Hyde Industrial Blade Solutions’ banana knives are very appealing to both workers and plantation owners. For one, they are manufactured from the finest high carbon and stainless steels.
As for the handles, Hyde IBS uses special hardwood and poly foam handles. The poly foam handles float which makes them perfect for use around selection tanks.
In case you are still wondering, banana knives are actually used on plantations to cut real bananas. A banana knife is different from other knives in that it has a curved blade.
The handle is shaped like any other kind of knife, but the blade is not straight. Blades range in size from two and a quarter inches to seven inches.
Banana knives must be flexible but durable. They also have to be easy to control. If they’re not easy to control, then the user may damage bananas that are still on the tree.
Hyde’s quality banana knives are easy to control and therefore minimize the amount of damaged fruit. This adds to the knives overall value. Their efficiency is good for your bottom line.
Remember, Hyde IBS has been making banana knives for years and hand knives since 1875. We pride ourselves on making the “tools of the trade.”
Here are some of the banana knives Hyde manufactures:
Hyde also makes and sells banana knife sheaths. These high quality sheaths can hold both banana and banana knife files.
Interestingly, the banana is a berry and part of the genus Musa. Bananas are grown in more than 100 countries.
In the banana world, the biggest debate is the difference between bananas and plantains?
Generally, a banana is viewed as a sweet, dessert fruit that one can eat raw. A plantain is not as soft, starchier, and is not eaten raw. Instead, plantains are used for cooking.
Chiquita, a banana distributor, markets to its North American consumers that the plantain is not a banana.
Further confusing the issue is Southeast Asia. In that part of the world, there are so many different types of bananas, many of which are both cooked and eaten raw, that the banana/plantain dichotomy does not work.
Speaking of Southeast Asia, archeologists believe the banana was first cultivated in that area, as well as Papua New Guinea, between 5000 BCE and 8000 BCE.
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