Shun paring

Here’s something most home cooks don’t realize: 80% of your kitchen prep work can be done with a 3.5-inch blade. Peeling apples. Hulling strawberries. Deveining shrimp. Segmenting citrus. Trimming silver skin from pork tenderloin. Coring tomatoes. Precisely cutting tape on food packaging. The humble paring knife handles all of it — and yet most people…