This Brilliant Cheese-Slicing Hack Blew Our Minds

Let’s start with an apology. We’re sorry we didn’t bring this hack to you back in November, before all the holiday cheese boards and charcuterie boards. Trust us, if we had known about this trick back then, we would have shared it with you. 

Fortunately, cheese isn’t just a holiday food. It’s everyday food for many of us, and there are always occasions to make cheeseboards, like birthdays, anniversaries, Valentine’s Day, an Oscar party, the big bowl game, or just your average Tuesday, to name a handful of occasions.

If you’re the one who always volunteers to bring the cheese to an event, and you like your cheese boards to look professional with uniform slices, you need to know about this trick. 

How to Use a Fork to Uniformly Slice Cheese

This viral cheese-cutting tip that spread.the.grub posted on Instagram is so simple and so genius. 

Here’s how it works. Grab a dinner fork (any regular old dinner fork). Grab your block of cheese. This trick seems like it would work best with a semi-hard cheese such as Cheddar, Gouda, Swiss, or provolone. It wouldn’t work very well with a soft goat cheese or Brie that isn’t easily sliceable. Hard cheeses, such as Grana Padana or Parmesan, would probably crumble under the knife. 

But for those cheeses that are cut into slices cleanly, this method will make easy work out of uniformity.

Simply put the ends of the fork tines on the edge of the block of cheese and lightly press down to create evenly spaced indentations. Pick up the fork, move it sideways, and press it down again with the outside tine on the innermost indentation. Continue until the block of cheese has indentations across the entire length. 

When you’re done, you'll have evenly-spaced guide marks for cutting uniform slices of cheese. Genius!

Now you can add those slices to a well-curated cheese board with jams (a good go-to with Cheddar is often a pepper jam), cured meat, nuts, olives, fruit, and slices of baguette. 

If you have any leftover cheese at the end of the evening, don’t forget to wrap it and store it properly so it doesn’t dry out before you’re ready to snack on it or make your next cheese board.