Collection: IVO 55000 Red (HACCP)

The IVO 55000 red series is a colour-coded commercial knife range with red handles, listed by Hospitality Connect with 12 items. It covers paring, cooks, butchers and boning knives plus a sharpening steel, for kitchens working to a HACCP plan.

Colour-coded knife handles let a kitchen assign a specific colour to a specific task, so staff can see at a glance whether a knife belongs to the job in front of them. It supports a HACCP plan by reducing cross-contamination between tasks.

A boning knife has a narrow blade that works close to bone, so it is used to separate meat from the carcass and to trim joints. Butchers and kitchens breaking down whole cuts use one rather than a wide cooks knife.

A paring knife has a short blade for small, controlled work such as peeling, trimming and coring, usually held in the hand. A cooks knife has a long blade for chopping, slicing and portioning on a board. Most kitchens need both.

A steel realigns a blade edge between sharpenings and keeps a knife cutting cleanly for longer. It does not replace proper sharpening, but a blunt knife takes more force and is the more dangerous one to use, so a steel is worth having.