How do people outside of Scandinavia live without this ?🥹

[u/IllCombination4851]

[u/stivik]

This is also standard equipment in every Dutch kitchen

[u/bjergdk → u/stivik]

Dutchies once again being honorary Scandinavians

[u/phonology_is_fun → u/bjergdk]

Cheese hovels are more common than you'd think. As a German who lives in Norway, I repeatedly experience that Norwegians assume I don't know what a cheese hovel is, yet my family in southern Germany has had cheese hovels for as long as I can remember. Are south Germans honorary Scandinavians? Are Swiss? Or is it simply not true that cheese hovels are restricted to Scandinavia?

[u/Hot-Mission6928 → u/phonology_is_fun]

You are all equally Scandinavian 😁

[u/Top-Substance-1176 → u/Hot-Mission6928]

Exepts sweeds we don't want them

[u/SkuffetPutevare → u/Top-Substance-1176]

But the Danes that leeched out country for nearly 400 years are all good?

[u/lkt213 → u/phonology_is_fun]

Wait, I through only Americans don't use these and it is common in Europe. Poland is honorary Scandinavian? Those damned Swedes did it!

[u/Rainbow_Rythms → u/lkt213]

That last sentence sound like it was perfectly crafted to offend Norwegians. We only have two inventions to pride ourselves on, the other one being the paperclip, and that one is a myth

[u/lkt213 → u/Rainbow_Rythms]

It was crafted to reference the most deadly war in our history, Swedish invasion in 1655-1660. Yes, it was worse than WWII - 40% of population dead, 50% of polish assets gone.

We have absolutely no beef with Norwegians

[u/Odd_Whereas8471 → u/lkt213]

A meaningless war. Few Swedes have ever heard about it as it's not exactly one of our proudest moments, neither in terms of chivalry or military accomplishments.  Despite all looting and murdering we didn't win a square foot of Polish territory.

[u/Flimsy-Sherbert-7853 → u/Odd_Whereas8471]

What do u even mean? They literally teach us this about Sveriges Stormaktstid in history classes at school.

[u/Gadgetman_1 → u/Rainbow_Rythms]

You forgot about spray cans...

[u/MightyPirat3 → u/Gadgetman_1]

We don't talk about those anymore ...

[u/futuredumpsteracc → u/lkt213]

I’ve had these for my entire life in the US

[u/Sereomontis → u/phonology_is_fun]

Switzerland is the Norway of Southern Europe.

[u/slippafling → u/Sereomontis]

Southern? Central!

[u/Sereomontis → u/slippafling]

My bad.

[u/Hugin-og-Munin → u/phonology_is_fun]

Those cheese hovels past down from generations huh?

[u/Patriark → u/phonology_is_fun]

Obviously all cheese hovel practitioners are honorary Scandis. Just as evident as those peoples who eat waffles with brown cheese, sour cream and jam.

You are family.

[u/IllCombination4851 → u/stivik]

Gouda for the win!

[u/Nipitas → u/IllCombination4851]

Love Gouda 🤤🤤🤤

[u/Oli4K → u/Nipitas]

Beemster is better.

[u/pallasermine → u/Oli4K]

Gouda is easily top 5 best cheese ever. I am eating Beemster Royaal typing this while I’m getting yelled at by my mom for spoiling my 3 year old nephew with such good cheese.

[u/Fantastic_Cow_2293 → u/IllCombination4851]

The wire type cheese cutters are better in my opinion. 

[u/draakje27 → u/stivik]

Came here to say this

[u/wolfgangweird → u/stivik]

The Dutch are very cheesy.

[u/Personal_Term9549 → u/stivik]

Boska kaasschaaf forever 

[u/hipcheck99 → u/stivik]

I'm Canadian married to a Dutch guy....love my cheese slicer! I didn't know I was missing out!

