Opinel - Parallèle Trio Knife Set – Premium 3-Piece Essential Kitchen Culinary Set

Opinel - Parallèle Trio Knife Set – Premium 3-Piece Essential Kitchen Culinary Set

The Opinel Parallèle Trio Knife Set is the definitive foundation for an elite kitchen setup, masterfully bundling three of the most crucial culinary profiles into one high-performance collection. Part of Opinel's contemporary Parallèle range, this curated trio includes a multi-use chef's knife, an agile carving knife, and a precision paring knife. Forged from high-grade European stainless steel and outfitted with beautifully contoured premium wood handles, this versatile set handles everything from heavy-duty food prep to delicate trimming, making it an exceptional upgrade for home cooks or a magnificent gift for passionate food lovers.

Best For Home chefs, culinary students, and newlyweds seeking a cohesive, high-performance core knife set that replaces cluttered cutlery blocks with three essential, razor-sharp European tools.

Key Features

• The Core Culinary Trinity: Strategically compiles the **N°118 Chef's Knife, N°120 Carving Knife, and N°126 Paring Knife**—equipping your kitchen station to conquer greater than 95% of all daily slicing, dicing, and trimming tasks.

• Premium X50CrMoV15 Stainless Steel: Every blade in this collection is forged from an elite single piece of European high-carbon steel, enriched with chrome to ensure professional-grade rigidity, high mechanical resistance, and superb anti-corrosive performance.

• Ergonomic Parallèle Design: Crafted with soft, clean, and minimalist lines, the handles are engineered to follow the natural geometry of your hand, providing a remarkably comfortable grip and excellent tactile control during long cooking sessions.

• Exquisite Timber Variants: Elevate your countertop aesthetic with a choice of two stunning timber handle options—the timeless, fine-grained durability of traditional **Beechwood**, or the deeply characterful, swirling grain of luxury Mediterranean **Olive Wood**.

• Gift-Ready Presentation: Beautifully displayed in a premium, elegant windowed box that showcases the knives clearly, making it an impressive choice for milestone housewarmings, weddings, or holiday gifts.

Specifications

• Set Quantity: 3 Premium Culinary Knives

• Blade Material: Premium X50CrMoV15 Stainless Steel

• Handle Material: Sustainably Sourced French Beechwood or Luxury Mediterranean Olive Wood

• Available Finishes: Beech, Olive

• Manufacturing Origin: Crafted by Opinel France

Set Inclusions & Ideal Uses

• N°118 Multi-Use Chef's Knife (20 cm Blade): The heavy-duty workhorse of the set. Features a wide, rigid profile optimized for large-scale ingredient processing, splitting dense root vegetables, dicing onions, and rhythmically mincing fresh garden herbs.

• N°120 Precision Carving Knife (16 cm Blade): Engineered with a narrower, nimble blade geometry designed specifically for slicing clean, uniform portions of roasted poultry, slicing through flank steaks, or neatly trimming fat caps off pork loins.

• N°126 Precise Paring Knife (8 cm Blade): The ultimate detailed prep tool. Perfect for close-up hand work, such as hulling strawberries, coring apples, deveining prawns, or creating delicate decorative garnishes for charcuterie boards.

Pro Tip & Care Guidance: To preserve the original structural integrity, rich timber depth, and mechanical longevity of these premium wood handles, always avoid the dishwasher and never leave your knives submerged in a wet kitchen sink. Simply hand-wash the stainless steel blades with warm, soapy water after meal prep, wipe them completely dry immediately with a soft towel, and store them safely away on a magnetic knife strip or block. An occasional light coat of food-safe mineral oil on the beech or olive wood handles will keep this heirloom culinary set performing flawlessly for a lifetime!

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.