Choose & Use Guide

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Homemaker or Basic Pieces

  • Cutco Paring Knife

    2 3/4" Paring Knife

    Peeling and paring small fruits and veggies. Taking the tops off strawberries and slicing bananas. Remember “Pare in the air.” This is meant to be used in your hand, not on the cutting board.

  • Sliced tomatoes on a white cutting board next to whole tomatoes on the vine, with a knife placed on a turquoise cloth.

    Trimmer

    Many of our customers favorite utility knife. Citrus fruit like lemons, limes, and oranges. Slicing tomatoes and other small veggies.

  • Sliced tomatoes, a sandwich with mayonnaise, slices of cheese, ham, and lettuce on a plate, a bread roll with ham, cheese, and lettuce, a small bowl of mayonnaise, and a knife on a white cutting board.

    Spatula Spreader

    Spread peanut butter and jelly and cut the sandwich all with the same tool. Ice your cake, cut it, and serve with the flexibility of the blade. Bagels, cakes, brownies, sandwiches, and avocados.

  • Petite Carver

    Petite Carver

    Your small carving knife. Slicing medium sized cooked meats such as picanha, tri-tip, roast beef, london broil, and rotisserie chicken.

  • A fork with a black handle on a wooden surface next to a plate with two strips of cooked bacon.

    Turning Fork

    3 pronged turning, serving, and carving fork.

  • Chopped red onions and fresh herbs on a white cutting board with a large kitchen knife on a turquoise cloth on a gray countertop.

    Petite Chef

    Your go-to chopping knife. Used in an upo and down motion rather than sawing. Chop your onions, celery, herbs, potatoes, etc with this classic. Not designed for meat.

  • Sliced bread with cheese, butter slices, and a bread knife on a kitchen countertop.

    9 3/4" Slicer

    Your bread knife. Hot bread right out of the oven, cakes, and whole heads of lettuce.

  • A serrated steak knife with a black handle and three rivets, pointed toward left, on a wooden surface next to a tray of sliced cooked meat.

    Butcher Knife

    Use this to slice whole cuts of raw meat like beef tenderloin, rib loins or separating a whole chicken.

  • A carving knife with a white blade and black handle resting on a wooden surface next to a tray of roasted chicken.

    9" Carver

    Your meat carving knife. Carve your turkeys, hams, and briskets with this knife and keep your meat juicy and not shredded.

  • A carving fork next to slices of ham on a white plate placed on a wooden surface.

    Carving Fork

    Your go-to strong and sharp carving fork

Signature or Family Pieces

  • Tomatoes, various cheeses including brie and a block with a marbled appearance, a cheese knife, and a blue napkin on a gray surface.

    Traditional Cheese Knife

    Our most popular single selling knife. The wholes are there to prevent sticking of cheese and other foods. This one is great for cheese, potatoes, lemons, limes, pepperoni, salami and all of your charcuterie needs.

  • Fresh Brussels sprouts, ginger, garlic cloves, and garlic cloves on a cutting board with a kitchen knife, blue towel nearby.

    5" Petite Santoku

    The mini chopper. We combined the function of a chef knife with the weight and feel of a small utility knife. Use this for small onions, bell peppers, herbs and other veggies.

  • Sliced pepperoni, cheese, and crackers on a cutting board with a chef's knife on a blue napkin.

    Hardy Slicer

    Thick, heavy, AKA the bad boy in the kitchen. This has a Double D edge (serrated) and is great for semi-frozen meat, separating chicken wings, slicing bbq ribs, cubing chuck roast or pork butt and all of your heavy duty jobs.

  • Super Shears

    These are SUPER shears, not kitchen shears. Use them for everything in and outside of your kitchen. Trimming broccoli, snipping your cilantro or parlsey, opening up boxes, tough plastic packaging and arts and crafts.

Ultimate or Complete Pieces

  • A plate of sliced bananas, an unpeeled banana, a bowl of oatmeal with banana slices and cinnamon, a knife, and a blue placemat on a gray table.

    7" Santoku

    Asian inspired chef knife. Chop, dice, mince with this versatile knife.

  • Eggplant and sliced eggplants on a cutting board with a chef's knife and a blue napkin nearby.

    Vegetable Knife

    Squash, sweet potatoes, ginger, all of your root veggies and great for smashing garlic then dicing it.

  • A meat cleaver knife lying on a wooden surface next to a tray with raw beef cuts.

    Cleaver

    Do you grill meat and chop it? This is the ONLY knife to use. Makes chopping skirt steak, flank steak, and chicken thighs a breeze. Your BBQ best friend.

  • Boning Knife

    Your raw meat trimming knife. Butterfly pork chops or chicken breasts. This one makes trimming your raw chicken breast super easy. No better knife for any raw meat trimming or slicing.

  • Raw bagels, sliced salmon, sliced tomatoes, and fresh herbs on a kitchen countertop.

    Salmon/Melon Knife

    By far our best knife for watermelon and cantaloupe.

  • Sliced loaf of white bread, a stick of unsalted butter, a bread knife, and a blue napkin on a gray surface.

    7 3/4" Petite Slicer

    Small bread knife.

  • Colorful bell peppers and a knife on a blue napkin

    4" Paring Knife

    Peel and pare on your hand but have the ability to use on the cutting board and go through larger things like apples and pears.

Complimentary Pieces

  • A kitchen knife on a wooden surface next to halved grapefruits on a white plate.

    Santoku Trimmer

    Cutco’s new version of the trimmer with athicker blade. Tomatoes, citrus fruit and more.

  • Half of a papaya on a gray cutting board, a serrated knife with a black handle nearby, and a white bowl with chopped papaya pieces. A blue and white striped cloth is partially visible.

    8" Santoku Carver

    Slice cooked meats like pot roast, tri tip, pork tenderloin, and rotisserie chicken.

  • Sliced purple cabbage and shredded cabbage on a cutting board with a knife, and a partial cut of a green and white cabbage at the top.

    10" Santoku Slicer

    The longest slicing knife Cutco makes. Brisket, turkey, prime rib roast, etc

  • Bird's Beak Paring Knife

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  • Fresh strawberries on a white cutting board with a knife, some sliced, on a gray countertop. A bowl of whole strawberries and a jar of strawberry jam are also visible.

    3" Gourmet Paring Knife

  • Half an avocado on a cutting board and a knife on a wooden surface.

    4" Gourmet Paring Knife

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  • A metal kitchen knife with a black handle resting on a wooden surface next to sliced peaches on a plastic tray.

    Santoku Paring Knife

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  • Sliced broccoli florets on a cutting board with a serrated knife, cauliflower on the side, and a blue cloth in the background.

    Gourmet Prep Knife

    The pointy version of the Hardy Slicer.

  • An assortment of cheeses, sliced and whole, on a cutting board, with a cheese knife resting on the board. A package of cheddar cheese, cured pepperoni slices, and crispy potato chips are also visible.

    Santoku Cheese Knife

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  • A cheese and charcuterie board with assorted cheeses, slices of cheese, and a plate of cured meat and crackers, with a cheese knife on a gray countertop.

    Mini Cheese Knife

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