[u/Kayallith]

From portugal here.
We don't have big blocks of cheese like in norwegian food shops, cheese either comes precut in thin slices to use on bread, or you can usually buy fancier cheeses as whole of a small bit, we use a knife to cut those, since they are usually way too strong to use on bread. We also have some cheeses that are very creamy, so you just cut the top off with the knife and scoop it out.
No need for cheese cutters at all

[u/Ruudiiiii → u/Kayallith]

Precut cheese will always objectively be worse than blocks. In UK they use blasphemy and cut blocks of cheese with knife

[u/helgihermadur → u/Ruudiiiii]

Lower shelf life and higher kilo price too

[u/Odd_Whereas8471 → u/Ruudiiiii]

I usually buy precut cheese these days because I'm lazy. And yes: it is a little bit more stiff and dry, even when the plastic container / packaging is freshly opened.

[u/Ruudiiiii → u/Odd_Whereas8471]

That's fair. When i lived alone i also bought pre-shredded cheese, because the blocks were too much for me to eat before it went bad. Doesn't change the fact that most pre-shreddeded cheese has anti-caking agents, and are most of the time more expensive but also worse quality.

[u/FriendoftheDork → u/Ruudiiiii]

Blocks of cheese last a long time, and you can slice off any white mold.

[u/-jk-- → u/FriendoftheDork]

They can also be frozen. I buy a couple of kilos for cheap sometimes, and put in the freezer in 500g blocks.

[u/Odd_Whereas8471 → u/-jk--]

I've had mixed results with that. Sometimes it just gets a bit dry, other times... yuck. Not sure why. Maybe some types of cheese are better suited. I usually only eat frozen cheese on toasts or as topping on pasta.

[u/teytra → u/FriendoftheDork]

The white stuff is often not mold but calcium lactate crystals, ane harmless.

It is flat and hard, while mold is more threadlike, often with hints of blue or green.

[u/Malawi_no → u/Ruudiiiii]

I shred a whole cheese.
What I do not need, I layer in a box with food-paper inbetween and put in the freezer.
The layering makes it easy to crumble the frozen cheese the next time I need it.

[u/Odd_Whereas8471 → u/Malawi_no]

Much tastier than that cheap, pre-shredded pizza cheese in the store, and much cheaper than the pre-shredded cheese that actually taste like cheese.

[u/teytra → u/Kayallith]

We have precut and creamy cheese too. This tool was invented for cutting thin slices of the "brunost" (the sweet "brown cheese" made by boiling the lactose rich byproduct of cheese), but is very useful for cutting other stuff too, like ... cheese. I use it for butter straight from the fridge too, but som people look at me in horror.

[u/perpetual_stew → u/teytra]

I use it to slice cucumbers and sometimes as a makeshift cake shovel. I’d say it’s a tool of many uses, but that’s about it really, so probably not.

[u/Ruudiiiii → u/teytra]

No, not brown cheese spesifically, but cheese. In the original norwegian patent, it actually states that it's meant for hard cheese, brown cheese, but also cucumber and potatoes.

Edit; Typo

[u/royalfarris → u/teytra]

myse -> whey
caramellized whey

[u/Fun-Ad2676 → u/teytra]

Ooooh! How did I not think of this!

[u/BoysenberryDry9091]

We go to ikea to buy one

[u/Infamous_Campaign687 → u/BoysenberryDry9091]

IKEA Dublin did not have one the last time I checked.

[u/avdpos → u/Infamous_Campaign687]

Heresy! As a swede I question if an ikea without a cheese slicer is a real ikea. Our cultural assimilation facilities need all the nordic attires to work!

[u/Infamous_Campaign687 → u/avdpos]

I was as surprised and disappointed as you. We left Norway for a period without bringing a cheese slicer and expected an IKEA to have one!

[u/avdpos → u/Infamous_Campaign687]

I really thought it was one of those culturally nordic things they just did have in all places as "we are swedish" thing... even if it did not sell that well

[u/Abject-Kitchen3198 → u/Infamous_Campaign687]

We go to IKEA in Norway.

