MSR’s Alpine Chef’s KnifeFor years, my favorite camp-cooking knife has been a Joyce Chen paring knife with a 3-3/4″ stainless blade and a plastic handle and sheath. It did most galley jobs well enough, but I can only get three fingers on the handle, the blade doesn’t extend far enough beneath the grip for cutting-board tasks, and the sheath, while dishwasher proof, has a slot that’s scarcely a millimeter wide and impossible to clean.
The sheath's alternating openings make it easy to clean and dry its interior surfaces.
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I need a pair after losing my sunglasess to the murky deep at the local ramp …now known to Skipper as the “Rayban Ramp.”