I know bread knives are probably the cheapest knife you can buy, it’s like the most useless knife in any set. Anyway I’d like to supply a local community centre with good bread knives that they can sell. The centre has been donating bread for years, the free bread is basically half of why the centre exists. But it isn’t sliced and people are struggling, they have this supply of bread but they have to cut it themselves and they are all cutting it with whatever they have. Anyway I’d like just one knife that we can sell at cost, we can demonstrate how to use it, and we can even use it ourselves in the centre kitchen. One knife to rule them all. The same knife we use in promotional photos will be the same knife we sell at cost 10 years from now, everyone will be comfortable with seeing it and the idea of cutting bread with it will seem natural to everyone after a while.
So what knife is that. A plastic handled knife I’m guessing, but which one. And will people need to bring them in for sharpening every now and then? The supply of free bread is never going to end and the more members take the fresher each loaf will be, because bakeries are committed to supplying excess capacity and old stock. If more people took up the bread on the regular then there’d be less need to freeze it, lowering freezer costs too.
It’s important it’s cheap enough that the individual cost feels negligible, but quality enough to last and not have the handle break and injure someone somehow. And it’s better that people cut the bread at home, there’s no need to be opening them and handling them unnecessarily. There’s machines for it but it stops being free. And it’d be nice if it’s some popular design that will be sold for a long time, so promotional photos can be reused for a long time. The knife isn’t for me and my needs, it’s for a whole community of disadvantaged people.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/564395
NB: Very very sharp