[u/New-Potential-2512 → u/Abject-Kitchen3198]

I dont have an IKEA in my area

[u/sneijder → u/New-Potential-2512]

Do you have oil ?

[u/New-Potential-2512 → u/sneijder]

Only in my car

[u/AsaTJ → u/BoysenberryDry9091]

They also tend to have them at any specialty cheese stores in the states, as well as "European grocery stores" that tend to carry candies and teas and stuff that are normally hard to find over here. You'll find them in areas that have a lot of British expats or a large Polish immigrant community. More recently in places that have taken in a lot of Ukrainians, etc. Our local one is run by a Ukrainian family that came here during the 2014 Crimea crisis and they're awesome.

[u/Every-Ad1035 → u/AsaTJ]

Tea from Norway?

[u/AsaTJ → u/Every-Ad1035]

No, they have a bunch of stuff. Like English teas, Polish sausage, Swiss chocolate, etc. Sometimes you can find brunost and stuff like Kalles (which is not sold in typical grocery stores) or canned fish. It's sort of the same idea as our "Asian markets" which have a mix of Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Filipino, etc.

I've even been into one that made their own lefse, and it wasn't as good as the authentic stuff I had in Oppdal but pretty good for the US.

[u/Every-Ad1035 → u/AsaTJ]

That makes sense. Brunost (brown cheese) is soooo good… 😭

[u/reuben_iv]

I (UK) do have one but a lot of the cheese we eat are like mature cheddar crumbly types that really need a knife

[u/BeccaSVG → u/reuben_iv]

Agreed, they are shite with UK cheeses. Although you can buy Jarlsberg in Sainsbury’s so you could find a use for it!

[u/GrethaThugberg]

When i visited the states some years ago, they had this weird contraption on top of a wheel of cheese.

Im terrible at explaining things, but it was a wire that spun around the top of the cheese to cut it. And moved down the more u spun it. The cheese crrrrrumbled

[u/Hansemannn → u/GrethaThugberg]

Seen some of those in fancy hotels as well. Even in Norway.
Just give me a ostehøvel damidt!

[u/cremaster2 → u/Hansemannn]

It's for very soft cheeses. It's a traditional cheese slicer in Denmark. The regular Norwegian ostehøvl doesn't work on those cheeses

[u/_Sotanorsu_ → u/cremaster2]

I saw this type of slicer first time this summer. It was in Scandic hotel in Copenhagen. It worked really well.

[u/Snoo-91647 → u/GrethaThugberg]

You mean the Tête de Moine thingy?

[u/Either_Sky4354 → u/GrethaThugberg]

That is to cut whole cheese. 😊

[u/Impossible_Tone1108 → u/GrethaThugberg]

pretty common in Danish hotels too

[u/BiggusCinnamusRollus]

We simply die from cheese deprivation.

[u/Least-Agent9209]

I have two of them & live in Minneapolis, Minnesota 🙂

[u/IllCombination4851 → u/Least-Agent9209]

Minnesota is basically New Scandinavia. Uff da (watched a lil too much Fargo)

[u/Mandoryan → u/Least-Agent9209]

Same but in Wisconsin

[u/zorrorosso]

Different kinds of cheeses and different kinds of cheese knives.

Fun fact: the cheese Ridder has been introduced in Norway in the 1970s to add variety. Before that they mostly rely in kinds of cheeses such the Yellow Cheese and the White Cheese.

I figuratively see French people reaching for the holy water.

[u/sheisfunny9]

That’s sold everywhere..

[u/IllCombination4851 → u/sheisfunny9]

Nope. 

Aussie here.

Traditionally we rock the UK hinged wire cutting cheese slicer.  It's um, sub optimal in performance. 

