Opinel - N°312 Paring Knife Essentiels+ – Premium Low-Maintenance Precision Kitchen Paring Knife

Opinel - N°312 Paring Knife Essentiels+ – Premium Low-Maintenance Precision Kitchen Paring Knife

The Opinel N°312 Paring Knife Essentiels+ is an incredibly agile, high-utility culinary instrument masterfully engineered for absolute precision and low-maintenance longevity in the kitchen. Featuring a razor-sharp 9.5 cm smooth stainless steel blade, this essential tool belongs to Opinel’s advanced Essentiels+ collection, which updates classic French utility with modern, high-durability materials. Outfitted with a vibrant, moisture-resistant polymer handle, it delivers maximum tip control and physical leverage, making it effortless to execute close-up peeling, trimming, coring, and intricate slicing on your workstation.

Best For Home cooks, busy family kitchens, and meal preppers seeking a razor-sharp, ultra-durable paring knife that provides exceptional grip control and can handle daily washing without fading or absorbing moisture.

Key Features

• Nimble 9.5 cm Precision Blade: Professionally proportioned to provide the ultimate physical leverage and tip control, making it incredibly effortless to maneuver around small fruits, seeds, and tight produce contours.

• Fibre-Reinforced Polymer Handle: Molded from a high-density, technical polymer that provides absolute defense against moisture absorption, dirt, household chemicals, and kitchen temperature fluctuations.

• Vibrant High-Visibility Colors: Brighten up your knife block and prevent kitchen cross-contamination with three striking color choices—available in **Blue**, **Green**, or **Red**.

• High-Performance Stainless Steel: Forged from premium European stainless steel, offering outstanding edge retention combined with remarkable resistance to rust, staining, and organic food acids.

• Seamless French Craftsmanship: Carrying forward more than 130 years of elite Opinel toolmaking tradition, this paring knife brings timeless alpine reliability and elegant functional design directly to your kitchen countertop.

Specifications

• Blade Length: 9.5 cm

• Handle Length: 10.5 cm

• Overall Length: 19.0 cm

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

• Blade Material: High-Performance Corrosion-Resistant Stainless Steel

• Handle Material: Fibre-Reinforced Engineered Polymer

• Blade Construction: Rigid Fixed Blade / Precision Stamped

• Available Colours: Blue, Green, Red

• Manufacturing Origin: Crafted by Opinel France

Ideal For (Uses)

• Detailed Fruit & Veg Prep: The ultimate choice for slicing fresh apples for a pie, hulling strawberries, coring tomatoes, scraping out pepper seeds, and slicing small radishes with uniform precision.

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

• Nimble Mushroom Cleaning: Perfectly proportioned to cleanly trim down woody stems, scrape away grit, and quarter delicate mushroom caps without tearing the flesh.

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

Pro Tip & Care Guidance: The N°312 Essentiels+ series represents a major leap in everyday convenience; thanks to its advanced fibre-reinforced polymer handle and premium stainless steel blade, this knife resists dirt and moisture far better than traditional timber handles. While this technical construction makes it highly resistant to the damp environment of a modern kitchen, hand washing is still recommended by culinary experts to preserve the razor-sharp cutting edge over the long term. Simply hand-wash the blade with warm, soapy water after meal prep, dry it completely with a soft towel, and store it safely in a knife block or drawer dock.

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.