I bought my husband a rather splendid cheese knife for Christmas.
I know, I know, an extravagant gesture on my part, but after 11 years of being a non-cheese knife household I saw an opportunity to add to the social climbing rungs, with the added bonus that cheese was involved.
With cheese and crackers being a family favourite luncheon, the knife has been used on numerous occasions already, but to my dying shame, a huge gap in my cheese eating etiquette has been revealed.
Obviously I can't talk about this in RL, but I know you won't judge me on my ignorance.
My problems are:
-One cuts a slab from a particularly nice stilton, and horrors - it crumbles into twenty pieces 
how does one get them from the platter to the plate? Picking them up one at a time using the forked end of the knife only draws attention to the faux pas by hogging the cheeses from the hordes waiting for them.
-I have also been left with a smoked Austrian cheese dappled with stilton and looks as though it's a month old and moldy 
So after cutting one cheese, how do you stop the knife infecting the next cheese you cut?
I would naturally have asked our butler about these nuances of cheese eating, but we had to turn him out without references recently, and the under butler who has taken up his duties doesn't cut the mustard
Please help.