Spec me a £20 bread knife from Amazon

Feek · 30 Jul 2020 at 14:35

My current bread knife hacks through the loaf, creating far too many crumbs.

I have a £20 Amazon voucher.

What's the best bread knife I can get on Amazon for that twenty quid?

/edit - I've ordered the Victorinox, it'll be here tomorrow. Thanks all.

Ta.

Feek · 30 Jul 2020 at 22:32

Gray2233 said:
It's actually a very nice knife, looks great too.

That is a pretty knife.

Raikiri said:
Get the larger bread/pastry knife if you can spend another £6-7.

That looks bland compared to the one above the the longer length is tempting.

I'm still undecided though, any other comments on the above or other suggestions?

Feek · 31 Jul 2020 at 20:25

arknor said:
I've never got on with serrated bread knives, just seems to rip up any load that's soft

What do you suggest then? I’m tending towards the Victorinox one at the moment (although I don’t understand the difference between the bread and the pastry one).

Feek · 31 Jul 2020 at 20:51

arknor said:
but my loaves are from a bread maker so might be a bit smaller than whatever your baking.

Mine are coming out of a bread maker as well. I use 400g of flour so they’re a sensible size and not growing out of the top of the pan.

Feek · 1 Aug 2020 at 09:54

I've ordered the Victorinox, it'll be here tomorrow. Thanks all.

Feek · 2 Aug 2020 at 13:02

Ta-da!

Feek · 2 Aug 2020 at 13:07

Gray2233 said:
Nothing better than a nice fresh home made loaf of bread.

The purists will say that because it's out of a bread maker that it's not real bread. I disagree

Feek · 2 Aug 2020 at 13:18

Oh, I didn't say. Oops. It works really well, it's actually cutting the bread rather than hacking through, there's very little crumb and I can finally cut a slice that's not a door stop.

Great call, thanks.