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Short blade knives

In this article we focus on small knives with blades up to 14 cm long. They are all sui-table for making particularly fine cuts and for cutting food into precise cubes, strips, and so on. Here is a selection of our specialist short blade knives:

aufschnittmesser — Cold Meats Knife: your brunch companion

The ideal knife for your brunch, snack or packed lunch. Its serrated blade cuts through even the hardest crust or skin. Perfect for salami and ham, but also for use on cheese or for bread rolls and baguettes: all can be cut easily with this Cold Meats Knife.

gemuesemesser — Vegetable Knife: the little all-rounder

With its short blade and manageable shape, this Vegetable Knife is always useful. Peel carrots, slice onions, chop vegetables: this knife can do it all and do it re-ally well. It is part of every foodie's basic equipment.

kochmesser — Cook's Knife: the big all-rounder

The Cook's Knife with a short blade is suited to many of the same tasks that the Vegetable Knife can perform, but thanks to its curved blade it is also suitable for mincing - not possible with the Vegetable Knife. It is absolutely the most important knife in the kitchen and is part of any cook's basic equipment - whether with a short blade or a long one.

santokumesser — Santoku: all-rounder with dimples

The term "Santoku" comes from Japanese and means "three virtues" (san = three, toku = virtues). This name fits perfectly, because the Santoku allows you to perfectly cut the triad of ingredients: fish, meat and vegetables. Thanks to the dimples, sticky or soft foods do not stick to the blade - perfect for wafer-thin cucumber slices, for example.

tomatenmesser — Tomato knife: cut, don't crush

The serrated edge of the Tomato Knife allows you to cut foods such as auber-gines, soft fruit and, of course, tomatoes into clean slices without squashing them. Then you can use the forked tip to pick up the slices with ease.

tourniermesser — Turning Knife: to peel and clean

Small, handy and equipped with a short sabre-shaped curved blade, you use this pa-ring knife - also called a tourne or bird‘s beak knife - for peeling and cleaning fruit and vegetables. This special blade shape allows round foods such as apples or mangoes to be peeled easily. In addition, the plain edge of the Turning Knife allows you to make very fine cuts.

Knives in this article

Classic Ikon

Tomato knife 14 cm / 5"

The knife with a forked tip for tomatoes, cheese and fruit: the finely serrated edge cuts smoothly through firm top layers such as rinds, crusts or skin and is also suitable for cheese or many kinds of fruit. The forked tip is designed to pick up the small slices of the ingredients.

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Ikon

Santoku

What a cook’s knife is for European kitchens, the Santoku is for Japan and the whole of Asia: so versatile in shape, weight and edge that it can be used for mincing and chopping herbs, vegetables and fruit as well as for preparing fish and meat. The sharp blade of a Santoku allows anything from regular to wafer-thin cuts - it is therefore now indispensable in kitchens all around the world.

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Crafter

Sausage knife

The perfect companion for preparing your packed lunch or at brunch: thanks to its fine serrated edge, this Bread Roll Knife not only cuts cleanly through rolls without tearing, it is also suitable for vegetables (such as firm tomatoes), fruit or dry sausage. This makes it an integral part of sandwich preparation and of the brunch table setting, ideally found alongside our Cheese Knife.

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Classic Ikon Crème

Peeling knife 7 cm / 3"

Particularly useful for peeling and cleaning rounded vegetables and fruit: this small, handy Peeling Knife - also known as a Turning or Tourne Knife - with its short, bird’s beak-shaped curved blade, makes it easy to peel produce such as potatoes or apples quickly, preserving the valuable vitamins found directly under the skin. The plain edge of the Peeler / Tourne Knife enables very precise cuts, making it the ideal helper for hollowing out and decorating fruit and vegetables.

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Epicure

Paring Knife 12 cm / 5"

The classic all-rounder: ideal for chopping, cleaning and decorating fruit and vegetables. This Vegetable Knife steals a march as a universal kitchen tool with its short blade and handy shape. Clean carrots, peel apples, chop shallots - it can do many things and do many things well. Together with the Cook's Knife and the Bread Knife , the Vegetable Knife is an essential piece of equipment that no cook should be without.

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Classic

Cook's knife 14 cm / 5"

The all-rounder in the kitchen: the most important piece of basic equipment for every hobby and professional chef, the Cook’s Knife is suitable for most tasks in the kitchen, for the widest variety of cutting and gripping techniques, it makes food prepping a pleasure.

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