Le Grand Fromage Cheese Knife

A celebration of cheese

It’s hugely exciting to have a limited run of our fantastic Grand Fromage – a beauty of a blade whose origins were inspired by the cheese knives favoured by the Dutch and a league away from the ubiquitous and usually disappointingly inept cheese knives often relegated to the back of the kitchen drawer after just one outing.

Our original brief was to design a curved blade capable of slicing a Brie de Meaux in one smooth, clean slice, yet be equally up to the challenge of tackling exceedingly hard cheeses such as Mimolette (visually reminiscent of a dusty cannonball and otherwise known as Boule de Lille) that would usually need cutting using a cheese wire or guillotine.

The concave geometry and increased depth of the blade ensures a fine entry with minimal drag through any cheese, whilst the curved edge allows for a satisfying rock, the spherical handle at the tip proving comfortable and allowing for a secure grip particularly useful when tackling harder cheeses where a more forceful grip is required.

The handle is hand finished in rich tamboti, with an optional leather blade protector hand-cut and stitched by Tiffany in our workshop.

If you’d like a different handle material, then just get in touch or leave a note at checkout and we’ll get back to you.

Precision engineered from the highest quality high-tech 14c28n Sandvik Swedish steel and sharpened by hand and eye for the ultimate cutting edge.

As with every Savernake knife, Le Grand Fromage features our trademark concave hollow grind, expertly blended into a tapering convex cutting edge. This means it is both incredibly light, and easy to hone. It also allows for smoother cutting and slicing due to reduced metal passing through the ingredient, and less sticking, due to the reduced surface contact. Quite simply, the concave hollow grind is the business.