Güde Alpha Barrel Oak Bread Knife 32 cm - CVM Steel - Handle Scales Wine Barrel Oak Wood

Bread knife? No, more like a bread sword. Yes, it's long, very long indeed. In this case, however, size DOES matter. No other bread knife makes cutting bread so easy and enjoyable. Please restrain yourself, as more slices than needed can be quickly cut.

The Alpha Barrel Oak Bread Sword glides effortlessly through hard and soft crusts. It has a 32 cm long, straight blade with the famous Güde serrated edge made of rust-free and hand-sharpened chrome-vanadium-molybdenum knife steel. The blade length allows you to tackle even wide loaves of bread without despair, and the weight of the knife supports your sawing motion, requiring only light pressure. A truly impressive bread knife in every respect.

Güde knives are hand-forged from a single piece of chrome-vanadium-molybdenum steel, from the tip of the blade to the double bolster. The double bolster, a special feature of Güde knives, provides a counterweight to the blade. The knife is perfectly balanced. The special steel blend and the elaborate manufacturing process involving over 30 manual steps give the rust-free blades with a hardness of approximately 58 HRC exceptional robustness and durability.

The finely polished handle scales made of oak wood from wine barrels over 80 years old, called stave wood, are embedded in the steel and triple-riveted. Due to the long aging process, the coarse-textured wood is extremely hard and virtually indestructible. The Alpha Barrel Oak series was created in collaboration with Michelin-starred chef Harald Rüssel and his wife Ruth. Harald Rüssel's signature can be found as a laser engraving on each blade.