F.DICK

A long established German maker of slaughtering and butchery knives and sharpening tools; the skill behind its steels, the ones a butcher leans on to bring the edge back mid job, came from its origins in making files. The blades are heat treated and hold an edge under continuous work, and the handles do not slip in a wet or greasy hand: that is why they fill abattoirs and meat rooms.

They suit anyone who works with a knife daily, not for show: the butcher who skins and breaks down a carcass and needs a thin, willing blade, the cook who wants a knife that takes long hours of cutting, and the hunter or farm owner who slaughters his own animal. Not pocket knives, and not folders for the desert: first and last, meat and kitchen tools.

Al Huwaila is an authorised F.DICK agent, with around twenty five items in the butcher and kitchen knives section, known here in Qatar as Umm Sahm. In stock: skinning knives, bone saws including the C1, the steel for bringing the edge back, and four in one sets for the full kit at once. To ask about an item, WhatsApp +974 5094 7142 or come by in Souq Waqif.