3.5" Paring Knife - Zhen Series (PM8O) New and enough blade to slide

and enough blade to slide under a rack of ribs in a single pass

crushing a garlic clove flat with the spine and then scooping the pieces straight onto the board with the wide face

anything where you want the whole edge contacting the board at once

Most bread knives are 8 or 9 inches

Reach for this when you've pulled a leg of lamb out of the oven and need to lift each slice cleanly onto the plate without it falling apart

3.5" Paring Knife - Zhen Series (PM8O) New and enough blade to slideReach for this when the knife leaves your hand and the food comes to you. Peeling an apple, deveining prawns, segmenting a blood orange, scoring the skin on a duck breast: these are in hand jobs, and a 3. 5 inch blade is the right size for all of them. You won't get the same control from a utility knife, and you definitely won't get it from a chef knife. Built for In Hand Work The short blade stays inside your hand's field of vision while you're