Swiss Cheese Tool

[Woz]

I saw the brandnew Victorinox Cheese knife on their website, featuring a serrated bread blade, a dedicated cheese blade, a corkscrew and a toothpick. It seems the knife is not available in Europe by now, does any of the SAK people here have a source for this great tool?


(picture taken from the Victorinox Facebook page, Copyright Victorinox)

[nuphoria]

What's with the cross? It looks a bit like a cheap sakalike 

Otherwise, great idea 

[ari6126]

We were talking about it here: http://forum.multitool.org/index.php/topic,22884.0.html

[Gareth]

I hadn't realised it was a serrated main blade.  Better as a bread knife I suppose. 

[ryan1835]

i think the scales should be yellow and have holes in

[Neil]

What's with the cross? It looks a bit like a cheap sakalike 

Otherwise, great idea 

  Nope, looks OK to me

  But....

i think the scales should be yellow and have holes in

That'd be much cheesier better

[nuphoria]

It just looked a bit odd and plasticy to me.... I suppose it doesn't matter one iota, but the aesthetics are important. It has to be right if I'm taking it to the holy cheese

[Woz]

It does not have the Victorinox cross, but the Swis Cross on it, for a quite simple reason:
This knife is made for the Swiss cheese producers. They united some years ago, to bundle the powers and drop costs in advertising.
In fact, there are 4 TV commercials in Switzerland, showing the new tool - you can order it in Switzerland only, here is how it is done:

Go to Switzerland
Buy 5 packs of Swiss cheese
cut out bar codes on the cheese boxes
send the bar codes and 20 Swiss Franken (about 20,5 Dollars) to the Switzerland Cheese marketing address
Get the knife shipped to your door.

Damned, I need a Swiss guy to get me one...
Here is my source: http://www.switzerland-cheese.ch/de/meta-nav/home.html

Ad here the TV ads:http://www.switzerland-cheese.ch/de/medienbilder/werbekampagne.html

[Jmora]

I'm in Germany, but live 500m from the border. I'm considering going on a mission for one, could help someone else, mind you there's only so much swiss cheese I can eat.
Is this something that Tim would have on offer?

[Grant Lamontagne]

I'll take the knife and any cheese you don't want! 

Def

[Jack Russell]

I like the plain swiss cross reminds me of the red alox. By the way if anyone finds a way to get these put me down for one please..



Bread cheese glass of wine (heaven)

[Woz]

Ich würde gern eines nehmen falls du mehrere bekommst Jmora.
I'm in for one if ANYONE get get one ! 

[Stirling3749]

i think the scales should be yellow and have holes in

http://sakfan.blogspot.com/2010/02/victorinox-climber-swiss-cheese-scales.html
This guy seems to have dome just that with his climber.

[Stirling3749]

And where's the cigar cutter on this thing? I still want one. Maybe it will show up on Ebay soon.

[Woz]

according to Swiss media, the knife is available exclusively by the Swiss Cheese Marketing for 3 years, it seems not even to be available at the Victorinox store in Ibach.

[Jmora]

this means the offer will be around for three years? I wonder what sort of quantities will be manufactured. If it was just a several month giveaway, then the knife would be very collectible very quickly. Anyway, I think its a nice novel sort of SAK.

I've sent them an email asking for more details, I'll see what the availability is like where I am.

[Reinier]

No bottle opener... beer and Swiss cheese are a bad combination?

[eodtech]

I've sent them an email asking for more details, I'll see what the availability is like where I am.

Thanx, I am interested in what they have to say on availability in USA.

[Turnstone]

No bottle opener... beer and Swiss cheese are a bad combination?

You should only drink wine with their cheese, I believe. There is a corkscrew 

[Woz]

In fact, cheese and wine is a classic combination. A plate of mixed cheese with grapes and a glass of wine is a standard dish in a European formal dinner. French call it Entremet de fromage, and it is the dish served before the dessert.

Cheese and bread was a traditional meal for sheperds in Europe, but also for farmers and peasants for meat was too expensive to afford. In Switzerland there are hundreds of cheese-based recipes, including the famous Fondue where cheese is melt, mixed with white wine and sometimes Schnaps. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fondue#Cheese_fondues
Here in Austria, cheese, bread and wine are a dish served in special restaurants called "Heurige". They are speSmurfpillsed in selling (young, "heurig" means "this year") wine, fruit juices and cold dishes. Heurige are not allowed to heat food or drinks, so every meal there is just bread, butter, cheese and cold sausage or meat. Today there are some restaurants that are named Heurige, but serve hot meals, but they are not Heurige in the meaning of the word.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heurige

So, cheese and wine belong together here in the Alps, I guess that is why the Cheese makers wanted Victorinox to make the knife with a corkscrew, but no bottle opener. Beer and cheese are considered to be a Fauxpas.