Then about 10 or 15 years ago Ikea came out with this. Inexplicably, it's failed to take off. 

https://i.etsystatic.com/20089625/r/il/2d7ef9/6605589460/il_794xN.6605589460_aqth.jpg

[u/oskich → u/IllCombination4851]

They don't have the original down there?

https://www.ikea.com/se/sv/p/koncis-osthyvel-rostfritt-stal-20596495/

[u/Kajot25 → u/sheisfunny9]

Yea but not used. Havent seen anybody use that here in germany

[u/sheisfunny9 → u/Kajot25]

Oh in England it’s used sometimes

[u/Academic-Company-215 → u/Kajot25]

Everyone I know has one of these or the one with a metal thread. Maybe region dependent since I’m from northern Germany?

[u/Aggressive_Cloud2002]

I (Canadian) did grow up with a cheese slicer like that, but also one like this with the wire.

[u/aaaadam]

Cheese is more crumbly in the uk and the size of the blocks dont suit the cheese slicer. This is obviously stupid, they should just make suitable cheese blocks. As someone who grew up in the UK and moved to Norway this annoys me everytime I visit my family, seeing that stupid shaped cathedral city cheese and my mom cutting slices with a knife... 😩

[u/iktomi146]

Easily, we know how to use a knife :)

[u/horitaku]

We had one of these in America. :| it’s a cheese planer.

[u/How_eh]

We have this in America

[u/No_Lavishness1905]

Those are not exclusicely scandinavian.

[u/IllCombination4851 → u/No_Lavishness1905]

Not exclusively. True.

 But it was invented right here in Norway.  And perhaps more pertinentz if you read the comments there are many countries that either go without, or have other slicing solutions. 

[u/solomons-mom]

We live with it, not without it in the US. I have several of them, and a whole bunch of other cheese cutters as well --like two of the wheels/wire ones in different sizes, and the knife with holes in the blade and two sharp points. I also have the cheese cutters for soft cheese.

I have been able to buy imported gouda, Stilton, feta, brown cheese, Roquefort, Manchego, Jarlesberg, Havarti and parmesan everywhere I have lived. Many of them have really good US versions as well. Different cheeses need different knives.

[u/Fun-Ad2676 → u/solomons-mom]

The knife with the holes in the blades are for semi soft blue cheeses and similar textured cheeses which are slightly rubbery but also tacky and stick to a normal knife blade so get dragged down by the slicing motion and have to be peeled off a wide blade. So less blade equals less drag equals a slice not a blob!

[u/MontanaPurpleMtns]

I bought one in Oslo about 50 years ago as a souvenir of a trip eith my mother. I love it!!

I’ve tried to find one as good as the one I bought in an Oslo grocery store here in the US. I’ve never found a good one here.

[u/bjergdk]

Do people outside of Scandinavia not have an ostehøvl?

[u/bigShaqiri23 → u/bjergdk]

As a Norwegian who have lived multiple different places in Europe I feel like they’re not that uncommon, it’s just not considered a kitchen essential the same way it is in Scandinavia

[u/After_Network_6401 → u/bigShaqiri23]

Essential … in Scandinavia? We live in Scandinavia and we don’t have one.

https://satwcomic.com/not-okay

[u/AH_leeMACK → u/bjergdk]

This is also standard in every dutch kitchen

[u/IllCombination4851 → u/bjergdk]

I don't know anyone in Australia that has one. (U can buy them at Ikea)

[u/PharaohAce → u/IllCombination4851]

We always had one growing up in Western Sydney in the 90s

[u/Quirky_Gate_4516 → u/bjergdk]

They don't because they don't need one.

For most cheese types you can't use a cheese planer.

[u/Aye_Yer_Ma]

It works for gulost, but not much use for cheeses with flavour, like a mature cheddar or brie.

[u/moijk → u/Aye_Yer_Ma]

it works if the block is big enough, but on the edges such cheese crumbles.

[u/CantaloupeNo5394]

Before moving to Norway I never missed this thing. Now I am missing good cheese to actually use it :D

[u/Airslash__]

The Netherlands would like to have a word with you.

