Want to make bread again but can’t slicing the bloody thing

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Can’t face slicing it! Any tips? Have this bread maker and want to go back to making bread again but the effort of slicing it was too much!!

@Tessisme if the sliced thing is like the one I have you can turn the part with the bumps on upside down to make thinner slices.

Agree not all bread knives are the same, it's worth finding a good one that "suits" your bread. They can be blunt and useless. The coloured ones are quite sharp [[
https://www.kuhnrikon.co.uk/colori-plus-bread-knife#color_swatch=45?auto_apply_coupon=GOOGLE20
Also don't slice warm bread unless you are stealing the first crust . You might need to adjust your recipe to get a softer crust or avoid a crumbly top half.

We used to cut the loaf in half to freeze, then you can defrost and slice half at a time?

Now I'm wondering what one you have! Mine is a wood and metal thing that cost me a small fortune, so I'm determined to persevere with it, even though I'm convinced there must be wood and metal shavings on every slice😅

Change your bread knife and it will sort your problem out :)

I know what you mean. My tips, from when I used a bread maker on the largest setting, are:

Leave bread to cool and crisp up a bit for at least an hour after taking it out of the bread maker

Cut the loaf in half, top to bottom in the middle of the loaf.

Then turn the cut half down flat on the board, and cut your slices across the width of the loaf (so that your slices are half the size they'd otherwise be across the whole loaf. (I hope that makes sense!)

I could never manage neat whole slices, so find it much easier to cut more, smaller slices than fewer massive ones that are a wedge at the top and a sliver at the bottom (or vice versa ).

HTH.

Also, a decent bread knife. We had a global one, which was great.

Decent bread knife.

The slicing guide is a game changer though:

amzn.eu/d/bZavOTg

This one is great as it keeps the bread fresh too

I have a Panasonic which makes quite tall loaves, and they are impossible to slice well when new. I leave my loaf out, uncovered, on a cooling rack overnight before trying to slice it, so the crust gets nice and firm, and the crumb has some solidity to it. Then I can slice as thinly as thick-sliced supermarket bread, which is how I like it.

I have one of these bread slicing guides (although it wasn't this expensive!) https://amzn.eu/d/0sx1IgK

Make baps.

@Tessisme an older grey plastic Lakeland version.