Laguiole cheese knives

Company Forge De Laguiole was founded in 1987. It has united people fascinated by the idea of ​​recreating production laguiole cheese knives in the famous town Lajolo. Special aesthetic Forge de Laguiole knives is in their elegantly curved blade and the handle bending is designed to replicate the contours of your palm.

Forge de Laguiole cheese knives are highly valued around the world for their elegance and exceptional gravity of the blade. Many talented designers working enthusiastically on new models of Laguiole knives. It does not matter, they create a models close to the ancient or modern prototypes. Such artists and fashion houses like Philippe Starck, Yan Pennor's, Erik Raffy, Sonia Rykiel, Nermes, Courreges, Wilmotte - they all bring their own style to work on Laguiole knives. This is a very old and popular design and every kitchen should have at least one, or perhaps a long one and a short one.

The French Laguiole cheese knife has a long, gently curving blade. The curve is usually more pronounced near the tip. The dropped edge gives good finger clearance for chopping and dicing vegetables by rapidly rocking the knife up and down along its edge. Blade length can run from 5 to 12 inches or more. A good size for the home cheese knife is about 8 inches. The dropped edge can be from 1 inch to about 1-1/2 inches below the handle. The handle of a chefs knife, as well as all chopping and carving knife handles, should be large enough to accommodate the full grasp of a closed hand.

The blade of Laguiole cheese knives has a high, fine, hollow grind, or a fine wedge shape. The first 1/2 inch or so of steel above the cutting edge should be as thin and strong as possible for minimum cutting resistance, as well as ease of sharpening. If it is finely ground upto 1/2 inch, it will take an easy edge, even after many years of sharpening. It is best to first grind to only a moderately thin edge, then temper, and complete the grinding of the very fine edge on a belt grinder or a water-cooled grinder. I have warped more cheese knives in the tempering process than I care to think about.

Nowadays, knives Forge de Laguiole - source of pride of the French, belonging to the range of "high fashion". A trademark, which is engraved at the base of the blade of each knife, is your guarantee of its origin. This logo is owned by Forge De Laguiole on the rights of exclusivity. It indicates that the knife was produced at the plant owned by the company.

Forge de Laguiole knives with a famous stamp - steel bee, became known outside of France. Many sommeliers, restaurateurs and just people who know a lot of beautiful things and quality, give preference to the brand Laguiole.