Kiwi Brand paring knife with a four inch blade and a black plastic handle.

This knife has a double bevelled razor sharp cutting edge and is perfect for cutting and slicing small to medium sized fruit and vegetables but can also be used along with other carving knives for fruit carving larger fruit like watermelon and pumpkin.

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