Fresh off the line from TOPS we’ve got El Chappito, the frankly adorable, shrunk-down, EDC-sized brother of the company’s famous heavy duty cleaver.
El Chappo is a bit of a modern legend in the TOPS lineup. Designed, like many of the company’s signature blades, by TOPS CEO Leo Espinoza, El Chappo impressed not only with its obvious capability in the kitchen, but by its robust build quality that allowed it to tackle some chores not strictly speaking of a culinary bent; when we first covered El Chappo in 2018, we dubbed it an “outdoors-oriented cleaver.”
It is cute. And it looks more functional than something as small as a Minimalist cleaver. Still not going to be much of a chopper, which is the purpose of a cleaver in the first place.
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