Güde Alpha Barrel Oak Bread Knife 21 cm - CVM Knife Steel - Handle Scales Made from Wine Barrel Oak Wood

A bread slicer takes up too much space for you, or do you simply enjoy cutting bread by hand? Then you should definitely add the Güde bread knife to your selection of knives. After all, Franz Güde is the inventor of the serrated edge.

With the Alpha Barrel Oak bread knife and its 21 cm long blade, you can cut any bread, whether with a hard or soft crust, into even slices. The single-sided hand-ground blade with the famous Güde serrated edge made from chrome-vanadium-molybdenum knife steel makes bread slicers seem unnecessary.

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, acts as a counterbalance to the blade. The knife is perfectly balanced. The special blend of steel and the elaborate manufacturing process with over 30 manual steps give the stainless blades with a hardness of about 58 HRC exceptional robustness and durability.

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