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KOTAI’s mission is to empower chefs to transform ideas into reality and express their creativity in the kitchen, by offering them inspiring and reliable tools.
Ten years ago, Jérémie, the founder of KOTAI, left his hometown of Lille to embark on a journey to Asia, where he discovered a passion for cooking. During his travels, he encountered frustrations with dull knives: inefficiency, injuries... A solution was needed.
He then adopted a magnificent knife from Kappabashi Street in Tokyo, highly favoured by professionals and renowned for their exceptional sharpness. However, he realized that this knife model required frequent maintenance to prevent oxidation, chipping or breakage.
"Traditional Japanese knives are sharp, precise, and beautiful, but they are also fragile and prone to chipping and oxidation if not maintained very specifically. Western knives are robust, durable, and resistant to oxidation, but they lack the sharp edge and agility of their Asian counterparts."
Obsessed with this dilemma, he consulted countless knife makers, designers, metallurgical engineers, chefs, and cooking enthusiasts. And three years and a hundred prototypes later, KOTAI was born: light, precise, and ultra-sharp like a Japanese knife, stainless, sturdy, and highly resistant like a German knife.
Our collaboration with "La Tablée des Chefs" first began in March 2023 and has only grown stronger since then. We share a mutual vision of using the power of food and culinary expertise to make a positive impact in the lives of those in need. In the short period of time that we have been working together, KOTAI has felt privileged and honoured to be one of the sponsors of "La Tablée des Chefs" Culinary Brigades program, which was held in the city of Paris in June 2023.
As part of the 2023 edition of the traditional Great Christmas Sale organised by the Mécénat Chirurgie Cardiaque association, KOTAI was honoured to make a donation worth €2,000 and to support the noble mission of this project. Every year, this major Christmas market raises funds by reselling 100% donated products to finance surgical operations on disadvantaged children with heart malformations.
KOTAI is delighted to contribute, as a patron, to the Ruban Rose Association, a non-profit association dedicated to information and support for breast cancer research. The association's mission is to support research and to inform and raise awareness of breast cancer, notably through the Octobre Rose annual event.