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Carve Out Halloween This Time With a Fruit Knife

Enjoy Halloween this month, with a stainless steel fruit knife.

The Fruit Knife was invented to inspect watermelons, cantaloupes, and other

Carving Pumpkins with a Fruit Knife

fruits for ripeness. This knife is very long and slender, so you can go deep, and do very little harm. Then you can replace the plug so the fruit can be sold.

This knife can also be used to carve pumpkins for Halloween. Its strength and long and slender shape makes carving easy. Its stainless steel construction prevents it from getting rusty when sitting in your drawer.

Many produce companies buy fruit knives with their logo engraved on the handles. They use these in their warehouses. They also give them to their retail customers as promotional business gifts.

Stainless Fruit Knife

10 Neat Things You Can Do With a Fruit Knife

A Kutmaster fruit knife doesn’t cost much, but you can create a million pieces of delicious art with it. Here are some examples:

Carved Orange

Carved Owls

Carved Fruit Buddies

Carved Apple Butterfly

Carved Apple Brothers

Carved Watermelon Display

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.

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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.

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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

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