The Messermeister Meridian Elite Serrated Utility Knife features a thin straight blade with a scalloped flat camber and a round tip that is ideal for cutting small bakery items such as cakes, bagels and breads. Designed for slicing smooth skin fruit or vegetables and encased tubes of meat. The serration points bite into the skin, gain traction and quickly slice through the skin and into the soft skin fruits and vegetables or processed meat. Messermeister Meridian Elite knives are one-piece, hot-drop hammer forged from a single billet of the finest German stainless steel alloy and outfitted with the most durable industrial strength handle in the world. Messermeister Meridian Elite knives are handcrafted one at a time using the same techniques that have been the hallmark of fine Solingen made cutlery for hundreds of years. Messermeister Meridian Elite knives are simply the best original forged knives made in Germany.