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The Best Cheese Accessories
What to buy after the knives and boards
You don’t need a lot of equipment to enjoy good cheese. But to get the most out of an outstanding variety, you could add a few things
- Intro
- FEATURE
A Cheese Primer - PRODUCTS
The Best Cheese
Accessories - PROJECT
Make Your Own
Mozzarella - THE TEN
10 Little-Known Cheeses - NAGGING QUESTION
Do People Really Eat Cheese Made with Maggots? 
OBSESSIVES
Cheese Obsessive
After you make your own mozzarella, you’ll need a proper way to slice it. This gadget holds the mozzarella ball steady; with one easy press, you get 12 even slices.
beyond knives and planes and boards. Here are some items we think every budding cheese aficionado should have.
Italiani Cheese Knife Set by Coltellerie Berti
$1,242
Here’s a gift for the cheese fanatic. All knives from Italy’s Coltellerie Berti—with stainless steel blades and natural boxwood handles—are handmade using the same techniques employed when the company was founded in 1895. This set includes hard, semihard, soft, compact, trapezium, spatula, and bow knives.
Cheese Slicer with Grey Cap
$95
Place your cheese on the base of this slicer, turn the handle clockwise, and—voilà!—uniform slices every time. A Swiss-cheese looking cap means the slicer doubles as a storage container.
Red Alessi Parmenide Grater
$19.50
No one wants to waste good Parmigiano-Reggiano. Catch every sliver with this grater and its attached cellar, then pour the shredded cheese out through the small opening that acts like a shaker.
Iglu Cheese Board and Stainless Steel Tray
$72 and $120, respectively
A great metal tray to serve cheeses with, and the domed lid of the cheese board will protect your bounty when entertaining outdoors.
Blomus and Profi Cheese Slicers
$29.50 and $19.90, respectively
Made of stainless steel, from its cutting wire to its platform, the Blomus keeps your cheese stable; you can even adjust the wire tension to suit hard or soft cheeses. If you need something smaller, Profi’s hand-held stainless steel slicer does the job just as well.
Bird Cheese Markers
$48 for a set of four
These handmade markers are a cute addition to any cheese plate. The lead-free pewter-and-stainless-steel markers are crafted using traditional metalsmithing techniques, and the set comes with two sheets of removable blank labels.
Cheese: A Connoisseur’s Guide to the World’s Best by Max McCalman and David Gibbons
$35
The Atlas of American Artisan Cheese by Jeffrey P. Roberts
$35
Laura Werlin’s Cheese Essentials
$24.95
Cheese Primer by Steven Jenkins
$16.95
These are the essential books you need to start a cheese library. They include beautiful photos, engaging stories, and tons of reference material on everything from the types of cheese to making and buying it.
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When I was younger I lived in France and my family had a tupperware version of the above cheese dome - it was plastic, designed to be stored in the fridge but removed before dinner so that the cheeses were room temperature by the time we got to the cheese plate for dessert. I can't fathom spending $70+ on storing cheese but I'm also tired of wrapping up my cheeses separately every night - does anyone have any ideas as to where one can find an affordable, durable "cheese dome" ?
Churchi_s , here are some lower priced alternatives to the cheese dome. Isn't there a tranference problem with storing various cheeses unwrapped together? As for the cheese grater, it reminds me of the Ped Egg.
http://www.crateandbarrel.com/family....
http://www.videocableplaza.com/search...
https://www.freepedegg.com/Default.as...
I think calling this a list of "...some items we think every budding cheese aficionado should have..." is a joke.
All you need to be a cheese aficionado is a knife, some bread, and a willingness to try things that smell bad.
To say that anyone needs any of the above items to better enjoy cheese is just silly. Not only are 100% of the items above unnecessary or way overpriced, but they also create unneccessary barriers (cost and complex looking gizmos) for those 'budding cheese aficianados'.
$1200 for a cheese knife set? Is this promo bit? C'mon guys you can write better stuff than this.
I agree with SRoF; these prices are ridiculous. I would rather spend the money on cheese. Even $48 for 4 markers? I would buy a nice Tete de Moine instead.
Don't forget making your own cheese! Ricki, at www.cheesemaking.com, offers great tools and kits for cheese making. And her classes are a blast!
vyieort, the comma invalidates the URL.
http://www.cheesemaking.com/
I really need a $1,200 hand crafted cigar box with 10 knifes. Who edits this webste? Maybe they're making the cigar box.