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Slicing bread

B3B3 Posts: 27,505
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I couldn't cut a straight slice off a loaf to save my life. In fact it would be worse because I'd probably be a bit nervous!
Has anyone got any tips? Or maybe there's an amazing gadget.
In London. Keen but lazy.
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  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307
    In this case practice does not make perfect. She has been slicing bread for 30 years and still she cannot do it. (Her confession, not my criticism, wouldn't dare.).
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I think some folk can and others can’t … I’ve been slicing bread since I was at primary school … just always could… we never had sliced bread as a family and now I bake my own  ….  so I’m probably not the right person to help
    you  … but a good sharp well-balanced bread knife and a sturdy board are the first requisites. 
    😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I have them @Dovefromabove. What next?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    🤣 this has been a bug-bear for me for the last 23 years that I've been making my own bread twice a week.
    Almost every slice is the correct thickness when I start cutting at the top, but by the time I've finished the bottom of the slice is either 2mm or about 30mm!
    I must waste about 30% of every loaf.

    There are various gadgets I've seen on Amazon etc but as my loaves can be quite wide sometimes I've not found one that will fit all sizes.

    Billericay - Essex

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    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I would start with a small ‘quite firm’ loaf … something like a
    traditional uncut Hovis … start on that and get your eye in … then move on to bigger loaves when you’re more confident. 🍞 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited 17 February
    Same here @Pete.8. There's a limit to the amount of breadcrumbs I can use and I hate bread and butter pudding.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    In your state of panic and apprehension, don’t squeeze the loaf with your non-cutting hand. That way distortion lies. I would also endorse getting a quality bread knife.
    Rutland, England
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    What about bread pudding as opposed to bread and butter pudding - or if that doesn't appeal either, getting a slicing guide device?
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Slicing devices aren't much good for home made bread
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KiliKili Posts: 1,104
    Or just buy a sliced loaf! Problem solved  :D

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    George Bernard Shaw'

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