Matt Preston is travelling Australia for SBS. With Koi Knives.
A new series from Rising Tide Productions, on air July 2026, pairs one of Australia's most recognisable food voices with the knives we make in South Australia.
One of Australia's best-known food voices.
Three-time judge of MasterChef Australia. Food writer, broadcaster, and a cravat-wearer-in-chief who has shaped how a generation of Australians think about cooking at home. Matt Preston has spent more than two decades putting Australian food on screens — and now he's putting Australian food back at the centre of one.
A series across the country.
The new series, produced by Rising Tide Productions and airing on SBS in July 2026, sees Matt travel Australia cooking what the country grows, raises, fishes, and forages. Coastal seafood. Outback game. Suburban barbecues. Vines, fields, fires, and family kitchens — the food of Australia told through the people who put it on the table.
Koi Knives, in his hands.
Koi Knives is the official knife and tool partner for the series. From the Iconic River collection in the kitchen, to the Aviary pocket knives in the field, to the Tide fillet knives at the dock — our blades travel with the production wherever the food takes them. When you watch the series this July, the knives you'll see are the same ones we make at our workshop in Clarence Park.
"When you watch the series this July, the knives you'll see are the same ones we make at our workshop in Clarence Park."
Australia, in hand.
Koi Knives puts Australia in your hand has been our line since we started. Watching the knives we make travel across the continent with one of the country's best-known food voices — that's the line made literal. From a workshop on Goodwood Road to a national broadcaster, by way of every kitchen, dock, and fire pit between.
Tune in to SBS in July. Watch the knives. Watch the country. Then come and pick yours.
The knives Matt cooks with. Yours to take home.
The Iconic River collection — named for the Murray, the Darling, the Cooper, the Yarra, the Fitzroy. VG10 Japanese steel, finished by hand in South Australia. The same knives you'll see on the series.
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