Keep the Hacksaw in the Garage

Neatly slice that blushing peach or that ripe tomato bursting with juice. Cut thin rounds of firm, peppery salami. Gently quarter sea scallops. Whack wedges of lime for drinks. These and many more everyday kitchen jobs will not daunt the new French paring knives by Nogent, with handles in bathing-suit colors.

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Credit Tony Cenicola

What makes these knives unusual is that the stainless steel blades have serrations so fine as to be almost microscopic. They do not give hacksaw treatment to delicate fruits; they can handle tougher jobs, and, for those whose sharpening steels and stones simply gather dust, they require no sharpening.

Nogent paring knives are $19.95 each and come in hot pink, swimming-pool blue and grass green at Broadway Panhandler, (212) 966-3434, broadwaypanhandler.com.