Best way to slice bread

culpepper

I use one of those hand operated rotary slicers for ours.I always find if slicing with a knife,I have to angle the knife a little.

ManAtHome

Concentration - similar to sawing wood. Get you head over the loaf and watch both ends of the knife (don't draw round the outside with pencil - that's chetaing...).

kingmonkey

Its very similar to sawing. Use the weight of the knife to cut the bread.

bizzylizzy

I turn the loaf on it's side and then cut it, seems to stop the top getting squashed.

tinselfairy

We bought a knife from Lakeland that has a slicing guide attached to it which can be set at different thicknesses so bread can be sliced as thinly or thicky as needed. Not really used it for any thin cutting, but ok for regular bread slice sizes. It's called adjust-a-slice.

seraphina

If you have a sharp breadknife you actually need very little downward pressure - just use sawing motions and as a previous poster said, let the weight of the knife cut the bread. Pushing down will result in horrible mangled slices!

CoD_2

seraphina wrote:

If you have a sharp breadknife you actually need very little downward pressure - just use sawing motions and as a previous poster said, let the weight of the knife cut the bread. Pushing down will result in horrible mangled slices!

yep i'd do this, don't force it down

skintchick

kingmonkey wrote:

Its very similar to sawing. Use the weight of the knife to cut the bread.

This is key - don;t push down on the knife, just let the knife do the cutting.

If you push down you get weird slices, like you describe.

Jay-Jay_4

Line the cutting board up with the worktop, put the loaf on straight and line the knife up with the right edge of the board. Then just concentrate on keeping the blade of the knife straight by looking down over the loaf.

Practice makes perfect.

nearlyrich

My OH is an expert at cutting bread, I get strange slices so I let him do it or get it sliced by the bakery.