Like all kitchen knives in spite of those scalloped or dished out oval shapes that line their blade’s edge, a paring knife can’t get through any cutting without food sticking to the blade. Swiping your finger along the edge to release those small bits of food always presents a slight risk of cutting your finger.
Now there is a super-sharp carbon steel non-stick paring knife called the “Paring Colori 1” that is made by Kuhn Rikon, a Swiss cookware and kitchen tool manufacturer. The Colori has a bright non-stick coated surface (with matching handle) that solves the problem – nothing sticks to the blade and like it’s counter part, the ceramic paring knife, it (allegedly) remains forever sharp.
The non-stick paring knife blade is made of a high-quality carbon-steel that has a coating that it is available in a large selection of colors: Orange, Green, Red, Black, Purple, Pink (shown above), Blue, Yellow, Apple Cider, Lilac, Teal, Carib. Blue, New Purple, and Periwinkle. It even has its own matching color plastic protective sheath. When in its sheath, the Colori is handy for any culinary chef or cook to carry in their pocket for quick and easy access as they move around the kitchen area.
While Kuhn Rikon claims that this paring knife “remains sharp” I remain ‘slightly dubious’. Logic dictates that at some point it will lose its edge leaving me to wonder how in the world one would sharpen a color-coated blade after raking it repeatedly across a sharpening stone or even a hone. It seems, to me anyway, that in doing so you would remove the top layer of coating thus exposing the underlying metal. Not a big deal but it does seem to defeat the purpose of color-coating the blade.
Perhaps one day someone will be able to make a metal that is infused with a pigment throughout. Until then, paring knives such as the ”Paring Colori 1” while a bit of a novelty only cost $10. So, with that, if or when it does lose it’s edge you can simply go out and purchase another one.