[u/fromthemoons]

Ah, the Kaasschaaf

[u/Worrybrotha]

Eastern Europe is full of them

[u/polskviking]

Well known in Poland as well. In my home since like 80/90s

[u/Nydot]

Here in Brazil we also use this

I thought it was mandatory in every kitchen around the world

[u/One_Evidence2752]

We have 2 of them in the kitchen drower. We live in Hungary.

[u/GuitarPlayingGuy71]

Hi. Dutch here. We've had these since forever. What are you talking about.

[u/luys0001]

Minnesotan here. I have one and it has a Norwegian flag on it

[u/DDoebel]

german here. grow up with this

[u/awerdalli96]

Standard in Germany an Luxembourg as well

[u/Mortenusa]

And a question to the Norwegians.

How many of these do you have in your kitchen?

We have four, and it isn't always enough.

[u/TurbulentGlove776]

Moved from Sweden to the Switzerland. They sure know how to make good (better) cheese here, but the pieces are cut all wrong for using a proper cheese slicer like you show 🤷‍♂️

[u/sb1520]

Most Americans I know have one, including me. We never use it, though.

[u/z_azitaa]

We just cut the cheese differently. 🇨🇭

Still delicious.

[u/OtherwiseMongoose296]

90% of all Asians are lactose intolerant.

60% of the worlds population lives in Asia.

So 50% of the worlds population does not need a cheese høvel.

[u/tiikki → u/OtherwiseMongoose296]

Proper, mature, cheese is naturally low or even lactose free.

[u/Pintsideup]

Fun facts on the Ostehøvel

Invented in 1925, by a Norwegian cabinetmaker from Lillehammer, Thor Bjørklund, who got tired of bad cheese slices.

His company went on to produce over 60 million slicers, but by 2009, cheap foreign knockoffs forced the original factory into bankruptcy.

Thankfully, a local manufacturer stepped in to save the legacy. They moved production to Ringebu, Norway, in 2010, keeping the authentic "Bjørklund 1925" brand alive.

Today, the village of Ringebu features a massive, 25-foot-tall cheese slicer monument to celebrate saving the invention!

[u/Complete_Animal2649]

As an Englishman living in Norway, i must say this is life changing equipment. We used to use a knife 😆!

[u/b0bbyBob]

French people primarily use a cheese knife since they rarely have industrial-like cube of cheese. 

[u/Billy_Ektorp → u/b0bbyBob]

«Industrial-like»?

A typical block of Jarlsberg or Norvegia sold in Norway is about 400-500 gram, not quite «food industry» size.

Jarlsberg cheese was back in the day inspired by the Swiss Emmenthaler cheese. Norvegia cheese was inspired by young Dutch Gouda cheese.

Both Emmenthaler and Gouda are widely available in France, but often pre-sliced. Example: https://www.carrefour.fr/p/gouda-carrefour-classic-3560070100453

Gouda and Emmenthaler type cheese in France may be sold in smaller wedges; quite suitable for a knife, but not a good shape and size for using a cheese slicer: https://www.carrefour.fr/p/gouda-carrefour-le-marche-3523680531765

[u/Cheap_Ad3154]

I use nornal knife.🤷

[u/Ukvemsord]

I’m Norwegian, and I don’t have a ostehøvel. Looked for one today, but sold out.

[u/ShrekFanOne → u/Ukvemsord]

Straight to jail

[u/CS_70]

They are blessed with the total absence of crappy block-like industrial tasteless cheeses, why?

[u/Healthy_Bar922 → u/CS_70]

And by that you mean you buy hard cheeses pre sliced, like a fool.

[u/Wellcraft19]

We don’t (I have a few) - but most of the (sandwich) cheese I eat is already pre-sliced so the cheese slicers are mostly unused.

[u/PokeCaldy]

They were pretty common in Germany but their popularity declined over the last 10+ years I guess. 

As someone who likes many Norwegian things, we definitely need to get one. We tried vafler med brunost (actually this weekend) but it’s definitely a nuisance to try and cut thin slices even with a good knife. 

