Cheese knife#Cheese slicer

The cheese slicer was from Norwegian Thor Bjørklund (1889-1975), a carpenter from Lillehammer, invented in 1925 and patented. As of 1927, mass production.

Cheese Slicers are widely used in the Scandinavian countries and the Netherlands, as the consumption of cheese here is great. In addition, the traditional cheeses in these countries are hard enough to be shaved into slices.

The planer is usually of a more or less decorative shaped piece of steel with a continuously variable diameter in the area. The thickness of the material to be cut is adjusted by an adjusting screw. The cheese, usually Parmesan or other hard cheese, or the truffles are cut with the plow into thin slices and passed through the main course.

The cheese slicer, which are used in the Scandinavian countries, have taken the adjustable knife a cut opening that is easy to bend, to vary the thickness of the material to be cut slightly.

A special form of the cheese slicer is the Girolle that is used for the shaping Tête -de- Moine cheese.

Also, a Swiss development is a heavy wooden version with adjustable blade that is especially suitable for hard and extra hard cheese and is used for cutting cheese shavings.

A selection of cheese slicers

Girolle for Tête de Moine

Cheese slicer for hard and extra-hard cheese