Your Expert Guide to Knives, Sharpening & Kitchen Blades in the UK
There’s a moment every home cook knows: you reach for your enormous chef’s knife to hull a strawberry, and it feels like performing keyhole surgery with a shovel. That’s the exact gap a straight paring knife exists to fill. It’s small, it’s nimble, and — done right — it turns fiddly jobs like coring apples, … Read more
There’s a particular kind of knife that professional chefs reach for when they want to do the fiddly, satisfying work — the kind that transforms a potato into a perfect seven-sided football of culinary artistry, or peels a peach so cleanly you could weep. That knife is the bird’s beak paring knife, and it’s the … Read more
There’s a quiet confidence that comes with reaching for the right small knife. Not the hefty chef’s knife — that’s a workhorse, magnificent in its own right — but the nimble, almost unassuming paring knife that handles the fiddly bits: peeling a butternut squash, segmenting a blood orange, removing the eyes from a potato, or … Read more