Crumbly cheddar is tough cheese to cut nicely, especially when you are making open sandwiches where presentation is as important as taste.

Most cheese knives don’t really do this style of cheese well. Wire cutters tend to either give you a slice too thick or worse, go ‘twang’ leaving you with a half cut slice of cheese and pangs of frustration as you look for a new wire, only to discover there are non. 

The nightmare only continues when you use a cheese slicing tool, which you must drag over the top, like some mad farmer at a tractor pull. Then suddenly you give it too much force, the slice goes flying, falls apart and the corner breaks off the cheese.

Instead use a good quality potato peeler to shave off slices as you need. The blade is thick enough and sharp enough to cope with the cheese toughness, but thin enough to not suffer the friction caused by the cheeses texture.

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