KIWI Knife 502 Fruit Knife

Kiwi’s knife is made from a high-grade stainless steel blade and sharpened by skilled workmen. It features a firm handle that provides a strong grip that makes it easy to use.

Good quality stainless Steel.

Super sharpness for the blade edge, cut anything with great ease.

Durable, long lasting…

MADE IN THAILAND

502 – Kiwi Brand paring knife with a five inch blade and a wooden handle.

As this is a general purpose paring knife and so it is perfectly suited for working with fruit and vegetables, however it is also suitable for performing many other kitchen tasks, like cutting cheese or cold meats.

Some of the typical uses for a paring knife would be:

Vegetables:

• Peeling
• Slicing
• Coring
• Removing seeds and membranes
• Mincing herbs
• Eyeing potatoes
• Skinning mushrooms
• Crushing garlic

Fruit:

• Peeling
• Slicing
• Coring
• Segmenting citrus fruit
• Hulling strawberries
• scraping out seeds from vanilla pods

Meat and fish:

• De-veining prawns
• Shucking oysters
• Filleting small fish
• Scoring meat
• Trimming fat from meat
• Carving small carcasses such as poultry
• Testing tenderness of meat

Other uses:

• Slicing cheese
• Slicing cured meats like salami etc.

The blade is made from Japanese high carbon martensitic stainless steel (SUS420J2) which has been hardened and tempered for optimal sharpness. This knife has a razor sharp, double bevelled cutting edge and it has an attractive wooden handle.

This is the same shaped blade as the Kiwi Brand 512 – 5″ paring knife with a yellow plastic handle and the 792 Kom-Kom 5″ paring knife with hardwood handle.

The 502 is a small and ergonomic paring knife  that is especially suited for working with smaller ingredients.

Model: No. 502
Blade length: 120mm
Handle length: 113mm
Overall length: 233mm
Blade width: 20mm
Blade thickness: 1mm
Handle thickness: 9mm
Handle height: 18mm
Weight in package: 39g