Paring is produce work: hulling strawberries, coring tomatoes, peeling apples, turning potatoes. Giving the job a green-handled knife means the one blade most likely to be picked up absent-mindedly is already assigned to the right board.
The S104 is Dexter’s cook’s-style paring pattern — a slightly deeper blade than a standard paring knife, which gives knuckle clearance when it is used on a board rather than in the hand.
Dexter-Russell has made cutlery in Southbridge, Massachusetts since 1818 and is the oldest cutlery manufacturer in the United States. The Sani-Safe line is its NSF-certified foodservice range, built around a textured polypropylene handle moulded to the tang so there is no seam for food to lodge in.
