Every cheese has unique physical properties, so using cheese knives is essential in keeping the texture of the cheese intact and ultimately its taste, even after the cheese is cut. So for every cheese, we have a different knife for cutting. Know the different uses of cheese knives to cut your cheese efficiently without tampering with its texture and flavors.

Cheese Plane
This spatula-like knife has a razor on the front side. It is used for peeling uniform and thin slices of cheese from a large cheese block. Cheese plane is always coupled with a cheese fork for serving slices of cheese at the dinning table. Hard cheeses are more flavorful when they are cut in thin slices. Cheese plane does the perfect job of delivering cheese slices with its original taste.

Cheese Cleaver
Cheese Cleaver is like a regular knife used for mincing ginger or garlic in kitchen. It is sharp and used for cutting cubes of cheese for a cheese platter or salad.

Hard Cheese Kknife
Hard cheese knife has got holes inside the blade that allows air to pass through while cutting the cheese. It prevents the knife from sticking while the cheese is sliced. The tip of this cheese knife has a fork like shape used for serving cheeses of soft varieties. Cheeses that stick while cutting with cheese plane should be cut with hard cheese knife.

Global Cheese Knife
Global cheese knife is designed to cut cheeses of semi soft variety as well as hard cheeses and block type cheeses. Hence it is called global cheese knife. It has got a serrated edge that enables cutting semi soft cheeses. Its full blade side enables cutting hard and blocks type cheeses. Its tip has twin prongs for serving cut cheese.

Double Handle Cheese Knife
This cheese knife is mainly used by chefs and cheese mongers for cutting big cheese wheels. Mainly used for diving a big wheel of cheese into two equal halves that cannot be done by any other cheese knife.

Mini Double Handle Cheese knife
This miniature version of double handle cheese knife is used for cutting small cheese wheels.

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