Cutting Bread

[Miss Demeanour]

Is there a simple device that allows you to cut a slice of bread evenly ...apart from industrial type machines ?

What is it about a fresh loaf of bread that means that when you put a knife in it you either get a wedgey slab or a crumbling wafer thin slice.

I know I am deficient in the bread slicing gene but surely there is a technique to make this easier 

[Barman]

Here you are my dear...

 

[Bar Wench]

http://www.lakeland.co.uk/evenslice/F/keyword/bread/product/1951

[Barman]

http://www.lakeland.co.uk/evenslice/F/keyword/bread/product/1951

Seventeen Pounds! 

[Snoopy]

Few wimmin of my acquaintance have ever been able to slice bread ~ except my Grandmother who had trained as a kitchen maid back in the early 1900s and could cut a standard loaf, even freshly made, so thinly you could see through it.

For most others I would suggest


I can slice bread evenly ~ it requires a sharp knife, a keen eye and a steady hand. Let the knife do the work ~ any pressure and you will distort the soft middle of the loaf sending you off into wedge territory. Perhaps that helps.

[Bar Wench]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kitchen-Craft-Expanding-Acrylic-Keeper/dp/B000YJDIOM/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=kitchen&qid=1228925366&sr=8-3

That one looks better at £10.95

[Miss Demeanour]

I prefer the more tradiotnal cutting utensils (hence the axe) . Some of those devices  look like they will take my fingers off 

[Barman]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kitchen-Craft-Expanding-Acrylic-Keeper/dp/B000YJDIOM/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=kitchen&qid=1228925366&sr=8-3

That one looks better at £10.95

Yes... it looks as good as the one in my first post!

[Darwins Selection]

~ it requires a sharp knife, a keen eye and a steady hand.

That rules me out then. . . 

[Barman]

~ it requires a sharp knife, a keen eye and a steady hand.

That rules me out then. . . 

And me... 

[TG]

~ it requires a sharp knife, a keen eye and a steady hand.

That rules me out then. . . 

And me... 

DT's are a bastard arent they? 

[Darwins Selection]

~ it requires a sharp knife, a keen eye and a steady hand.

That rules me out then. . . 

And me... 

DT's are a bastard arent they? 

Oh, not BM? 

[Barman]

~ it requires a sharp knife, a keen eye and a steady hand.

That rules me out then. . . 

And me... 

DT's are a bastard arent they? 

Oh, not BM? 

[Nick]

It's called a knife   

[Grumpmeister]

~ it requires a sharp knife, a keen eye and a steady hand.

That rules me out then. . . 

And me... 

DT's are a bastard arent they? 

Oh, not BM? 

BM doesnt have DT's Darwin, his hands shake because of all those times he's landed on his head after falling off a roof.