Güde Alpha Barrel Oak Bread Knife 32 cm - CVM Knife 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 slicing bread so easy and enjoyable. Please restrain yourself, as more slices than needed can quickly be cut.

The Alpha Barrel Oak Bread Sword glides through hard and soft crusts. It has a 32 cm long, straight blade with the famous Güde wave cut made of rust-free & hand-sharpened chrome-vanadium-molybdenum knife steel. The blade length won't let you despair even with wide loaves of bread and the weight of the knife supports your sawing motion, so only light pressure is needed. A truly impressive bread knife in all respects.

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 blend of steel and the elaborate manufacturing process involving over 30 manual steps give the rust-free blades a hardness of approximately 58 HRC, making them particularly robust and durable.

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