If you need a knife for cutting cheese, then his choice should be approached responsibly, because the true cheese gourmets are sure that the taste of this delicacy is very easy to spoil. To do this, it's just wrong enough to cut it. In this material we will try to consider knife models for cutting different types of cheese, and determine which species are most useful in the farm.
Kinds of knives
The choice of knife should be based on your preferences, or rather, on the consistency of your preferred variety. Do not know how a cheese knife should look like, and how to use it? Let's understand.
There are several basic types of such knives:
- graters;
- two-handed (Dutch);
- knives with air pockets;
- knives, forks;
- slicers;
- Knives-strings (wire).
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First, you should remember that for the hardest grades of the product, only graters and slicers are used, for less hard varieties - large Dutch and all the same slicers, for cutting soft varieties it is better to get a sharp knife with air pockets, well, and for real cheese with mold - only a wire knife.
Sharp knives for cheese are specially made with air pockets, they are used for quality slicing of soft varieties. To make the slices do not lose shape, there are special grooves in the blade. The cut made with such a knife is always straight and clearly vertical.
Modern knives-slicers are used to cut hard sorts of cheese into slices. The slivers that will be obtained when cutting with this knife are literally translucent, they have exactly the same size and thickness. On many models of slicers you can adjust the thickness of the slicer.
Lovers of the roquefort will certainly need a special knife for cheese. The best thing is a string. It can have an arc-shaped handle (or two small handles) to which a string is attached. The knife-string with two handles works on the principle of strangling, it easily cuts into soft cheese. To cut varieties with mold it is necessary to have such a knife. If you cut this cheese with a conventional knife, then the structure and molds and cheese are broken.
Knives-forks are used for carrying slices and pieces from one plate to another. They can look like knives of the usual shape, and also resemble a fork with two prongs.
Very popular and two-handed knife for cheese, but very few people know that its roots are "growing" from Holland. It was in this country that it was first used to cut delicacy in large pieces, as well as to cut the heads whole.