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Parmesan knife

knife used to cut hard cheese

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ2053713 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Parmesan knife or grana knife, known in Italian as tagliagrana, is a knife with a teardrop-shaped blade and a round wooden handle, used to break hard cheeses such as Parmesan and grana into shards. Bigger knives with a flat handle that can be hammered are used to cut open the cheese wheels, the crusts of which are rather hard.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 60-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Parmesan, knife and used is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Parmesan knife” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.