When I’m out and about and I want to slice my artisanal organic sourdough boules to spread with cultured raw butter, what do I use as a breadknife?

I had a bit of a Google and didn’t really find anything, which seems surprising. I imagined something like my Bahco Laplander but with a thinner blade would exist but if it does I’m not finding it.

Any recommends?

I just use an Opinel

We do a kayaking trip to the Alps every year, and had just this question – what do I slice my baguette with, cut and spread my brie with, slice my saucisson with, if not my generic manky river knife?

I settled on one of the ‘junior’ Opinel knives. Just as sharp as the grown-up version but not as stabby. It’s ace for summer sandwiching purposes.

https://uk.knivesandtools.eu/en/pt/-opinel-children-s-pocket-knife-no-07rv-jr-blade-length-7-5-cm.htm

Opened thread to say Opinel too.

Just use an axe, like a real man.

A normal non serrated Opinel? Interesting.

This has a serrated no 12 in it which looks good but I can’t see that you can buy it separately.

https://www.opinel.com/en/kitchen/nomad-cooking-kit/nomad-cooking-kit

Axe? I use a .45 Magnum at the moment.

“What are you building lads?”

“Sandwiches”

A folding Japanese saw from Workshop Heaven. I’ve got this one.

Measure twice, slice once.

I have a Lamson Bâtard Folding Picnic knife. It is a wonderful thing. A quick google suggests it will be very hard to get hold of in the uk now.

Picknicing is infinitely more satisfying when accompanied by shouts of Pass the Bâtard!

I use The Masamune Katana The preferred weapon of Immortal Connor MacLeod, the ivory-handled Masamune katana is a weapon like no other. It was forged in 593 B.C. by the legendary master swordsmith Masamune for Immortal Juan Sánchez Villa-Lobos Ramírez, as a dowry for his marriage to Princess Shakiko.

I rip the rolls apart as you’re meant to!

Camping and living in tents and vans for periods of time I have not yet found the need for a folding bread knife!

I genuinely saw the thread title and thought WTF is “folding bread”?

Personally, I’d just carry an Opinel and a Gerber Flatiron…

It’s not a small knife, it’s perfectly capable of slicing through a decent sized baguette or baton, and the blade is ideally shaped for spreading butter and slicing any variety of tasty fillings…

Not that expensive, about £45-50 or so, and very solidly built, with a tough Micarta scale on one side of the handle, which is very grippy; standard is an olive green, mine’s a sort of blue-grey, a limited run Drop offer.

I use The Masamune Katana The preferred weapon of Immortal Connor MacLeod, the ivory-handled Masamune katana is a weapon like no other. It was forged in 593 B.C. by the legendary master swordsmith Masamune for Immortal Juan Sánchez Villa-Lobos Ramírez, as a dowry for his marriage to Princess Shakiko.

Can you get them on AliExpress?

The folding saw looks cool but still a bit spendy. The Lamson thing would have been perfect.

One of our Mora Companion knives was deployed today for this exact job.
There was a set of baps to slice, pork pie to divide into thirds and an apple to quarter & core.
All while sat on a beach on Loch Rannoch.

Sounds like heaven.

I managed with a Gerber suspension but it wasn’t great. I make lots of bread and often have really big open crumb loaves which are not too easy to slice without hacking them apart.

Maybe I should just take a proper breadknife.

Wire saw?

Not as handcrafted as previous suggestions. I’ve mostly used my Petzl Spatha climbing knife for sandwich making and other food prep.

Half serrated and half non-serrated blade for all occasions

I genuinely saw the thread title and thought WTF is “folding bread”?

Mora do a serrated blade knife which will be both cheap and awesome. Failing that, just use an Opinel or, as has been said, just break it with your hands like a civilised person.

MSR has cheap kitchen knives for outdoor chefs https://www.msrgear.com/ie/cookware/camp-kitchen-and-utensils/alpine-kitchen-knife/07091.html plus a bigger model but they are non-foldable.
Why the requirement for folding?

pork pie to divide into thirds and an apple to quarter & core.

This suggests you were out with some weirdo who is a Pork Pie refusenik. They should be purged from your life.

What artisnal condiment spoon did you use for distribution of the wholegrain mustard?

Self carved I hope…

how big is your boule?

pretty much any sharp knife will do this, as long as it’s either long enough to cut it in one go or at least 50% of the length of the bread so you can go around it

you don’t need serrations if it’s sharp

i’ve used everything from a large fixed blade knife to the knife I keep on my keyring, they all work.

I think the question is how artisanal do you want the knife to be?

MSR alpine knife looks handy and cheap. Doesn’t have to be folding I guess but a full length bread knife would be too big.

Boule is around 30cm diameter usually.

Call me a weirdo but there’s something that feels wrong about using a non serrated blade to cut bread, even if it works fine.

What I really want is that opinel no 12 serrated out of the nomad kitchen set but not really the rest of it. Surprised I can’t find it separately

It’s obviously not essential but I put a lot of time/care into making bread and preparing food and I’d rather not just hack it apart. Also, this is STW so I shouldn’t need to justify unnesccesary purchases, especially of knives. 🙂

Think I’ll just get one of these from a Mora recommendation up there, thanks peeps.

https://www.cyclaireshop.co.uk/outdoor-knives/rescue-emergency-security/mora-clipper-rescue-blunt-tip