No.116 Kitchen Bread Knife

Bread is the brick and mortar of our culinary experience. Often overlooked unless incredible or terrible, bread is the only reason sandwiches aren't meat salads and pizza isn't tomato soup. It's only fair that a food so elemental gets its own knife. Designed with a serrated blade perfect for cutting through a wide variety of grains, the knife is as necessary as the food it's slicing, and even easier to clean.

Joseph Opinel grew up in a family of blacksmiths and took over the workshop in the French Alps in 1890. He pioneered the Opinel pocket knife and the world’s been in love with it ever since.