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Raymond Levy
December 15, 2025
Ease of use
I work in a restaurant and we shred our own cheese so we buy it in a block. This is perfect for breaking down the block to make the cheese easier to shred.
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nice cheese cutter
nice cheese cutter, good quality with the metallic rings to re-enforce the strength.
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Simple, sharp, and satisfying to use
This cheese wire slicer is a total win. It’s as basic as it looks — just two smooth beech wood handles and a sturdy stainless steel wire — but it works perfectly. No gimmicks, no fragile hinges, no bulky contraptions. Just clean, even slices of cheese every single time.What I like:• Cuts through soft and hard cheeses effortlessly, from brie to cheddar to gouda bricks.• The wood handles feel great in hand — smooth, natural, and solid.• Comes with extra wires, which is a nice bonus (though the original one feels strong enough to last).• Easy to clean — rinse, dry, done.It’s got that old-school simplicity that just works better than most over-designed kitchen gadgets. Whether you’re slicing for a charcuterie board or just late-night snacking straight from the block (no judgment), this little tool’s got your back.Cheese lovers, this one’s a keeper 🧀💪
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Awkward to use, and no instructions
I only had the option of getting the 18” wire, so that’s what I’m reviewing. It might work okay with large cheese wheels or large blocks of clay, but the wire is way too long for smaller blocks of cheese—which is what I buy. Unfortunately, there’s no way to adjust the length of the wire. Also, be aware that it comes with no instructions and there are no videos showing how to use it. Installing the wire is somewhat intuitive. But it’s not clear what purpose the plastic washer serves. I noticed one reviewer mentioned removing the washer, but I’m pretty sure it should remain in place when you install the wire. Again, something that instructions would have clarified. As others have mentioned, you also need to make sure the cheese is on a pedestal when slicing, otherwise your hands hit the counter and you can’t slice all the way through. It’s nice that the device comes with a case, but once you install the wire and try to put it back into the case, it sticks up and the lid won’t close. The case needs to be larger.
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K. Littleman
August 16, 2025
Accidentally ordered stainless steel without handles. Still slices well.
Step one - read the description. I failed this part. I thought I was ordering the wires with steel handles versus the wooden handles, but it was just wires to be used for handles you already have. Other than that, these seem well made and function fine for clay pottery I use them for. I often coil wires with handles around my fingers to shorten the lengths, so having no handle is not a huge problem. They are holding up to use and are lightweight enough for fine slices. Having three on hand is a good value for the price.
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M and E Ramirez
July 28, 2025
Works great - if you use it correctly
I live in Wisconsin, the land of endless cheese. There's a dairy not far from here where you can buy 5-pound logs of pretty great cheese for a very low price per pound. As you might imagine, a 5-pound block of cheese is rather large. Cutting the cheese (har har, she said "cutting the cheese") with a knife is difficult; the cheese block is twice as long as my largest chef's knife, the cheese sticks to the knife, and aged cheeses crumble easier than they slice. This cheese cutter is designed to make clean cuts through cheese without these issues.This set comes as two handles, which screw apart to install the wire, and three wires with a loop at each end. Assembly was easy and intuitive. I was glad for the spare wires, but I'll get to that part.It's hard to find any information online about how to use a cheese wire like this one. I only found a video on YouTube of someone at a cheese festival using a roughly similar gadget to cut a giant wheel of cheese. So, armed with a five-pound block of sharp cheddar, I started to experiment.First, I tried laying the wire under the cheese block, crossing the handles, and pulling them in opposite directions. This created a beautiful clean cut, but the loop formed by the wire got smaller as I pulled, and by the end the wire got a kink in it. I got a pair of needlenose pliers and tried to gently straighten it, but it broke as soon as I tried another cut. Oops.Second experiment (after installing one of the spare wires) was laying the wire on top of the cheese and pulling down on both sides. This didn't work on a counter top (my knuckles hit the counter before much slicing had happened). Putting the cheese on the corner of the counter so I had more room to pull down eventually worked, but was awkward and didn't give a very clean cut as a result.Third time was the charm. I attempted to replicate the cheese-festival gadget from the video by holding one end of the wire firm, running the other under the cheese, and pulling it over the top. Since this also requires bracing the cheese and I only have two hands, I held the stationary end of the wire between my legs. Awkward, but it made a beautiful cut, even on a super fragile block of extra sharp. (Then my daughter in law stopped by and I pressed her into service, and we discovered that four hands make this technique easy.)In conclusion, this cheese wire works great to cut even very large blocks of cheese, provided you use the correct technique. An instruction manual, or a video in the product description, would have been great for us non-cheese-professionals attempting to use this. But I figured it out, and now you know too.
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Jose Varela
September 10, 2025
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