Kitchen products manufacturer Nonoji will market a knife specially designed for cutting pumpkins, beginning Oct 1. The knife was specially designed to allow women and the elderly to cut through the hard vegetable with a minimum of effort.
The knife features an oval grip designed for ease of use and has a safety and a rounded point to prevent slipping and accidental injury. Retails for 3,360 yen.
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sk4ek
A pumpkin is a kabocha, but a kabocha is a squash.
Foxie
Very cute design, love the pumkin seeds on it and the colours used. Just a bit too expensive.
Gurukun
Who will be the first to use this in a crime?
genkicat
I want one of these! It's always such a mission to cut up a pumpkin in a low Japanese sink bench... ><
Patricia Yarrow
Kabocha Knife!
doombird
That's a cute knife! Still, while I agree that it is a mission, I'm a woman and cutting apart Japanese pumpkins never struck me as such a hardship that I'd go out and buy specialized equipment for it. That said, I'm sure there are lots of women who don't appreciate the extra elbow grease involved.
Sarge
My 100 yen kitchen knife cuts through pumpkins just fine. Still, I'd like to have this one!
lostrune2
They should make a pumpkin carving kit.
windandsea
Does this tool not facilitate young men cutting pumpkins with a minimum of effort? and if so, how does it distinguish the user's gender? Exactly how, or with what does one hold the knife.
YongYang
I am Prince Peter, pumpkin eater. I need no knife.
sam1633
I love the design and will purchase one as they hit the market.
Patricia Yarrow
Would be a fine Xmas present for the folks back home.
M51T
sh4ek: exactly - this knife is too short for splitting whole pumpkins. Buttercup/squash maybe.
Denis62
Not necessary IMHO. A good-quality scallop-edge Breadknife (i.e., pretty much the standard Breadknife) will easily and precisely 'crack' a pumpkin - and do so with quite a minimal amount of downward pressure. There is then no need to use a cutting action and, hence, very much less danger of slippage. But, it is a great looking knife....
Judderman
specially for women and elderly..its both sexist and ageist...
cactusJack
There is a shop in Akihabara that has a sign that reads in English "We cannot sell knives to foreigners"....I wonder if they include this cute pumpkin slasher.