HENCKELS Classic Razor-Sharp 4-inch Paring Knife, German Engineered Informed by 100+ Years of Mastery, Stainless Steel

Love this knife. Small enough for little jobs and also strong enough to slice an apple! I like the heft of it compared to another knife that was recommended by a well-known magazine as the top pick. This knife is the top pick for me with a seriously nice blade. The price is also fair.

Very sharp great size and quality

Awesome, sharp knife for cutting veggies. Excellent quality and very much worth every penny. Substantial weight. Highly recommend, Henckels is an excellent brand.

Great sharp knife easy to use

I hadn't planned on buying this knife this week, however someone pulled my paring knife out and (I have no clue how they did this, why, or what madness had taken over their mind) apparently used the tip to pry something? End result it's hooked and that's no good. I needed a replacement till I get home and can fix it.This one arrived with a standard paring knife right before lunch so I put it to work making a diced tomato and herb topping. The extra inch makes a good gap filler between a paring knife an using a chef's or other alternate knife when I need just a bit more. (I also purchased a paring knife from a line I didn't have from HENCKELS, made in Spain and I'm really impressed. It's heavier than my original knife and the handle is a bit different. I'll review it tomorrow. )Normally, I don't buy knives online except for utility replacements like Sani-safe general kitchen knives, though this year I've had to stock a kitchen while traveling so it's had some surprises - this is a good one.My only key piece of advice is, if the person doesn't know the value of good kitchen knives put the knife roll under your pillow.

In my misspent youth, in the early 70's, I worked for a year as a sous chef in one of the top French restaurants in the US, though my basic careers have been as a studio guitarist & a consulting programmer. But, in the restaurant, I learned from a chef de cuisine who had trained in a 2-star Michelin restaurant in France, so I learned excellent technique. He gifted me with top-line professional Henckel's 8" & 10" knives when I started, which I had until I moved last year & the movers lost the box with my knife block (sigh...). Given that my Henckel's had cost over $200 apiece 50 years ago & were still like brand new, I gave up on replacing them now. This, which I got on sale (I believe its retail price today was around $120) is the best knife I've owned outside of my professional knives. My only complaint is that it is weighted for homemaker use. A professional long-bladed knife is weighted so that the balance point is actually ahead of the tang at the first half-inch of the blade. If you grip it with thumb & forefinger at the back edge of the blade, it should balance evenly. Chefs hold their knives with the first knuckle over the tang actually on the blade (you can often tell a chef from the diagonal groove on their index fingers). When you hold a properly weighted 8" or10" knife like that, it is perfectly balanced & feels weightless. You can flute a mushroom with it as easily as with a 4" paring knife. The knife does all the work when you slice with it. This knife's balance point is behind the tang, at the point where the handle meets the tang, so holding it properly means too much of the weight of the knife is behind the blade. 99 out of 100 people have never handled a perfectly balanced knife, so won't notice this minor flaw in the knife. For them, this will still be the best knife they'll ever own & far better, sharper & easier to use than anything they can buy at any ordinary big-box store (and still MUCH cheaper than a professional knife). Go for it & enjoy. But, keep a Henckel paring knife handy to flute your mushrooms ;).

It’s an incredibly sharp knife that is just the perfect size and the quality I expect from Henckel’s!

I dropped my DIL’s 22 year old Henkel paring knife on her ceramic floor and it cracked off the lower edge of the knife. I had Loctite glass and crystal (dishwasher safe) glue and glued it back together - see pics. We never wash our knives in the DW, and neither did she, but if glue is DW safe than it has to be good. It worked great.I wanted her to have a new undamaged knife. This new one I had sent to her (in Germany) was an exact match to the set she received for a wedding gift in 2001. (I brought the broken one home with me.) She received the new knife in a less than 10 days. And it’s perfect and fits exactly in her knife block where it belongs, she reports.