Click on image to purchase The classic designs for cheese knives tend to drag down the cheese and compact the slices, but , open-work blade adds air to the mix, which makes for even slicing. This type of knife is used in the dining room on a cheese board. Click on image to purchase For hard and even semihard cheeses a wire cheese slicer cuts cheese thinner than knives can and without the added pressure on your hands. The stainless-steel wire ensures a thin slice. Wires are available on marble or wooden cheese boards to enable easy slicing of larger blocks of cheese Cheese planes also enable thin slicing and can be found on some graters.
Hard cheeses are odd in that the thinner they're sliced, the more flavorful they are.
And while it might not seem so, thinly slicing cheese is a difficult task. Cheese planes, in one smooth stroke, take the guesswork out of how to achieve the perfectly sliced piece of cheese. A narrow-bladed knife cleanly slices pieces from blocks of semisoft and semifirm cheeses such as Brie, Camembert, jack, and Jarlsberg. A wide-bladed knife works the same for soft, crumbly cheeses.