Shun Classic 9" Bread Knife

Goes thru bread like a dream AND it’s beautiful too. Worth the high price but it does need good care.

I just recently discovered the joy of 100% rye bread - very healthy, low-carb, high fiber! The problem is that it’s dense, hard, and difficult to slice (without the right tool). I was using a serrated Shun that I think is meant for slicing meat, and it didn’t work at all on the thick, tough crust of the rye loaf. Enter the Shun bread knife - it really helps to have the right tool for the job. This knife slices through the rye like butter; it makes it easy to make even, thin slices of bread, as the rye is better when sliced thin. Definitely a great knife for dense, hard breads, and I imagine that it would work equally well on a lighter type of bread - very happy!

Only knives I’ll buy. Great feel, easily sharpened, high quality. Great aesthetic.

It looks great and cuts even better

This knife completes my set of shun knives. super sharp. great quality.

I run the AM pantry in a higher end restaurant. I slice, on average, 200 orders of toast a day. Plus slice house made breads. Started with a cheap bread knife, bought a couple of higher end bread knives, but the serrations were always too sharp and bit in instead of slicing. The more rounded edges on the serrations of this knife. work much better for me. Incredibly sharp. The handle is not symmetrical. It seems to have been designed for a right handed person, which I am. Fits great, feels great, has perfect balance right at the bolster. Expensive? Yes. Worth the money? For me, certainly yes. I use every work day for hours. Wish I had invested years ago. For a casual cook? Probably not.

Yes, its expensive, but it's sharp and very good at cutting home-made sourdough bread with a thick bottom crust.

There are things in life that rarely happen, but when they do, you want to have the right equipment. I have a winch on my Jeep that rarely gets used, but when I got stuck in the snow last winter, it was so much better to have that, than the alternative solutions of getting out of the snow. I understand that you rarely have the need for a bread knife, and you are probably thinking to yourself, why spend this much money on something that I will probably use a couple times a month if that? Because when it is time to slice that loaf of bread, hallelujah this is slicing nirvana. There is no smashing of the loaf, and the blade slides through as if it were a warm butter knife, and the bread was a stick of butter. I also use it for tomatoes and other foods that can easily be smashed while cutting.Just do it, it's the right choice.