The Best #15 cheese knives of 2020 | Exclusive guide of best ever cheese knife

The cheese knife is a knife which is specially made for cutting cheese only. My you use cheese knife before but might you don’t know which cheese knife made for what type of cheese. 

A quality and correct cheese the knife is very important to serve a proper cheese to our guest because According to dining etiquette single cheese knife should not be used on more than one cheese type, each cheese knife performs a purpose and was built to perform it well.

Do you know correct knife for your cheese?

I prepared a full guide to help you use the proper cheese knife for the cheese you are planning to serve your guest. Also, you find here all type of cheese knives, their size and their use. 

First, you have to know how cheese is categorized by its texture to know the better way about cheese knives.

Categorized of cheese by its texture:-

Soft cheese

This type of cheese is usually eaten fresh or can be mature 10 to 30 days.

Softcheeseare Brie, Feta, Camembert, Danish blue, Ricotta, Neufchatel etc. 

Semi-soft cheese

These cheeses have high moisture content and tend to be mild-tasting.

Few semi-soft pieces of cheese are Havarti, Munster

Semi-hard to medium-hard cheese

Cheeses that range in texture from semi-hard to medium-hard these cheeses have strong aromatic and sharp flavours.

Semi-hard to medium-hard cheeses include Gouda, Emmenthal, Gruyere, Edam, Jarlsberg, Cantal.

Hard cheese

Harder cheese has lower moisture content than softer cheese. They are generally packed into moulds under more pressure and aged for a longer time thanks to the soft cheeses.

Hard cheeses are Grana Padano, Parmesan or Pecorino 

Soft cheese knife 

A soft cheese knife has holes in the bled to keep soft cheese from sticking due to the minimal surface area. You can also use the holes to push pieces off of the knife.

Characteristic: Share edge, Holes in the blade

Cheese hardness: Sift to semi-soft

Classic cheeses: Brie, Fresh Mozzarella, Feta, Buratta.

Cheese spreader

A cheese spreader is also known as a spatula knife. This knife is made for applying cheese spread onto bread, toast and crackers.

Characteristic: Dull edge, rounded blade

Cheese hardness: Soft and creamy

Classic cheeses: Beurre de barrette, Philadelphia, Brie-petit, Mascarpone.

Gorgonzola knife

This is same as a cheese spreader, gorgonzola cheese knife is made for creamy cheese spreader but this knife has a sharp blade to cut through cheese rind.

Characteristic: Rounded blade with one sharp edge

Cheese hardness: Soft, semi-soft and crumbly

Classic cheeses: Gorgonzola, Blue cheese.

Pronged cheese knife

The pronged cheese knife is also known as a forked-tipped spear. This is a multipurpose tool that allows you to cut a piece of cheese and then picks it up with the prongs at the end for serving or plating. The narrow blade offers a minimal surface area so soft cheese doesn’t stick.

Characteristic: Upward-curled narrow bled, sharp edge pronged end

Cheese hardness:  Semi-soft and Semi-hard.

Classic cheeses: Brie, Emmenthal, Cheddar.

Slim blade cheese knife

This knife has a very little surface area to prevent soft cheese from sticking to the blade. Itis typically offset from the handle to a provided room for the user'shand to keep the knuckles from hitting the board.

Characteristic: Thin narrow bled, sharp edge, raided handle

Cheese hardness: Soft to Semi-hard.

Classic cheeses: Camembert, Boursault

Flat cheese knife

This flat cheese knife is also known as chisel knife. This knife used to cutter cheese slice by holding the blade vertically over the cheese and pushing downward. You can cut more even pieces with the sharp edge of this knife.

Characteristic: Wide flat paddle-like a blade and sharp bottom edge

Cheese hardness: Semi-Soft to Semi-hard.

Classic cheeses: Provolone, Swiss, Gruyere

Narrow plane knife

This knife also knows as a trapezium knife. This is similar to the flat cheese knife but tends to before rectangular in shape and features two sharp sides as opposed to one.

Characteristic: Narrow blade, both the short edge and long edge are sharp

Cheese hardness: Semi-Soft to Hard

Classic cheeses: Gouda, cheddar, Emmenthal.

Cheddar cheese knife

This knife resembles like a mini cleaver, cheddar cleaver and semi-hard cheese knife. This knife used to make to cut semi-hard cheeses. The wide blade and cleaver shape allows the cutter to use force and balance push down and cut a slice. The placement of the handle keeps your knuckles from hitting the board.

Characteristic: Wide rectangular blade, long edge sharp, ergonomic handle

Cheese hardness: Semi-hard to Hard

Classic cheeses: Gruyere, Cheddar, Fontina

Parmesan knife

This knife has pointed edge made for breaking off chunks of hard and dry cheese. It has a sharp edge to cut rinds open of parmesan cheese.

Parmesan knife came two different styles:

1.  Bell cheese knife which has an arrowhead-shaped blade
2.  Compact cheese knife which has shark tooth resembles the blade

Both style parmesan cheese knife performs the same function when cutting cheese.

Characteristic: Sharp-pointed tip, triangular stubby blade, sharp long edge

Cheese hardness: Hard

Classic cheeses: Parmesan, Pecorino, Grana Padano

Hard cheese knife

This cheese knife is the largest cheese knife you will find. This knife is made for pressing downward and cutting through a whole wheel or wedge of aged head cheese to form smaller portions. You can find hard cheese knife with both side Handel which allow for even pressure distribution.

Characteristic: Long straight blade, sharp edge, one or two handles

Cheese hardness: Hard

Classic cheeses: Extra mature cheddar, Provolone, Asiago.

Cheese wire

Cheese wire or a bow cheese knife is made for cutting delicate soft cheese without crushing them or spreading them too far. These knives are looking like a small bow or bow can be attached with aboard can be made of wood, metal or stone. The wire should be lowered down mentally throw the cheese and leaving a clean slice behind.

Characteristic: Metal wire bow or attached with board

Cheese hardness: soft

Classic cheeses: Mozzarella, Ricotta, Feta

Cheese plane

This cheese plane is specially made for cutting thinly sliced pieces of cheese. For slicing, cheese passes the plane along the top or side the cheese. The slice will then settle on the top of the planes spatula-like structure, making it easy to plate or serve.

Characteristic: Spatula like a paddle with a sharp edge slit

Cheese hardness: Semi-soft to Semi-hard

Classic cheeses: Gauda, Havarti, Gruyere 

Cheese rind cutter

The rind cutter has a pointed tip that is made to cut the rind of hard cheeses, making it easier to open like parmesan cheese to cut the rind of cheese pierce the rind at one edge and drag it neatly across the surface of the rind.

Characteristic: Pointed downward tip, sharp edge

Cheese hardness: Hard 

Classic cheeses: Parmigiano Reggiano, Grana Padano

Cheese grater

The cheese grater is used to shreds all type of cheeses. They will typically have a razor on more than one side of it to produce different size shreds when a block of cheese is pressed down against the grooves. 

Characteristic: Several sharp razors on fat plane

Cheese hardness: Semi-hard to Hard 

Classic cheeses: Parmigianino Reggiano, Grana Padano

Cheese fork

Cheese fork is an excellent tool for picking cheese from cheese board or platter. It also can use to cut cheeses like parmesan cheese.

Characteristic: Two pointed prongs

Cheese hardness: Semi-soft to Hard 

Classic cheeses: Brie, Feta, Halloumi, Parmesan.

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