Can anyone tell me how to cut malt loaf without it going into a sticky compacted wedge?

[glammama]

In all my 33 years I have never perfected this. It's particularly driving me crazy tonight.

bread knife

Ditto buying it pre-sliced...or, if you have a REALLY super-duper mega-sharp knife, why don't you freeze the loaf first? It doesn't freeze totally so you'll still be able to eat it soon afterwards.

serrated knife, and don't squeeze the loaf while you do it, or you end up with bow tie hape slices a la dh. at the moment i am mostly enjoying the cinammon and raisin version.

use a bread knife/other sharp knife and a sawlike motion

Saw not squash, saw not squash. It's the mantra when slicing all loaves from malt to meat and everything in between.

A sharp knife definitely helps.

Or you could just enjoy the way it goes really dense and squashy in the middle when it's wedgy shaped. And know that you can have twice as many slices because they have half the surface area!

Get one of thise great big bread cutting machines with scarey blades and put it through. But this is really only if you must... I prefer to cut it lengthways and make an almond butter and jam sandwich with it

Fatty fatty bum bum...

get the pre sliced one.

I buy it ready sliced too, my reasoning is that the ready sliced one has more in it than the unsliced, much more once you take into account there's less wastage, and it's only 30p more!

DON'T press down when you cut - just saw away lightly

failing that cut lengthways?!

shall i own up to the fact that i ate an entire loaf a couple of weeks ago

We all have, surely...[eyes dart around]

it may be why my old posting name was fattiemumma lol

Lol - well it can't have been malt loaf that gave you that name, coz I eat it all the time and am skinny

It contains fruit and therefore no calories. Even when topped with spread and jam. Zilch.

And you probably burn more calories in the process of eating it than it would give anyway:

Sneaking in to the kitchen, which uses your abs and buttocks, then using core muscles to get the packet out without rustling, tiptoeing (which works the calves),to the jam and knife and spreading lashings on it.

Then it's so chewy that you are working out your jaws get a good going over, So there you go, an all over workout!

you see now i am liking your thinking here shrooms.

wishi had some in teh house as i really fancy a soreen workout now

Feel the burn...

Wow, you guys took the malt loaf baton and really ran with it! I was in bed otherwise I would have loved to join in. I'm liking the cutting it lengthways and the almond butter option. As it's only me that really likes it in this house I'm just going to tear chunks off it. And maybe I'll look for the ready sliced option. Who knows, maybe I'll end up preferring the sticky compacted wedges I cut anyway. Right I'm off to the kitchen to have a little fooster in the bread bin...........

Imagine if there was actually an MN relay race involving battens of malt loaf...

Would we be allowed to carry the batten in our mouth?

there would be NO chance of us dropping it...

Or handing it over......

Does it matter??

matter about what, soupdragon?

It's supposed to be eaten in fat gloopy squashed lumps surely? With real butter slices on top [childhood memories emoticon]

Ready sliced is but a parody of malt loaf.

Do you like enough butter to leave toothmarks in too then, themoon66?