The Best Bread Knife Costs $22 But Is Worth Its Weight In Gold. GOLD! Alex Beggs
Let’s cut right to the chase: Even the best bread knife is only going to do, like, four things. But two of those are so important to the day-to-day functioning of my life, I can’t imagine living without one.
2: Slicing a ripe summer tomato to go on top of that bread.
As sure as I’m feeding a meowy cat every morning, so does my bread knife come out of the block. This $22 knife is the one the BA Test Kitchen uses; its sharp teeth bounce along the 10-inch blade like a doodle on the top of your loose-leaf homework page. Something about it also reminds me of the decoratively-edged craft scissors my mom always threatened to cut my hair with. (She never did, FWIW.) Its name, the Mercer Culinary Millennia, evokes a futuristic spaceship, one with an excellent canteen.