MOST VALUABLE KITCHEN TOOL

Paring knives may often get overlooked in the kitchen for their flashy big brothers—chef ’s knives—but like EDCs, they’re there when you need them most and there’s one for every type of user.

TOPS Knives embraces the paring knife market in conjunction with its Dicer line of kitchen knives. “We noticed, in the process of wanting to design a kitchen knife, that there were some amazing U.S.-made custom kitchen knives, but there weren’t many high-quality domestically made production kitchen knives,” TOPS spokesperson Jeremiah Heffelfinger observed. “Th is was a void that we were more than happy to fill, especially with the plan for a full line of kitchen knives in the near future.”

A design contest between the staff of TOPS Knives in 2017 yielded the Dicer, an 8-inch chef ’s knife. TOPS President Leo Espinoza designed a companion paring knife. The Dicer 3, released