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

With any knife, peeling can actually be done, but with the paring knife, vegetables & fruits can be brought into shape even more perfectly. In kitchen jargon, peeling and shaping is called "tournieren." This is when crescent-shaped potatoes are often carved.

The Alpha Barrel Oak paring knife has a 6 cm long blade with a curved tip made of stainless, hand-sharpened chrome-vanadium-molybdenum knife steel. The curved tip, also known as a "Kniepe," 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, acts as a counterweight to the blade. The knife is perfectly balanced. The special mix of steel and the elaborate manufacturing process with over 30 manual steps give the stainless blades with a hardness of about 58 HRC a special robustness and longevity.

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