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Bread knives are used for cutting
"The Serrated Bread Knife," ''Chronicle of Early American Industries'', 2010
- article documenting the production of American serrated knives and saw-cut knives back as far as 1838. {{Kitchen tools Kitchen knives Breads Domestic implements
Bread knives are used for cutting bread
Bread is a baked food product made from water, flour, and often yeast. It is a staple food across the world, particularly in Europe and the Middle East. Throughout recorded history and around the world, it has been an important part of many cu ...
and are one of many kitchen knives
A kitchen knife is any knife that is intended to be used in food preparation. While much of this work can be accomplished with a few general-purpose knives — notably a large chef's knife and a smaller serrated blade utility knife — there are ...
used by cooks. The serrated blades of bread knives are able to cut soft bread without crushing it.
History
One such knife was exhibited at theWorld's Columbian Exposition
The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 5 to October 31, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492. The ...
in 1893 in Chicago by the Friedrich Dick company (Esslingen, Germany). One design was patented in the United States by Joseph E. Burns of Syracuse, New York
Syracuse ( ) is a City (New York), city in and the county seat of Onondaga County, New York, United States. With a population of 148,620 and a Syracuse metropolitan area, metropolitan area of 662,057, it is the fifth-most populated city and 13 ...
, in 1919, predating the invention of automatically sliced bread
Sliced bread is a loaf of bread, sliced with a machine and packaged for convenience, as opposed to the consumer cutting it with a knife. It was first sold in 1928, advertised as "the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was ...
by about ten years. His knife had sections of grooves or serrations, inclined with respect to the axis of the blade, that form individual small cutting edges which were perpendicular to the blade and thus cut without the excessive normal pressure required of a scalloped blade and without the horizontal force required by positive-raked teeth that would dig into the bread like a wood saw. There were also sections of grooves with the opposite direction of inclination, separated by a section of smooth blade, and the knife thus cut cleanly in both directions in both hard and soft bread.
Measurement
Bread knives are usually between . An offset serrated knife uses an offset handle to ensure the cook's knuckles will not touch the cutting surface when the blade has cut all of the way through the food.See also
* Bread fork, a now-forgotten Victorian utensilReferences
External links
"The Serrated Bread Knife," ''Chronicle of Early American Industries'', 2010
- article documenting the production of American serrated knives and saw-cut knives back as far as 1838. {{Kitchen tools Kitchen knives Breads Domestic implements