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Illustrated chart of nine numbered cheese knives: 1 small spade for hard cheeses, 2 narrow plane knife for semi-hard cheeses, 3 soft cheese knife for spreading, 4 cheese fork for holding and crumbling, 5 flat cheese knife for soft cheese and shaving hard, 6 fork-tipped spear to cut and serve, 7 open-work blade for soft, sticky cheeses, 8 Gorgonzola knife for spreading soft cheese, and 9 cheese slicer for thin slices

Cheese knives: Learn how to choose the right one for your next party.

The nine most common cheese knives, from the small spade to the cheese slicer, with what each one is for.

Infographic of seven cheese shapes with red dashed lines showing where to cut: round and square cheeses like a cake, pyramids in wedges from the center, hard wedges sliced across, soft wedges in long slices from the tip, logs in rounds, blue wedges fanned out from the tip, and box cheeses with a lid cut off the top

How to cut cheese

Bought cheese for a party and not sure how to cut it? Three simple rules, plus diagrams for every shape: wheels, pyramids, wedges, logs, blues and box cheeses.