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post #1 of 17
11/1/07 at 1:39pm
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Any advice, cheese lovers? I'd like to buy something nice but not ridiculous for my wife, as she is a big fan of cheese. My default would be to go to William-Sonoma and just buy whatever they had. But I thought I would ask for free advice from you lot first.

cheers,
b
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post #2 of 17
11/1/07 at 1:54pm
Once upon a time my brother bought me one of those neat marble slabs with the wire cutter arms. It worked great until the wire snapped on the second piece of cheese. Hmm. Now, my folks have one they've been using for a decade. They can be very nice looking and very helpful for getting uniform straight cuts - if that's what you're looking for. Just a thought.
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post #3 of 17
11/1/07 at 2:01pm
This may be just me, but I'm not sure my wife would appreciate me boasting to the world that she was a lover of cheese

I've contemplated buying a cheese knife dozens of times but never have. It just doesn't seem like I'd get that much enjoyment out of it and it's another thing in my already packed kitchen.

-spence
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post #4 of 17
11/1/07 at 2:08pm
I was just in William Sonoma a couple of days ago. I looked at a decent olive wood cheese board and knife set you can get for 90.00 or 49.00 just for the knives. I recommend getting a decent set of knives and stay away from the wire slicers becasue the wires last a few months at best. Any good specialty cookware shop should have something solid.
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post #5 of 17
11/1/07 at 2:34pm
I'd recommend a nice presentation 'cutting board' (Simon Pearce?)and a decent set of knives covering the basics - soft (kind of a skeletal blade w/ less surface area to cling to), trowel-like chisel (for parm and other harder & crumbly cheeses), and maybe a plane for fine wide strips.
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post #6 of 17
11/1/07 at 3:02pm
Here's a cheap, easy setup for you: Get a wood block board with an insert for a metal cutting wire. Go to the local fishing hole and get some wire. Rig up the wire into the board and you've got yourself a $100 cutting board for $20 worth of parts. Works great for both hard and soft cheeses. Plus, the wire's replaceable if anything ever goes wrong.
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post #7 of 17
11/2/07 at 2:08am
I picked up some great cheese knives and olive-wood cutting boards while in Italy (Assissi, to be specific). Unfortunately that's neither cheap nor rr easy
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post #8 of 17
11/3/07 at 12:18pm
I have this little cheese knife I got from my Mom, I think it's Williams-Sonoma. It's got a curved blade with a hooked tip, and it's very effective, I can't think it was too expensive. (If I had a camera, I'd take a pic.)

I'd pair that with a small, bamboo cutting board--those are very solid.
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post #9 of 17
11/3/07 at 2:47pm
Buy some three- or four- year old parmigiano reggiano and one of these:
http://www.fooditaly.com/scheda.asp?...sories&idp=491

The satisfaction of chipping off a good sized piece and feeling the gritty crunch between your molars is exquisite.
Even better, pair it with an aged balsamic.
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post #10 of 17
11/3/07 at 11:29pm
Not a review, but I planned to pick up the Lagioule set from Williams-Sonoma next time I'm near one. Or maybe Amazon has it.

~ Huntsman
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post #11 of 17
11/4/07 at 12:27pm
Our staff uses various cheese knives from Swissmar to slice the various 10 different cheeses we have on our cheese menu.

Here's an example:

http://www.thekitchenstore.com/056975013934.html

Cost is about $15/knife.
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post #12 of 17
11/4/07 at 3:28pm
Thread Starter 
Thanks for the replies guys.

[edit: I answered my own question.]


Are the cheese boards special or are they primarily just for display/serving?

I'm beginning to think the very expensive sets are a lot of money for nothing more than show.

b
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post #13 of 17
11/4/07 at 3:48pm
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Originally Posted by rdawson808 View Post
I'm beginning to think the very expensive sets are a lot of money for nothing more than show.
I thought that's what almost everything is about on SF.
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post #14 of 17
11/16/07 at 1:56pm
I would find a nice set somewhere with a marble board. Sometimes you can find wine toppers that match the marble and the cheese knife handles will match the marble as well. It's a great gift and I think your wife would love it. It might be about the presentation but girls love that when entertaining.
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post #15 of 17
11/16/07 at 2:19pm

I bought the Laguiole cheese knife set for my mother and it went down very well.
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