Customer Reviews

Zwilling J.A. Henckels Twin Four Star 8-Inch High Carbon Stainless Steel Bread knife

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After buying a bread machine, we now no longer buy our bread. Everyone (children and adults) cuts their own bread, at the table, to the slice thickness they prefer. With my old bread knives, the slices quite often came out looking like an ocean surface (waves and all). After upgrading to this Henckel (to match my other Henckel knives), we can now all cut straight slices. It doesn't matter if the bread just came out of the bread machine (yum) or if the bread was baked yesterday. No longer is the French bread (hard crusts) squashed while we try to slice it. This is definitely the "best thing since sliced bread"!

This knife's best at slicing tomatoes and other veggies. It's a bit short for cutting big peasant loaves, and the straight blade makes it harder to cut at an angle down through the bread, since the sharp point, while great for starting a cut through an obstinate veggie skin, can get stuck in your cutting board. The serrations work great, however, slicing through both crust and soft inner breadness.

Bought a Henckels Twin Four Star set...and it didn't have the 8-inch bread knife. So, had to buy this separately. It's a fantastic knife. And really makes slicing bread easy and convenient.

This was a replacement for an item my wife and I received as a wedding gift almost 20 years ago. It was part of a set, and it disappeared without a trace sometime in the last year. It was sorely missed, because we used it often. Although technically it is a bread slicer, it is equally adept at slicing everything from tri-tip to fruits and vegetables. All I can say is, we're glad it's back, and welcome home!

i bought this the other day on clearance at a local department store. i was kind of questioning it because for the fact that it was on clearance. turned out to be one of the best things i've bought this year. very sharp. for the price, makes it even better. i strongly recommend this item. good luck.

This knife works fine for loaf pan type breads, it does not work well for loaves any wider than that, however. The actual usable length of the knife is more like 6.5-7" (the guy that said it is 8" long, probably lies about the lenght of other things too. LOL) It is too short to use for normal round loaf breads. The blade is also a lot stiffer than what I prefer in a bread knife, but this may just be a personal preference.