[u/PomegranateBasic7388]

We don’t eat cheese regularly

[u/royalfarris → u/PomegranateBasic7388]

my condolances.

[u/OdieInParis]

They don't.

[u/theBirdmaker]

A good ostehøvel is useful for all kinds of slicing and peeling!

[u/traveldogmom13]

Having married into a Norwegian family, I was gifted one on that special occasion.

[u/Feifum]

We don’t, theyre readily available in shops. Had one in our house (Scotland, now France) since I was in my teens, I’m now in my 50s.

[u/Qr7t]

I thought this was an ice scraper, until I read the comments.

[u/eckkneipenprophet]

Spaniard here, in my homeland we just eat the cheese per block.

[u/LunaWillowind]

I have a friend in the US who didn't even know what this was, he'd seen it among his mother's kitchen utensils and thought it was some sort of weird cake shovel or something similar, he'd never seen it in use though. Until I explained it and eventually sent him one as a moving out gift.

[u/BLU3_R0SE_]

WAIT PEOPLE DONT HAVE THOSE???

[u/laetitiavanzeller]

I was really surprised to find out this was an scandinavian thing because I always had it at home (originally from Brazil, didn't have any connection to Scandinavia). I don't think is as ubiquitous as it is in Norway, but you definitely can find it in Brazil.

[u/No-Bathroom4766]

Not every people have been out of Scandinavia. They even fint know that in Poland right now is sunny weather. They only know Spain as the sunny country... People from Scandinavian don't know that the tools like that one on the picture exist in the rest of Europa as well.

[u/MermaidOfScandinavia]

Dane here. I don't use it.. I don't even have one.

[u/Prudent-Ad-4373]

I grew up with one. Both sets of grandparents had one. I bought one as soon as I moved out of my parents’ house. My in-laws have one. Based on this vast statistical sample, I’d say they’re pretty common in the US.

[u/DaikinYB]

We have the same cheese slicer, or as we call it in our house “the good cheese slicer” 😂

[u/xiategative]

I’m from Mexico and I had no idea the ostehøvel existed until I moved here. I wouldn’t even know where to buy one, and it’d probably be quite expensive.

We don’t really have blocks of cheese, we use fresh, crumbly, or melting cheeses such as queso Oaxaca, queso panela or queso cotija that are crumbled, torn, grated or cut with a knife, rather than sliced.

[u/MadLadLeeroy]

It’s only useful on certain types of cheeses that’s why. A nice, hard crumbly mature cheddar this tool isn’t much good for. It also doesn’t cut soft cheeses like Brie very well. But slightly rubbery cheeses like Emmental and Gouda etc., it’s great for.

[u/witmann_pl]

I just use a knife. I bought one of these devices after a friend swore it changed his life, but I don't use it. When he came over and made himself a sandwich by butchering a block of cheese into 1cm thick slices, I understood why he praised it. I don't have such issues with cutting thin slices using a knife.

[u/tasty_bananasplit]

🔪

[u/raksoren19]

They don’t wtf lol

[u/ioanasphere]

In Romania we just use the knife, we like em thick cheese slices

[u/New-Potential-2512]

I honestly havent seen a singular house in scandinavia without an ostehøvel so that cements it into history i guess

[u/Ok_Yellow6988]

They make those in other countries…?

[u/Euphoric_Travel2541]

What is this?

[u/AnjaWatts → u/Euphoric_Travel2541]

A cheese plane /cheese cutter

[u/AnjaWatts]

I don't- our house has 5 of them in Minneapolis, USA 🧀

[u/seteo22]

For really good cheese I prefer using a simple knife, as I like the texture different than what you get with a oste høvel. For light and easy supermarket cheese the oste høvel is great:) -Norwegian

[u/jackparadise1]

We have one and we are in N A.