[Jmora]

since you know a bit about cheese, does this organization cover all swiss cheese makers, or only certain makers? I looked at swiss cheeses in the supermarket in germany today (admittedly, this was Aldi), and none of them had this particular swiss cheese logo on them, although they had other marks of authenticity, like 'appelation controllee...' and were real cheeses - appenzeller, emmenthaler etc. Anyway, this organization is closed today, and will be open tomorrow, so I will ring them then.

[Woz]

Well, they say "Swiss Cheese" not what brands are accepted. There are some brands on the website, but I guess as long as the cheese is genuine Swiss, it is fine.

[Gareth]

In fact, cheese and wine is a classic combination. A plate of mixed cheese with grapes and a glass of wine is a standard dish in a European formal dinner. French call it Entremet de fromage, and it is the dish served before the dessert.

Cheese and bread was a traditional meal for sheperds in Europe, but also for farmers and peasants for meat was too expensive to afford. In Switzerland there are hundreds of cheese-based recipes, including the famous Fondue where cheese is melt, mixed with white wine and sometimes Schnaps. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fondue#Cheese_fondues
Here in Austria, cheese, bread and wine are a dish served in special restaurants called "Heurige". They are speSmurfpillsed in selling (young, "heurig" means "this year") wine, fruit juices and cold dishes. Heurige are not allowed to heat food or drinks, so every meal there is just bread, butter, cheese and cold sausage or meat. Today there are some restaurants that are named Heurige, but serve hot meals, but they are not Heurige in the meaning of the word.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heurige

So, cheese and wine belong together here in the Alps, I guess that is why the Cheese makers wanted Victorinox to make the knife with a corkscrew, but no bottle opener. Beer and cheese are considered to be a Fauxpas.

That actually sounds like a little bit of heaven to me.

[VicX]

I love cheese.
I love wine.
I want a Swiss Cheese SAK.

NOW!

And yes, there should be a cap-lifter for those who like beer more than wine.

[Jmora]

the austrian cheese-wine ritual sounds great, I like it how europeans have had centuries to work out what goes perfectly with what at which time of year etc. Though I do like beer, and I think it is underrated as an accompaniment to food generally. Fortunately you can get the top off of a beer on any hard surface, also you could use the whole body of the SAK as a lever, though the scales would get scratched.

[VicX]

...also you could use the whole body of the SAK as a lever, though the scales would get scratched.

 

 

[BIG-TARGET]

No bottle opener... beer and Swiss cheese are a bad combination?

Isn't rum with cheese popular in the Royal Navy?

[ICanFixThat]

No bottle opener... beer and Swiss cheese are a bad combination?

Isn't rum with cheese popular in the Royal Navy?

Only because at sea they only stock rum, maybe a few bottles of Champagne, and they'll eat anything they can get their hands on.

[knyha]

A few werb-spots with SAK + Swiss Cheese

(I tried to translate it a little bit for non german speaking people here. But german is not my native language, and swiss dialect is really very specific to me to understand, because I never was there, so I translated just what I could understand or what I thought that I understood. So "translation Limited". )


What do we eat? ()
one glass of red wine (?) (Corkscrew)
one piece of bread (?) (2/3 serrated blade)
and good swiss cheese (?) (cheese blade)


Swiss cheese for breakfast, swiss cheese for snack, swiss cheese for lunch, swiss cheese for afternoon tea, swiss cheese for dinner – sorry for maybe wrong usage of english words – The blade shows the position of time-pointer.


With... (I can´t uderstand and translate it...) (soap?) - good swiss cheese
With... (I can´t uderstand and translate it...) (potato?) - good swiss cheese
With a glass of wine – good swiss cheese


(I hardly can understand it – Swiss cow eats XX Kg grass (grass) , and gives XX Liter milk (glass of milk), from that milk we make Swiss chease (SAK)

I just love those Swiss Germany Dialect though I can´t understand it very good. )

Funny thing is to hear  sometimes at different other SAK-spots  Karl Elsener  talk with different german when he speaks german for official TV (easier to understand for me) and when he speaks german for swiss TV (hard to understand for me)  .

[Jmora]

 got some info from messerforums - the knife is exclusive to the cheese people, however, from november the knife will also be available in several of the flagship shops: geneva, basel, ibach and Düsseldorf (December). Maybe Europeans can order per post.
Additionally, I got a response from the cheese people to my email: they say that although the campaign is exclusively swiss, they're happy to send me a knife under the same conditions. They might expand it formally to Germany if it is successful. They say they also have orders from America, Australia, Austria etc.
So it looks its open to any place. I might get some Appenzeller tonight with some wine beer.