A question for knife experts

[LoisWakeman]

When I was a student, I bought a handy little knife, very cheaply. It was sold as a boning knife. The stainless blade was about 10cm long, with parallel sides and a triangular tip. The blade's cross-section was like a thin lozenge, and the entire edge was serrated.

I used it happily till last week for all sorts of stuff, but then it vanished. I guess it went to the dump in a rubbish sack or got buried in the compost heap or stolen by magpies.

I want to replace it, but cannot find anything like it - boning knives these days seem to be long strong-spined single-edge steel blades and quite costly!

Does anyone know what I'm on about and what I should be Googling for?

[ktinkel]

Originally Posted by LoisWakeman

When I was a student, I bought a handy little knife, very cheaply. It was sold as a boning knife. The stainless blade was about 10cm long, with parallel sides and a triangular tip. The blade's cross-section was like a thin lozenge, and the entire edge was serrated.
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I want to replace it, but cannot find anything like it - boning knives these days seem to be long strong-spined single-edge steel blades and quite costly!

Does anyone know what I'm on about and what I should be Googling for?

It sounds like a nifty knife — wouldn’t mind having one myself — but I have never seen anything like that, except maybe a grapefruit knife (and that has a curved bit at the end of the blade). Boning knives usually are thin and tapered, but that would be a kitchen (or butcher shop) kind of knife. I poked around looking at hunting and fishing knives, thinking it might be for boning game, but no luck.

What you describe almost sounds like a tomato knife. And in fact, by searching for serrated utility knife, I did find one called a tomato knife from Knife Zone. Pretty sure that isn’t your knife, but that is an interesting site, with many lines of knifes (most either cooking or hunting, however), as well as a throwing knife and a sword rack and other odds and ends.

Let me know how you fare. I love useful knives myself, and recently I lost one of my favorites — like yours, I suppose it got tossed out with the trash by mistake.

[LoisWakeman]

Ah: we still have our tomato knife and use it almost every day - very much like the one you found.

I have seen grapefruit knives - but this mystery one had a flat blade.