Cheese knife

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A cheese knife is a type of kitchen knife specialized for cutting cheese. The non-sticky characteristics of a cheese knife also makes them useful for cutting other sticky foods, such as cakes, eggs, and pies.

[edit] Design

Cheese knives have several unusual characteristics which make them ideal for cutting cheese.

The shape is unusual. Most knives have a blade that is wide at the base and tapers to the tip. A cheese knife, on the other hand, is similar to a cleaver in that it starts out thinner at the handle and then gets wider away from the base.

Furthermore, cheese knives are designed to deal with the stickiness of cheese. The cheese should not stick to the blade so that the pieces of cheese may be presented more attractively, with crisper shapes. First, the blades of cheese knives are usually made of a material, such as stainless steel, which is resistant to the stickiness of cheese. Second, a cheese knife often has holes in the blade. This also helps prevent the cheese from sticking to the blade.