Produce knives are a category of their own: very narrow, quite short, and made for one motion repeated thousands of times — cutting a stem, trimming a root, topping a bunch. The slim blade slides between packed produce without bruising what is next to it.
At seven-eighths of an inch deep there is barely any face to catch, so it works in tight crates and cases. It is a working tool rather than a bench knife, and the plain wooden handle reflects that.
Dexter-Russell has made cutlery in Southbridge, Massachusetts since 1818 and is the oldest cutlery manufacturer in the United States. Traditional is its original pattern book — high-carbon steel blades on hardwood handles, ground to shapes the company has been making for over a century.
