Knives that don't look like knives

There is no limit to perfection - this rule also applies to such a seemingly familiar tool as a knife. Making it more convenient, brilliant inventors often boldly deviate from classical forms. And this, in turn, leads to the fact that when seeing an “interesting thing” on the counter, only a few can recognize it as a knife. Don't believe me? Well, let's get acquainted with the most popular unusual options and choose a suitable assistant.

Mushroom peeler

This little one is included in today's review only because in most cases it is foldable. And when folded, the assistant for lovers of quiet hunting looks like a keychain with a brush.

String knife

A notable feature of this tool is the absence of a blade. Its role is played by a thin wire. Often there is only one string. In this case, it is either fixed to the handle, or supplemented with two handles.

For the most part, such knives are used for slicing hard and semi-hard varieties of cheese. To facilitate this process at home, you can purchase an option with a roller so that the pieces are even.

There are, of course, models with multiple strings. In this case, they are fixed on the most convenient frame.Depending on the design features, it can be used for slicing cheese, confectionery and even ordinary eggs.

Cheese knife

A slicer very similar to a regular spatula. In fact, it’s a miniature plane that allows you to cut thin slices.

It turns out, of course, not as beautiful as in the advertisement, but they say that if you cut the cheese immediately before eating, it will delight you with a great richness of taste. Isn't this a reason to place a plane on the dining table?

Pizza knife

Steel disc on the handle. The design is so ingenious in its simplicity that you can find various variations on this theme on the market, designed for cutting dough.

Well, if you combine several disks on one roller, you get a wonderful device that makes it easier to make homemade noodles.

apple knife

How to get neat, identical slices and forget about the tedious cutting of the core? A set of steel blades in a convenient plastic case will help solve this problem.

Well, if you just need to carefully remove hard plates and seeds, preparing the fruit for baking, another tool will come in handy.

Peeler

The convenience of this knife can hardly be overestimated - it removes only a thin layer of peel and is absolutely safe. There are two options on the market.

Which one is for vegetables and which one is for fruits is a difficult question, because the tools are interchangeable.

Carving and engraving knives

These devices are well known to people who engage in carving (artistic decoration of fruits). To obtain shaped recesses with minimal time, a carving knife is useful. Its blade can be simply rounded, wavy or corrugated.

Well, for neat grooves, the closed cutting edge of an engraving knife is useful.

Or a channeling tool.

Noisette

How to get an original ball from the pulp of a soft fruit? Easily. All you need is a unique hybrid of a knife and a spoon.

Deveiner

No, this is not a hairpin or tongs. This device makes it very convenient to peel shrimp. Moreover, we are talking about both removing the shell and removing the crown from the tail of crustaceans.

Watermelon knife

This juicy berry can be cut using a large replica apple knife. But what to do if you want to serve neat pieces of pulp without peel? The original pliers with a string stretched between them will cope with this task.

You can use them to cut a watermelon and immediately remove the resulting slices from the peel, placing them on a plate.

Gauge knife

The corrugated blade most closely resembles a hair comb. The similarity is enhanced if the manufacturer considered it necessary to supplement the cutting edge not with a handle, but with a stop.

Such an original tool is useful for only one thing - cutting food into wavy pieces.

Serpentine cutter

When decorating dishes, sometimes you want to decorate them with an original ribbon. It can be made in several ways, but the most convenient of them is to use a serpentine cutter.

This cone-shaped “sharpener” also has a direct analogue - a Cucumbo knife. Just a hollow cylinder with a cutting edge inside.

Well, if you need to make a “garland” from a hard vegetable, then you can use curlers. I'm not kidding.

Zester knife

Citrus peels can be easily turned into usable shavings using a regular grater. But why, if there are tools specially designed for this.

Spiral knives

Depending on the shape of the blade, they can be used to create serpentine or to produce spirals from fruit pulp. Agree, a dish with such decoration will look luxurious on any holiday table.

Cucumber slicer

Another device designed to make it easier to prepare a spectacular presentation of vegetables. What kind of slices do you need: long and thin or slightly thicker and short? The distance between the blades mounted on a common handle depends on this.

banana knife

Anyone who has not tried to carefully cut the delicate pulp of this fruit into slices will not be able to appreciate such an original design.

By the way, they say that using this option you can also chop cucumbers, chop strawberries, kiwi, or cut sausage. Well, if you need a slicer exclusively for bananas, then this option will come in handy.

Do you have any of the items listed in this article in your kitchen? If yes, please share your impressions of working with such a tool.