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Sounds like you have your cranky pants on JB.... its just bread. I prefer to tear mine into chunks and use the base as a trencher for roast boar with a side of ocelot noses

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I just use a mitre box

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Perhaps Emily normally uses a two-handed grip, hacking at the bread in the manner of an inexpert headsman?

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But what if you have one of those square-in-profile pan cooked loaves? Stable whichever way you rest it. Preferably white over-processed yeast bread - it suits shallow thinkers.

Tbh, I've moved to using a sharp non-serrated knife for the robust, hearty sourdoughs I'm banging out of late. I get a cleaner cut, less mess and less crush.

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I'm with you JB, it's not brain surgery (unless one trepans along the side too). I admit, I learnt it after a period of being a dull-witted traditionalist. But I've not looked back.

Cutting bread is also the only reason a serrated knife exists in my kitchen.

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I agree in principle with your serrated knife rule, but we do have a small serrated knife called Bluey who is a dab hand at slicing ripe tomatoes.

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Sharpen your knives or get a ceramic blade

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Apple's news feed give you "one weird trick" articles from non-news sources? That's a compelling argument to continue to have nothing to do with it...

But to humour the substance of this post: I count myself among the stable-base bread cutters, mostly because I don't want to squash or tear it, but also because I like a bit of diagonal on my slices, to make them longer than they would be cut straight across.

So: what's the skinny: why is cutting bread sideways "better" than the other way?

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squashes the bread less

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Never noticed my bread squashed at all. Must only apply to those who cut it with the butter knife.

Learn something new every day. In this case just reinforcing the certainty that other people do things differently...

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Disagreement? I'm being silenced! SILENCED!

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