F. Dick Superior 10-inch Reverse Scalloped Bread Knife

Most bread knives have teeth cut into the blade. This Superior knife has scallops that protrude from the edge instead, so it cuts on the scallops rather than on points. The result is smoother cuts and a knife that splits cakes and slices meat as well as bread.

One of our team uses it at home and points out that it has a very wide bevel on one side, which makes it easy to hone with a regular cut steel, unusual for a bread knife. The same member of staff finds it slices proteins as smoothly as it does crusty loaves.

It is a good knife for a household that wants one long serrated blade for both bread and roasts.

For a conventional bow-shaped bread knife, the Superior 10-inch bread knife is the counterpart. The Superior 11-inch serrated slicer is longer for ham and turkey, and an offset option is the Superior 7-inch offset serrated knife.