On a hot summer day in 1927, Norwegian carpenter Thor Bjørklund invented the first cheese slicer when the lunch his wife had prepared for him included some Gouda cheese. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your viewpoint) his cheese had melted and did not look so appetizing. To avoid having to eat so much Thor first tried slicing the cheese with a knife and then a saw, with little success. He then used his wood planer and though it was bulky and difficult to use, his crude cheese slicer worked. The next day he fabricated a smaller cheese slicer using a thin slice of steel with the back end curved up to allow the cheese to pass through. Thor soon found himself making additional cheese slicers for his friends and family and by the fall had filed for a patent for his new invention. Patent-number 43377 *story provided by the Norwegian patent office |
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| This is the best-seller of the cheese slicers. It works good on most hard cheeses. We have two different types of this model, one with straight edge, and one with serrated edge as seen below. |
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| This one is also called the combination slicer, because of the serrated sides, it can also do service as cheese knife. Well suited for most cheese types. |
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| This is the best-seller of the cheese slicers. It works good on most hard cheeses. We have two different types of this model, one with straight edge,as seen above, and one with serrated edge. |
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