Opinel - N°225 Paring Knife Intempora – Premium Full-Tang High-Performance Precision Kitchen Knife

Opinel - N°225 Paring Knife Intempora – Premium Full-Tang High-Performance Precision Kitchen Knife

The Opinel N°225 Paring Knife Intempora is a professional-grade culinary instrument masterfully engineered to deliver absolute precision, mechanical strength, and low-maintenance reliability on your workstation. Belonging to Opinel's elite Intempora collection, this heavy-duty paring knife features a premium full-tang architecture, meaning the steel extends continuously through the entire length of the handle. This design provides exceptional physical balance, superior structural integrity, and maximum slicing leverage. Equipped with a slim, razor-sharp 7.62 cm blade and a virtually indestructible polymer handle, it effortlessly handles detailed trimming, skinning, and intricate food preparation with fluid accuracy.

Best For Professional chefs, culinary students, and meticulous home meal preppers seeking a robust, full-tang precision tool that provides exceptional wrist control for intricate peeling, close-up dicing, and delicate garnishing tasks.

Key Features

• Premium Full-Tang Architecture: The blade steel runs seamlessly through the entire polymer handle, delivering a perfectly weighted balance, professional-grade durability, and superior mechanical strength at the prep station.

• Sandvik 12C27 Swedish Stainless Steel: Forged from premium **Swedish 12C27 stainless steel**, celebrated for its elite structural purity, outstanding resistance to corrosion, and ability to hold a razor-sharp edge under heavy daily use.

• Slim 7.62 cm Precision Blade: Professionally proportioned to offer the ultimate physical leverage and tip control, making it incredibly effortless to maneuver around small fruits, seeds, and tight contours.

• Ultra-Resistant Engineered Polymer Handle: Molded from a high-density, technical polymer that provides absolute defense against extreme temperature fluctuations, chemical sanitizers, heavy impact, and kitchen moisture absorption.

• Seamless Professional Ergonomics: The contoured, polished handle profile fills the hand naturally, ensuring a highly secure, non-slip grip that significantly reduces hand fatigue during high-volume ingredient processing.

Specifications

• Blade Length: 7.62 cm (3 inches)

• Blade Profile: Slim Straight Edge Precision Paring / Drop Point Utility Profile

• Blade Construction: High-Performance Full-Tang / Forged Precision Stamped

• Blade Steel: Premium Sandvik 12C27 Modified Swedish Stainless Steel

• Handle Material: High-Density Ultra-Resistant Engineered Polymer

• Handle Type: Low-Maintenance Ergonomic Comfort Grip

• Total Size Category: Full-Scale Professional Kitchen Series

• Manufacturing Origin: Crafted by Opinel France

Ideal For (Uses)

• Detailed Hand-Peeling & Skinning: Effortlessly stripping the skin from apples, potatoes, pears, and ginger, or removing the tough papery outer layers from shallots and garlic cloves.

• Intricate Fruit & Veg Prep: Hulling fresh strawberries, coring tomatoes, scraping out pepper seeds, scoring citrus peels, or slicing small radishes with uniform precision.

• Fine Herb & Garnish Slicing: Mincing single cloves of garlic, trimming thin ribbons of chili, or shaving ginger coins to garnish finished gourmet platters.

• Delicate Prawn Deveining: Utilizing the acute, precision blade tip to cleanly slice along the back of prawns and remove veins with zero tearing of the delicate meat.

Pro Tip & Intempora Maintenance: The N°225 Intempora series represents Opinel's highest tier of kitchen durability; thanks to its advanced engineered polymer handle and premium Swedish stainless steel blade, this knife offers maximum resistance to moisture, staining, and heat. While it is highly capable of surviving occasional machine washing, hand washing is strongly recommended by professional chefs to preserve the razor sharpness of the cutting edge over the long term. Simply wash with warm, soapy water after use, dry thoroughly with a soft cloth, and store it safely in a knife block or on a magnetic rack to keep your prep station performing flawlessly!

Oversized Item Delivery Options

Oversized, heavy, and structural goods ship via specialist freight. Freight is calculated at checkout from estimated packaged volumetric or physical weight. Carrier depot audits may adjust the rate — if the increase exceeds 10%, we will contact you before processing.

Available options include:

✔ Delivery to your closest depot for pickup — default method
✔ Direct delivery — requires an operational forklift on site unless Tailgate Delivery has been specifically requested and quoted (contact us — this cannot be selected at checkout)
✔ Tailgate hydraulic lift delivery — must be specifically requested; contact us for a quote (not available as a checkout option; extra fees apply; required if you do not have a forklift)
✔ Forklift loading at our warehouse (no extra charge if you arrange your own freight)
✔ Direct truck delivery (available in Victoria)

Important Notes:

• Shipping costs vary by location and method
• Any carton or consignment over 25–30kg (or over 200cm) must be palletised
• Without a specifically requested and paid Tailgate Delivery quote, palletised freight requires a forklift on site — otherwise the carrier will redirect to the nearest depot
• Bulky and oversized items cannot be delivered to a PO Box — provide a physical street address
• Failed deliveries, locked gates, unattended sites, or incorrect business/forklift declarations may incur carrier redelivery, demurrage, and restocking fees as set out in our Terms & Conditions

Business Delivery:

• Selecting a business/commercial delivery rate warrants that the address has an operational forklift and certified operator during business hours
• If the carrier cannot unload, the consignment may be redirected to a depot and secondary fees may apply
• Additional fees may apply for failed delivery attempts due to lack of appropriate unloading equipment

See our Terms & Conditions (Article 8) for full freight and delivery rules.

Important Note on Availability & Shipping

Our warehouse is a logistics hub, not a retail showroom. Listing a product online does not mean it is stored at our Thomastown warehouse — many lines ship from supplier hubs (split fulfilment may apply).

How lead times work:

• Product page ETA: The Estimated Time of Arrival (ETA) / lead-time badge shown on the product page at checkout is the agreed delivery timeframe for that order under Australian Consumer Law.
• Metro baselines: Advertised ETAs apply to standard metropolitan zones. Regional and remote addresses may take longer and may attract surcharges.
• Peak seasons: Orders in March–May, August–October, EOFY (June), Black Friday/Cyber Monday (November), and Christmas/New Year (December–January) may automatically add a 2–4 week buffer beyond the product page ETA.
• Supplier-dependent / backordered items: If stock is delayed, we will notify you with a revised ETA. You then have 7 days to accept the new timeframe or cancel for a full refund.
• Adloheat: Custom-made products from Adloheat (Pakenham, VIC) may take 4–12 weeks depending on the order.

Full fulfilment, cancellation, and freight rules are in our Terms & Conditions.

Biosecurity & Interstate Shipping Restrictions

Due to strict state biosecurity regulations, we are unable to ship some products to certain states and territories:

• Potting Mixes cannot be shipped to Western Australia (WA), the Northern Territory (NT), or Tasmania (TAS).
• Seeds cannot be shipped to Western Australia (WA).

Orders placed for these items to restricted states will be cancelled and refunded. It is the customer's responsibility to ensure that the items being ordered can lawfully be delivered to their state or territory.