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The first part of the cheese knife guide is about the knives for Soft Cheese.
If you want a knife for slicing soft cheeses, then a Soft Cheese knife is one of the solutions for you.
This knife comes with a flat head. The blade of the knife has holes so that the cheese it chops does not stick onto it.
As a result, this knife can chop without damaging the shape of the soft cheese. The holes over its blade also help you to wipe the juicy cheese from the knife easily.
The pronged knife has a tip like a fork. The rest resembles closely to a soft cheese knife. The benefit a Pronged knife offers is, you can chop a soft cheese or semi-soft / semi-hard cheese. Also, you can pick up the slices using the forks head as well.
As the name suggests, a Slim Blade Knife comes up with a narrow surface and sharp edge. So it can easily get through sticky cheese.
The knife handle is raised higher from the bolster of the blade. So, your knuckles don’t hit the ground as the knife reaches the bottom.
Cheese wire is saw-shaped and attached to a board. Its thin string is used to slice delicate soft cheese so that the shape of the cheese remains the same. You can use harp wire as the Alternative for the cheese wire.
Flat Knife works a little differently than the others. Its sharp edge is at the vertical top. You can press the cheese rather than chop it. You can cut thick-soft, semi-hard, hard cheeses with ease. Also, you can spread the soft cheeses with it.
Also identified as the Trapezium knife. This one is used for cutting or chipping hard, semi-hard cheeses. It has a rectangular shape starting from the handle with two sharp edges.
Teardrop knife, Almond knife, Spade knife, Heart knife, Bell Knife, whatever name you have heard are all the same knife. That is a Parmigiano Knife. Professional chefs use it for shoving & breaking pieces off the hard cheeses.
A Cheese Cleaver or Cheddar Knife is specially used to chop the hard cheeses. This knife comes with such a shape to allow its user to use both hands on both ends. This way, you can press the knife downward with even force all over the cheese. And so, you can cut hard cheeses uniformly.
This one is a large knife with two handles on either end. It works the same way you could use the Cleaver knife to chop a hard cheese. But this knife is good at cutting the hard cheeses only.
The Girolle is a unique cheese tool and is only used for Tête de Moine. Tête de Moine is a cylinder shaped hard cheese.
Girolle has a stand at the center like a big fat nail and a wheel that circles. The bottom part of that wheel is flat, sharp, and does the main work of shaving the cheese.
First, you have to remove the rind. Because it is not worth eating, just potato peels. After that, you will need to pierce the cheese through the sharp stand at the center, using uniform pressure. Then, you’ll place the wheel over the cheese, press, twirl to get the cheese cut and ready to enjoy.
Cheese Fork is used to pick up sliced pieces from hard cheese, serving and picking up the pieces to clear around the cheese and chop some more. You can also use it to break pieces out of cheese.
Cheese Plane helps you to cut the thinnest layer from the cheese. It has a triangular shape. The blade comes with a sharp edge at the front and a keen rectangular hole in the middle.
This unique design allows you to press the knife into the cheese or shave off the layer from above. The Triangular shape acts as a tray for the cut piece.
Also known as Spatula knife. The dull edge makes it more of a spoon than a knife. It comes in serving creamy cheeses that are hardly possible to slice. So, use it to pick up cheese and spread it over bread or other dishes, just like you do with the butter or jelly from the glass Jar.
Similar to Cheese Spreader. But the Gorgonzola knife has got a sharp edge, unlike Cheese Spreader. Gorgonzola can also serve thicker, creamy cheeses that need chopping to pick up. So as you can understand, buying a Gorgonzola rather than a Cheese Spreader is better.
