Opinel Les Essentiels Primo Set - 4 pcs
Code: 279000Product detailed description
The Le Petit Chef set includes a knife, a scraper and a red finger guard.
With this Opinel set, children can cook. The Le Petit Chef collection is the perfect way to teach them. The practice ring helps them position their fingers correctly, while the finger protector protects the hand that holds the food.
Kitchen Set - Kids
Set includes: knife, scraper, finger protector
Knife steel: Sandvik stainless steel
Blade length: 10 cm with round tip
Handle: beech wood
Scraper steel: Sandvik stainless steel
Handle: beech wood
Finger protection: anti-cutting aid
Red ring serves as finger protection when slicing and to hold the knife properly.
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The first Opinel knife was made by Joseph Opinel in his father's workshop in the small village of Albiez-Le-Vieux near Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne in France. From 1896 onwards, with three employees, he produced around 60 pieces a day. By 1901, the original workshop was no longer sufficient, so Opinel built a new one, employing fifteen workers. Eight years later, Opinel registered a trademark with the company's logo: the hand with the crown (main couronnée), which has marked all knife blades ever since. The knives were first sold by travelling salesmen, and later Opinel itself began exporting its production to Belgium and Italy. In 1911, one of his knives won a gold medal at the International Exhibition in Turin.
In 1920, production expanded to a newly built factory in Cognin near Chambéry. By the beginning of the Second World War, the company had sold 20 million knives. The company is still owned today by the founder's family. There is also a museum (Le Musée de l'Opinel) in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne. The company employs around 100 people at its plants in Cognin and Chambéry and produces between four and five million knives a year.