Prodyne CK-300 Multi-Use Cheese Fruit and Veggie Knife Silver

My daughter has a cheese knife from a set she got as a wedding gift. She let me use her knife one day and I was hooked. I wanted one for myself but the price of a good quality cheese knife was out of my reach or so I thought. I read the reviews on this cheese knife and they were great. I decided to give it a try and I’m so glad I did. This is a great knife. Makes cutting cheese and even tomatoes a breeze. It’s lightweight but durable and very easy to clean. I have small hands but the size is perfect. Highly recommend!

I generally prefer forged knives instead of flat steel. However, this cheese knife was Serious Eats choice. It is low cost, well-balanced, light weight, and has a scalloped and serrated blade. It does a great job on medium hard cheeses such as an aged cheddar. Delighted with cutting ability, grip, and cost. Highly recommended.

Nice knife, but I didn't find it worked great to cut very thin slices of apple. Worked fine for other items.

I want to give this 5 stars based on slicing cheeses like sharp (or extra sharp) cheddar and Monterrey Jack. It is AWESOME for that purpose. It works well for softer cheeses too, but those two are the main ones I buy. Extra sharp cheddar is much harder than Jack, so it takes slightly more effort, but with this knife I can cut amazingly thin, consistent slices, which do not stick to the blade.It does not work well with small tomatoes because the fruit tends to get caught up in the holes of the knife. I have found this to happen with full-sized tomatoes as well. My serrated tomato knife is still superior for this purpose. Also, because of the slant blade and one-sided serrations, the blade will tend to take its own course, which is easier to correct with cheese, but evenly cutting things like apples and onions is tougher, and carrots are even more difficult. I find I need to fight the blade a bit in these cases, but if I do, it still cuts pretty well, although I still prefer a sharp paring knife for those.The biggest bummer was rust. RUST? Dang, I did not expect that. I now see that nowhere on the blade is it marked "stainless," I just expected it to be, and also the description here says it is. I was lazy one night and left it in the sink overnight and now it has some rust stains on it.Still, if you slice a lot of cheese and really like perfectly thin, even slices, this knife is the best I've tried.**UPDATED on 5/8/2015**I've upgraded this to Four Stars because the rust eventually came off, PLUS the rust was caused by leaving it in a puddle of water in the sink overnight, which is not advisable for any knife. It's still awesome for cheese, mediocre for anything else.

I purchased this about a year and change ago, chiefly for working with firmer cheeses such as Manchego. If you are working with soft/ripe cheeses like Bleu, Brie, or similar this knife would not be my first choice. For hard cheese - especially if you can work with it closer to serving temp, it works great and is easy to clean for the next cheese you need to work with.It's a dream to cut with and is also great with tomatoes. Normally I buy Wustoff knives for my main cooking knives. I bought this one as a quick fix and ended up liking it enough that I couldn't justify $60 to $150 for a Wustoff cheese knife. (I cook with hard cheese a fair bit but not $150 dollar cheese knife amount.) I do have their two handled large block cheese knife but that's almost never needed unless you just need 40 lbs of Parmesan...I had no issues with this staying sharp and treated it like some of my "sani-safe" prep knives and just tossed it in a dishwasher.If you really are partial to knives from Solingen (I normally am) Messermeister has one for about 20 bucks but I like the blade shape on this more.If you need knives to leave on a charcuterie tray there are better options aesthetically, such as the Wustof presentation set for around 115 with plumwood handles or many other options in the $30 space. If I'm putting it on the table for anyone to cut with I'm probably going the $30 dollar space since you can bank on people beating up the blades...

Nice shap knife.

This cheese knife design was foreign to me, but I took a chance as I was buying brick cheese and struggling to slice it with any knife I owned.It does slice an 8 oz Tillamook. Extra Sharp block beautifully, but not the 2 lb Tillamook Extra Sharp block — it just crumbles.I overlook this shortfall because it is so wonderful otherwise! It’s superb at sawing through tough avocado skins on store-bought avocados to get a wedge I can carve into thin perfect slices! It works for banana, cooked sweet potatoes, any soft food I’m preparing. It might even be a perfect cake knife.The packaging is awesome — protective and beautiful. I made room in my knife drawer for the box. The fit of the knife is so tight I placed a thin twist-tie under the handle to use to loosen it and lift it out.The cost was reasonable. I cannot imagine why I would spend nearly 10X more for a name-brand knife of the same functionality. Oh yeah, it’s got a life-time warranty! Well life-time anything means less and less to me the older I get.I recommend this knife!

I've bought 3 of these little gems!! One for home ,one for our Airbnb and one for the travel trailer cuz I can't live without it!!! Perfect for soft foods like cheese and fruit!! Stays sharp and I have put them through the dishwasher without damage. Super little knife!!!