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Why The Fruit Knife is Perfect For All Menus

Fruit Carving Masterpieces

The fruit knife is not just for cutting up fruit. It can be used for:

Slicing vegetables
Making table decorations like this one
Cutting up fish
Cutting tender steaks
Slicing cheeses for a cheese tray
Slicing red potatoes for frying in a skillet
Cutting up left-over chicken to make soup
Cutting open clams
Opening up shrimp
Opening Pistachio nuts
Cutting spaghetti on your plate

If you are feeling hungry by now, that makes two of us. Happy cutting!

What Is A Fruit Knife?

Fun With A Fruit Knife

A fruit knife is a long slender folding knife that is used to sample or carve fruit or vegetables. It is often used by produce workers to cut a deep square plug in a cantaloupe or watermelon to inspect the innards. It’s a quick neat way to make an important test.

The average fruit & vegetable lover can use this tool to make interesting carvings like these.

95-1712E Fruit Knife

3 Tricks You Can Do With a Fruit Knife

Carved Apple Brothers

How many ideas can you come up with, using a folding fruit knife and some edible sculpture objects? Folding pocket fruit knives can go with you to any party and help you brighten things up. Apples, watermelons, other melons, and pumpkins aren’t the only objects of your artwork. Try mangos, oranges, and pineapples, too.

Carved Watermelon Display

Of course, there is the usual use of a fruit knife….using it to extract a test plug from a melon to test the color and taste of the fruit without having to destroy the whole thing. This is what they do at the fruit warehouses, and in the fields. This picture shows a tester that went a little too far and carved out several “test” plugs. But that’s ok. Someone will volunteer to eat the mistake.

Watermelon Testing Plug

Stainless steel fruit and vegetable knives come with plastic handles or stainless steel handles. Some have serrated blades for use on tougher fruits.

5 3/4 Stainless Fruit/ Vegetable Knife 95-113ss

7 Common Misconceptions About the Fruit Knife

Mango Carved With A Fruit Knife

I hope this helps your thirst for knowledge about the fruit knife. Here are 7 common misconceptions:

It is made just for cutting fruit. False. I works great on vegetables, too, like potatoes and pumpkins.
A paring knife is just as good. False. Size really matters, and the paring knife just isn’t long enough for some jobs.
A steak knife will do the job better. False. Yes, it may be nice and sharp, and great for cutting meat, but usually not long and slender enough to carve a piece of fruit.
Fruit Knife with a logo electro etched on the handle
The fruit knife is a recent invention. False. It was invented about 1850.
You can’t use it as a letter opener. False. Try it, you’ll like it. plus you can safely fold it and keep it in your pocket for next time.

5 3/4″ Stainless Fruit/ Vegetable Knife 95-113e
You can only use it in the kitchen. False. It is perfectly ok to use a fruit knife at the table, as determined by Emily Post. “A doily goes under the finger bowl, and a fruit knife and fork on either side.”
It’s ok to use your fruit knife in a restaurant. False. At least, I wouldn’t recommend it. You might walk away and leave it there, and never see it again.

4 3/4′ Plastic Handle Fruit/ Vegetable Knife 95-109pp

5 3/4 Stainless Fruit/ Vegetable Knife 95-113ss

5 3/4″ Stainless Fruit/ Vegetable Knife 95-113e

4 3/4′ Plastic Handle Fruit/ Vegetable Knife 95-109pp