional 8-Piece Chef's Set from Mundial of Brazil has some genuine advantages when compared to top quality cutlery from other manufacturers. These practical knives flex rather than break, sharpen easily, and aren't expensive to replace if someone else "borrows" one of your good knives.
The Mundial 5600 ...
If you have the good fortune to live where the clams do -- or if your local seafood market offers the fresh item in the shell -- you'll definitely need a couple of good clam knives like the Mundial Narrow Clam Knife Set. A paring knife isn't ...
Built for the traveling professional chef, this 7-piece Mundigrip Chef's Knife Set from Mundial of Brazil would also make a great starter set for the culinary student. One of the practical features of this economical and efficient assortment is that losing one of these knives won't take a ...
This set of three 4-inch Spear Point Paring Knives from Mundial could be one of the best deals you find this year. These professional-grade knives meet NSF sanitary standards, are light and comfortable to use, and should fit into anyone's budget.
If you're like me, paring knives disappear ...
The narrow high carbon stainless steel blade of this 8-inch Fillet Knife from Mundial's Professional 5600 series was designed for separating the flesh of fish and poultry from the bone. Skill counts when you're trying to get the day's catch to the table, but a good fillet knife is just as ...
The professional-quality Mundial Offset Sandwich Knife with serrated edge follows the Z-knife pattern -- one of the blade styles preferred by famous chef Anthony Bourdain. With its extra knuckle clearance, the Offset Knife works like a lightweight chef's knife -- if you brown-bag your lunch, it's a great time saver.
The ...
Mundial's 10-inch Roast Slicing Knife from the professional quality 5600 series brings practical restaurant cutlery to the home kitchen. This Brazilian-made high carbon stainless steel full tang knife offers performance similar to Forschner/Victorinox and at a budget price.
The roast slicing knife's 10-inch blade, stamped from cold rolled stainless steel, ...
The 6-inch-long, plain-edged blade of the Mundial Boning Knife is noticeably stronger than a filet blade and made for de-boning larger cuts of meat, fish, and poultry. The twisting leverage of the full-sized handle guides the blade along bones and through tough tissue for quick preparation of tender cuts of ...
This professional-quality Serrated Utility Knife from Mundial of Brazil is from the Mundial 5600 series, built for use in restaurants and other high volume food service industries. Buy one for the kitchen at home and you'll get the same benefits of economy, durability and built-in sanitation that professional kitchens ...
Designed for the professional cook, Mundial's 5600 series -- including this 10-inch Cook's Knife -- is also one of today's best choices for the home kitchen. Quality rivals the popular and economical Forschner/Victorinox product line, and the value per dollar may be today's best cutlery deal.
Mundial created this Cook's ...
Whether you cook professionally or at home, you should find the Mundial 8-inch Cook's Knife to be plenty of knife for nearly every ordinary prep job. Save larger knives for the bigger jobs, and save your hands with this one. If you do much prep work, you'll ...
The wide slot spacing of this wood storage block from Mundial of Brazil makes it a good match for most American and European brands as well. Thinner Asian knives will also fit, but the Mundial KB-9 block was designed for heavier blades.
With dimensions of 8-1/2 by 4-3/4 by 9 ...
The white polyacetal handle slabs of these fine steak knives from Mundial are their most striking feature, but there's excellent quality in the stainless steel construction as well. Mundial's 5100 series knives are forged from a solid bar of high carbon stainless steel using the same processes as for ...
Designed by French chef Olivier Anquier and manufactured by Mundial of Brazil, this 12-piece block set looks good enough to display in the dining room. The hardwood handles and strong bolsters make the knives equally practical, built to use as well as admire.
Begun by an emigrant from Germany, Mundial's Brazilian ...
From one of Mundial's highest quality product lines, this four-piece steak knife set combines the design concepts of French chef Olivier Anquier with the Old World German craftsmanship of this famous Brazilian company. Add renewable Brazilian tropical hardwood to the good ideas in this steak set.
Chrome molybdenum stain-free high ...
Mundial of Brazil presents this fine set of forged all-stainless steel knives in a futuristic matching knife block to accent the beauty of your kitchen as well as handle all stages of the work. Traditional craftsmanship combines with modern manufacturing methods to give Mundial customers the best of ...
Though this set of forged high carbon stainless steel knives is manufactured in Brazil, the design and quality is thoroughly German. Adhering to proven ideas from Solingen knife makers, Mundial's knives buck no trends. You get knives as knives were made decades ago, with strong bolsters and solidly built ...
A practical starter set from Mundial of Brazil, this selection of four knives, sharpening steel and kitchen shears comes with a ten slot hardwood block and a limited lifetime warranty. To fill the extra slots you'll definitely need Mundial knives with these same distinctive polyacetal full tang handles. ...
We've got strong opinions about Chef's knives around here. Check out our guide to kitchen knives on a budget to get an overview, but we tend to recommend Japanese knives like Shun or, if you're on a budget, Tojiro. If you're insistent on German knives, Messermeister is ...
Santokus have become wildly popular over the past several years. Perhaps it's the novelty of using an Asian-style blade. Or perhaps it's the celebrity chefs that push them at every turn.
Truth is, they are versatile knives that belong in every kitchen. What they're not is an all-purpose knife that should ...
Mundial Knives are the choice of many professional chefs, so you know they're high-quality. But don't just take their word for it; check out the details...
This set includes the essential kitchen knives and not too much else. This is a good thing -- you don't want to pay extra for knives ...
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