Anyone ever make cheese knives?

[J. Keeton]

So I'm going to be making a little set of cheese knives like these for my mom:




I plan on using 0.070'' AEB-L for them.


Does a cheese knife need to be heat treated? Any other suggestions on making a set of cheese knives...

Cheers!
JK

 

[Richard338]

I made a couple in very thin (0.04") CPM 3V hardened to 60.
They cut cheese very well. I think it is all about friction for cheese, so the holes and serrations help.

 

[DevinT]

So I'm going to be making a little set of cheese knives like these for my mom:




I plan on using 0.070'' AEB-L for them.


Does a cheese knife need to be heat treated? Any other suggestions on making a set of cheese knives...

Cheers!
JK

AEBL needs to be heat treated, for one, it will rust if not heat treated. All knives should be hardened and tempered.

Hoss

 

[J. Keeton]

Good tips on the design!

And 10-4, I'll send them out for HT. Just wondering... Since cheese is soft.

 

[JTknives]

How about you just send me the design and I will return heat treated blanks

But from my experience the best cheese knife was just a thin high tension wire stretched between two posts.

 

[seanj]

How about you just send me the design and I will return heat treated blanks

But from my experience the best cheese knife was just a thin high tension wire stretched between two posts.

The high tension wire kind work great, until they break. Everyone I've had I end up breaking the wire. Probably me putting too much stress on them. So personally I'd rather have a cheese knife.

 

[J. Keeton]

How about you just send me the design and I will return heat treated blanks

But from my experience the best cheese knife was just a thin high tension wire stretched between two posts.

Hey JT... this maybe my mode of action. I'll get with you after I have some designed.

 

[Cushing H.]

Cheese shops ive been to often use longer knives with two handles (one on each side) to cut through larger pieces of cheese. But these are huge. Though .... when i have a bigger piece of cheese that i want to cut a hunk off of (either for cooking or to subdivide for storage) i find myself using one of my european knives (thicker blade, less acute edge angle), but use my other hand’s thumb on the knife tip as well as the handle side to “push down through the cheese block”. Yes, this does make me somewhat nervous for that thumb! Might be cool to design a home-size version of that larger two-handle cheese knife!

 

[JTknives]

Cheese shops ive been to often use longer knives with two handles (one on each side) to cut through larger pieces of cheese. But these are huge. Though .... when i have a bigger piece of cheese that i want to cut a hunk off of (either for cooking or to subdivide for storage) i find myself using one of my european knives (thicker blade, less acute edge angle), but use my other hand’s thumb on the knife tip as well as the handle side to “push down through the cheese block”. Yes, this does make me somewhat nervous for that thumb! Might be cool to design a home-size version of that larger two-handle cheese knife!

Kinda like a draw knife for wood but for cheese, I like it. We go through a ton of cheese in my house.

 

[Larrin]

Cheese plane is way better than wire.

 

[Cushing H.]

Kinda like a draw knife for wood but for cheese, I like it. We go through a ton of cheese in my house.

Exactly... though the handles are knd of weird - the close one is like a regular knife handle, but the far one is crosswise (at 90 degrees to the blade). Cant paste links on my ipad ... google the “boska dutch cheese knife” for an example. I guess you could execute that far handle as two part (one on either side) with a long pin through the middle?

I could make use of one also (smaller than the boska, which is made to go through huge rounds of cheese) - want to collaborate on a design, and you can cut out on your plasma cutter???

 

[Natlek]

Exactly... though the handles are knd of weird - the close one is like a regular knife handle, but the far one is crosswise (at 90 degrees to the blade). Cant paste links on my ipad ... google the “boska dutch cheese knife” for an example. I guess you could execute that far handle as two part (one on either side) with a long pin through the middle?

I could make use of one also (smaller than the boska, which is made to go through huge rounds of cheese) - want to collaborate on a design, and you can cut out on your plasma cutter???

I like it ! Not hard to make it..............