Le Petit Chef Complete 3 Piece Kitchen Set, Chef Knife with Rounded Tip, Fingers Guard, Peeler, For Children and Teaching Food Prep and Kitchen Safety, Made in France (GREEN)

About this item

MONTESSORI TOOLS FOR THE KITCHEN: Outfitted with natural, sustainably harvested beechwood handles, Le Petit Chef Set is a safety conscious kit made for little hands to learn proper kitchen skills. Real experience for real chefs in training
LEARNING BY DOING: Kids learn best hands on, and with Le Petit Chef, your little kitchen helpers can learn about knife safety, food prep, and more with your peace of mind intact. Tools made for small hands by world class knife makers.
CHEF KNIFE: Rounded tip blade reduces accidental punctures but cuts and chops just like a full size chef blade. Knife is sharp on blade edge, and must be used with adult supervision (this may become your new favorite chef knife, too!)
FINGER GUARD: A perfect addition to the Chef Knife, the fingers guard keeps little fingers safe and teaches proper technique when chopping veggies, fruits, or doing meal prep
PEELER: Rounding out Le Petit Chef set is the single finger-pulled peeler, perfect for peeling veggies, fruits, and other prep work. With single handed control, helpers keep their fingers safe and learn proper technique

• Cheryl Davis

  There isn't anything that I dislike about the product. I purchased this product for my six year-old grandson who watches the British Baking shows, especially the Junior Baking Show (JBO) with me and thinks he can cook and bake like the rest of them...LOL. His first creation was cheese rolls with a dipping sauce. He also used his utensils to help me prepare Christmas dinner. My little sous chef!

• Mary

  These were easy and safe for my not quite five year old grandson to use. We made mashed potatoes and he was very proud and very pleased with himself!❤️

• Brandon

  This set is very sturdy and great for little hands. Easy to use for kids and even adults. I’ve had opinel pocket knives so I was expecting the same quality for this kitchen set. And it is! It is cute and inviting for the kids.

• S

  My seven year old loves to cook in the kitchen with me, so I got him this set to start learning some knife skills without the worry of him seriously injuring himself. The knife is nice quality with a wooden handle and washes well. The finger guard is a little awkward for him to use and still have a good grip on what he's cutting, so we don't use it too much. Peeler is good quality also. We've been working on mainly cutting fruits and vegetables, apples, carrots, peppers, ect., so can't speak on how well it would do with meats or cheeses. Although this set was a little more than I wanted to spend, I'm very happy with my purchase.

• Norma

  My son loves to help prep for dinner. This safety knife eases my stress and helps him learn proper knife techniques

• Regan Blackwood

  I’m so happy with this purchase! My ten year old diced onions and made risotto for dinner tonight! I used the knife to demonstrate the first onion half, and would say it is a nice little size for a petite adult doing small slicing tasks and a great size for a ten year old. I probably wouldn’t use the finger guards for most chopping, but for especially slippery surfaces like an onion or apple it does a great job of preventing nasty finger slices. I also like the blunt tip which helps as kids are developing spatial awareness of where their blade is. It’s not a razor sharp knife, but it isn’t dull either (10 yr old had to exert some strength to slice the onion, but it was easy for me).

• The Merry's

  This is a perfect set for kids. My daughter can use the knife so easily with the handle. I do wish the shield was more flexible, it's a hard plastic so it is hard for her to use on most items being cut.

• Christopher M Sullivan

  Good quality knife and my 6year old is loving that she can help in the kitchen. The finger hairs makes her feel reassured and safe and the fact it is a real sharp knife means that it works easy and well.

• J S.

  I purchased this for a friend's 7 year old to use to start helping out in the kitchen and to learn to be more comfortable cutting veggies. That said I think the blade/handle size of the knife is very appropriate as was the blunted tip. From a safety and design/concept standpoint I think this is pretty good. The finger holes are a good idea to train finger placement on the handle, too. I think the separate hand guard is also a really great idea and is a good size for a range of kids' hands.Unfortunately, as I am finding with Opinel's products in general, the quality control is fairly lacking. I was glad I opened the set first to inspect it. The chef's knife was actually not properly de-burred along its entire edge, and I could grossly feel it sweeping my fingers along one side. It was a huge burr and made me feel like whoever made/inspected the blade was really lazy (Opinel claims to have everything that leaves the factory inspected by a person). The blade was easy to deburr manually, which speaks to the softer type of steel (which is fine since this is for kids), but after de-burring the blade wasn't really all that sharp at all. The burr actually came off as little thin wires or little flakes of metal, which I can't imagine is appetizing if it came off into the food you were cutting...Dullness: I guess this is where there is room for debate, but I am from the school of thought that a dull knife is much more dangerous than a sharp knife. This knife is much too dull to be safe out of the box.If a kid were to use the blade at the level of factory dullness, they could easily need lots of downward force cutting, say, a carrot, and slip and hurt themselves. I get not having it be razor sharp so it doesn't laser through fingers, but it should actually be sharp enough to slice through veggies without slipping or requiring lots of force to get through them. Moreover, it's not a toy, it's an introductory tool that should be used under parental supervision anyway, and so it should have the capability of doing what it is meant to do, which is to cut food (safely).I'm an experienced sharpener at this point and so it wasn't hard to sharpen the blade before giving this to a friend to try with their kids, but that isn't the case for the vast majority of people who will open the kit and try it out right away with their families. I think they need to really revisit their quality control as it has implications on the safety of the product. Leaving such a huge and easily removable burr on a blade being used for food is also a little disturbing to me, as the implication is that people might inevitably ingest the small metal fragments coming off the blade if they just use the blade out of the box. See above for discussion on sharpness.If you're experienced with knives and handling/sharpening knives, then this is fine to introduce to your kids. If not, I wouldn't recommend this set right out of the box with the way Opinel's quality control is.

• Jr Carlson

  Gift. I received 2 and only ordered 1. I don't like that there was no packing slip to show what I ordered. Hopefully I was not charged for the extra one.