Cleaving is mostly about friction. Cutting a block of cheddar is pretty much all cleaving, and a very sharp cutting edge doesn’t provide much advantage. My blade vibrates along the blade face, so foods experience the coefficient of kinetic friction, not static friction. This reduces cutting forces, and does so in a way that’s totally independent of the sharpness of the edge.
Looks like the inventor posted a comment explicitly about cheddar in the link.
I tried it once. I buy the BIG CHEESE and these things are too wee. I broke the wire immediately because I’m a ham-fisted goober.
I need the one that’s as big as the old paper slicing things they had in school. Put a nice wire on that thing, maybe run some heat through it. Now we’re talkin. Also, baller ass way to cut an ice cream cake which is the only thing more impossible to slice than cheese.
Show me how it cuts through a fat block of cheddar and then talk to me.
Thats the only thing I wrestle with, and I keep my knives sharp.
Looks like the inventor posted a comment explicitly about cheddar in the link.
Use wire.
Just do whatever the Dutch do. Which yes, is wire, also those cheese shaver things they have that are so much nicer than they seem like they’ll be.
Gotta love a good cheese plane
I tried it once. I buy the BIG CHEESE and these things are too wee. I broke the wire immediately because I’m a ham-fisted goober.
I need the one that’s as big as the old paper slicing things they had in school. Put a nice wire on that thing, maybe run some heat through it. Now we’re talkin. Also, baller ass way to cut an ice cream cake which is the only thing more impossible to slice than cheese.
The big cheese! I see you are no hobbiest.
(You’d actually want a vaneer saw, but it’s hard finding pics of a machine one)
Nah, I’m not gonna be convinced till that thing can slice through an Angel’s AT Field.
Serrated knives work better on cheese, unless you need a cleaner cut, then use a wire cheese cutter.
A single bevel serrated knife will leave pretty clean cut though. I use one of these: https://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/wusthof-gourmet-serrated-utility-knife/
Even works pretty well on softer Monterey Jack and pepper jack (which the wire snags on). And I’ve never sharpened it in 20 years.
But paid less than half that at resellers store.