Güde Alpha Barrel Oak Peeling Knife 6 cm - CVM Steel - Handle Scales Wine Barrel Oak Wood

With any knife, you can technically peel, but with a paring knife, you can shape vegetables and fruit even more perfectly. In kitchen jargon, peeling and shaping is called "tourner." This is where half-moon-shaped potatoes are often carved.

The Alpha Oak Barrel Paring Knife has a 6 cm long, curved blade made of rust-free and hand-sharpened chrome-vanadium-molybdenum knife steel. The curved tip, also known as a "knee," allows for extremely precise fine and round cuts.

Güde knives are hand-forged from a single piece of chrome-vanadium-molybdenum steel, from the tip of the blade to the double bolster. The double bolster, a special feature of Güde knives, provides a counterweight to the blade. The knife is perfectly balanced. The special steel blend and the elaborate manufacturing process with over 30 manual steps give the rust-free blades with a hardness of approximately 58 HRC a special robustness and durability.

The finely polished handle scales made of oak wood from wine barrels over 80 years old, called "stave," are embedded in the steel and triple-riveted. Due to the long aging process, the coarse-textured wood is extremely hard and almost indestructible. The Alpha Oak Barrel series was created in collaboration with Michelin-starred chef Harald Rüssel and his wife Ruth. Harald Rüssel's signature can be found as a laser engraving on each blade.