What to Look for When Buying a Cheese Slicer

If you are a person who loves cheese, you know that there are few times that are bad for cheese. However, there is one bad part about this glorious food; cutting cheese is horrible. Cheese has a nasty habit of sticking to everything that slices it. The general rule for cutting cheese is that a flat blade will cause it to stick. When the cheese sticks, you have to stop your slicing and peel it off the knife. This is great if you want to snack on it right away, but if you're cutting a lot of cheese this is a true inconvenience. Plus, if you're in a party atmosphere, you don't want to have to touch other people's cheese when you are trying to be nice and slice a piece of cheese for them.

Most people get out of the whole cheese slicing problem by getting their cheese sliced at the store or the deli, but why you would want to do that when you could do it at home. There use to be only one kind of cheese slicer, but now with the advent of the food network, cheese slicers are abundant in many of the stores out there.

What do you need to look for in a cheese slicer? Well it depends on what kind of slicer you're more comfortable with.
There are many ways to cut a piece of cheese, but it comes down to what make you happy. Knives are always readily available. If you're going to be cutting cheese with a knife, you need a knife that has indentations or holes in it to make sure that the cheese doesn't have a space to stick to. Unfortunately, after a few slices these indentations get jammed up and the cheese starts to stick to the knife. Unless you're into wiping off your blade every 3 slices, then the knife is not for you. In reality, the knife is the least useful cheese slicer.

The most popular and the most useful cheese slicer, is a slicer that is merely a cutting board and a stainless steel piece of wire. This wire is attached to an arm and is pulled down and through the cheese. This wire fits into a small groove at the bottom of the cutting board, allowing the wire to pass completely through the cheese. Many of the large cheese houses and cheese coinsures, use large pieces of wire with handles attached to it. The wire has very little surface area; therefore, the cheese won't stick to it.

The industrial spinning blade cheese slicer is the most often used cheese slicer. So many people use this type of slicer because the blade spins and the cheese doesn't have the opportunity to stick to it. Another great feature of this stainless steel contraption is that you have the ability to cut it in different thickness.

In the end, the goal is to enjoy the cheese. How you cut it, depends on your own personal style, and whether you are bothered by the cheese sticking. I've known people who have used a flat knife to cut their cheese for years, and they aren't about to change it now. If you're out looking for a good cheese slicer, these are a few rules to follow.