Is it a height thing? I'm unusually tall for a girl and have no problem cutting bread (well, no-one complains) and I think it might be that I'm far enough above the worktop + cutting board to be able to control the knife.
Maybe??
Got any short guys on here - can they cut bread?
Rachel
why don't you just buy sliced bread?
37 years ago I spent several weeks of the first year of my apprenticeship learning how to hacksaw and file things straight. I've always thought it was the lack of this training that resulted in my wife leaving the bread looking like she attacked it with an axe, but I'm glad to hear it's not an isolated occurrence 
why don't you just buy sliced bread?
Heathen
PS Don't get me started on the way she hacks at a block of cheese 
She says I have OCD, maybe she's right 
You've only just noticed op!
Agree, for the same reasons there aren't many women carpenters s'pose.
PeterPoddy - MemberThe only woman I ever saw cut bread straight was my Grandma, God rest her soul, who used to stand ther loaf on end and cut horizontally! WTF is that all about?
She was in service as a young woman - dunno if she learnt to cut bread then
why don't you just buy sliced bread?
me as well, who has time to cut bread for toast in the morning? It's as much as I can do to put the slices in the toaster.
I too despair of people leaving cheese packets open, the wife doesn't even eat cheese she just hacks bits off for the nipper, then wraps it in approximatley 3feet of clingfilm, but still manages to leave atleast 2 corners uncovered.
Then I got a left-handed knifeI wondered where you were going with this but serrated yes I can see that, most serrated knives only seem to be bevelled on one side.
Very insightful post by sharki there!
I'd like to see a an interplanetary flying vagina
hang on, hang on - can't believe there's a manchat going on and toys19 wasn't given the appreciation he deserved for managing to segue in a reference to 'space lady bits'.
Oh and our bread looks like the victim of what the papers call a 'frenzied attack' if my wife tries to cut toast in the morning.
why don't you just buy sliced bread?
Same. I don't even have time for toast in the morning. Glass of water and go. Breakfast at my desk at work. Kills 10 minutes doesn't it. 
TIP: When applying butter to thinly sliced bread, use the back of a desert spoon. It won't tear the bread.
When I discovered this and showed my Mum some 30 years ago, she clipped me around the ear and scolded me for being 'not right'.
why don't you just buy sliced bread?
Because it's a chemistry experiment not proper bread. (20+ years of flour milling to back this up).
Proof!!!!
Last night I was asked to sort the loaf out by Mrs PP. Even she couldn't work out how she'd cut it so badly, so today my sandwich looks like this:
Untitled by PeterPoddy, on Flickr
She suggested I post this too!
They don't, generally, use chainsaws...
Ace thread.................but then I can cut bread like a 6ft6 right handed male surgeon ;-D
I couldn't slice bread for love nor money - until I started using a chainsaw as a teenager.
Amazing how that makes you concentrate on what you are doing. For me it was watching what the tip of the chainsaw blade was doing that made a difference to my bread sawing
PeterPoddy, you appear to have taken a picture of two peppered kippers with a piece of bacon rind in between?
Has anyone pointed out the blatant misogyny in this thread yet?
just to mix this up.teenagers are also equally inept at cutting a loaf...but both sexes of mine are useless!
also the amount of loaf squashing that happens is four times greater with yoof's.a freshly baked, straight from the oven bloomer is doomed!
Has anyone pointed out the blatant misogyny in this thread yet?
Only you. And you're wrong. Go look the word up and understand it before you use it.
PeterPoddy, you appear to have taken a picture of two peppered kippers with a piece of bacon rind in between?
LOL! 
Nice Sainsbury's nutty/seedy brown, turkey and pastrami! Yum!
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