What's a good folding "avocado" knife for slicing and de-pitting?

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Hi All,
So other than letter opening, the only other use i can think of is if i want to bring an Avocado to work, then i need a knife to undertake this food.
I'd prefer a folding knife for the task, as its compact, but i understand that a fixed blade may be better as the avocado food parts won't "goo up" the mechanism and stick to internal parts.
Almost any folding knife can do the initial slicing part.
But what folding knife would have a blade heavy enough to lodge in the pit when i whack it with the knife?
Are there certain steels i should be looking at? Perhaps more towards stainless steels or are there any other food-grade steels?
Is there a minimum knife weight i should be looking at?
Is there a certain knife blade shape that is best suited for this job?

Thanks in advance for all knife recommendations!

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Any decent knife should be fine for this, it's just avocado pits, you don't necessarily need a "heavy" blade. Also, gumming up the knife pivot is overblown alot of the time imo. I've had knives buried in sand that made little noticeable difference to the action. If you get avocado slime in it just run it under the sink. No biggie..

I'd just go for something in the 3 to 3.5 inch range, 4+ is fine if you just want a bigger knife, but thats not needed imo. Probably stainless although carbon steel would be fine too as long as you don't mind maintaining it.

For your specific use, opening letters and chopping avocado pits, I'd just go for something cheap unless your just wanting to spend money.. Plenty of good cheap folders coming out in 14c28n nowadays that should be plenty tough for what your doing.
 
I would say pretty much anything that was suggested. I'm thinking something with an open design with minimal back spacers would be good for washing out the avocado. I think a frame lock would be pretty easy to clean.
 
I agree, many a knife would do the job.

But for me, there are safer ways to remove the pit than the one illustrated.
 
I used the Swiss army sentinel (non serrated) for this.

It is an easy to clean simple knife that is very stainless. So you can generally wash it and then jam it back in the pocket.

Avocado, those sheets of salmon and a tub of store bought salad.
 
Victorinox folding paring/fruit knife. No need tl whack the stone. Cut the cado to quarters and rotate.
 
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