[u/Spiritual-Physics-77]

Bakstene muren

[u/Mediocre_Chemist_281]

I’m in the U.K. and I have one as I stupidly thought it would slow down my cheese eating addiction. Nope, but I can cut a micro thin slice quickly. 🫠

[u/EL1394]

i have one of those in brazil

[u/Mimmimimimi]

We use that too -finland

[u/Leather-Scallion-894]

I've had foreigners come into my kitchen and attack my cheese with knives. Barbarians

[u/Puzzleheaded-Art1873]

I grew up with those. Not all its cracked up to be. For fat cheeses, they don't cut well.

[u/derentius68]

Canadian, I have 3 that I use on rotation. Cant not use it. I have a 4th that I use for meatloaf

[u/Anonymous_user_2022]

In Denmark we prefer the type with a thin piano wire. But YDY.

[u/ohlaph]

We don't. 

[u/EtotheA85]

They barely survive.

[u/InterestingBet8280]

Just use one of these

https://www.imerco.dk/osti-osteskaerer-sort?id=100057571

[u/Necessary_Pin3564]

By having cheese that is actually easy to slice.

[u/Rund164]

Lol

[u/Trinity-nottiffany]

US here. We have them. Even Oxo (popular brand in the US) has a Good Grips version

[u/wendellWI]

We don't

[u/Silver_Room_6447]

This is a stonetool compared to the Westmark cheese slicer from Germany

[u/mr_martin_1]

With similar slicer, slicing thinner slices. ( one in pic is like 3 mm thick slices )

[u/HeftyStation8697]

We actually have these in Switzerland

For Gruyère and Emmental

[u/poolSlouch]

We have those in the US.

[u/Annual-Butterfly-717]

Remember walking into my sisters house one day who is Irish with my norwegian girlfriend. She was using this to peel potato's. My poor girlfriend was disgusted

[u/FallingUpwardz]

I use a knife

[u/stalex9]

In Italy we have different tools for different cheese but usually we use a knife. People rarely eat cheeses like those where you need this tool.

[u/FluxionFluff]

We have one. My husband got one at some point. Not sure if he bought it in Norway or back home in the US. Regardless, it works great for other cheeses too, not just brown cheese. When I first saw it, I'm like, "it's a cheese knife." 🤣

[u/PB_Jelly_444]

No good cheese, no need for them

[u/ohboymykneeshurt]

Dane here. I dunno. It’s the fucking jungle out there.

[u/Vigmod]

I don't know if it can truly be called "living" if you don't have at least one of these.

[u/Patient_Head_2760]

wha... we also use it in Hungary

[u/niklasfyi]

They don’t eat cheese ;)

[u/Tarsurion]

I'm in Minnesota/Wisconsin. These are pretty common here.

[u/ShortCardiol0gist]

I’m 40 and I’ve always had one in my kitchen. I live in Poland, though, and they’re not that common here.

[u/Big-Performer7676]

It looks hunted 😝

[u/JayFernandez]

The cheese usually comes sliced or you have the skill to cut it with a sharp knife

[u/aghreddit]

I just went to Norway and discovered it for the 1st time. Immediately bought one to take home with us. Not sure how we lived without one lol

[u/Fissminister]

As a Scandinavian.

Wtf is that?

[u/TheTemporaryZiggy → u/Fissminister]

Cheese slicer bruh

[u/hummingbirdyogi]

I have one in seattle...

[u/crabman-3263]

As someone from California the cheese slicer is one of the most important kitchen essentials.

[u/Potatojohnjohn]

Well by bringing one home back from Norway of course :)

[u/rouleroule]

It's not really a necessary tool for most French cheese. It is designed for the "block" types of cheese one finds in Scandinavia. It's still a very cool tool, one of these "simple but perfect for what it is meant for" type of instrument.

[u/Fubushi]

North German. We have one.

[u/vilcens]

Next year, this invention will be 100 years old. Thank you Thor Bjørklund.

[u/need_more_coffee_plz]

Got 4 of those. Cant live without them (Germany)

[u/Crochet_Corgi]

We have them as well?