{"product_id":"bread-lame-razor-cutter-with-handle","title":"Bread Lame Razor Cutter with Handle","description":"\u003cp\u003eA loaf decides where to open in the first ninety seconds of baking. Score it well and it opens where you meant it to. Score it badly and it splits down the side, in the place the dough found easiest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA knife will not do this. A knife drags, and dragging pulls the skin of the dough rather than cutting it. What you need is a blade thin enough to pass through without pressure, which is why a lame is a razor blade and not a knife.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe arm is curved stainless steel. The curve holds the blade at an angle to the surface rather than square to it, which is what gives you an ear: the raised lip along the cut that people recognise as a proper loaf.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe handle is turned beech with a grip ridge, so a floury hand still knows where it is. Five blades come with it, in a leather sleeve, because a blade that has done twenty loaves is not sharp any more and a blunt lame drags exactly like a knife.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eBeing straight about this one\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a bare razor blade on a stick. It is not a tool to leave loose in a drawer with children in the house, and the sleeve exists for a reason. Change blades over a bin, and put the old one in the sleeve rather than the rubbish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe blades are consumable. The handle and arm are covered by the two-year guarantee. The blades are not, any more than we would guarantee a pencil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat scoring is actually for\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScoring dough is not decoration, although it can be. It is pressure management. A loaf expands hard in the first minutes of baking, and it will open somewhere whether you choose the place or not. Sourdough scoring gives the expansion a route, which is why a scored loaf rises up and an unscored one tends to tear out at the side.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe kit is the arm, a turned beech handle, and a leather pouch holding four spare blades. Blades are consumable and a dull one drags, which is the single most common reason a score goes wrong. Change it far sooner than you think you need to.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf you are baking often enough to need this, \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/journal\/how-to-keep-sourdough-fresh\"\u003ehow to keep sourdough fresh\u003c\/a\u003e covers what happens to the loaf after it leaves the oven.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Kensington London","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43454106665008,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/3840\/5680\/files\/kl-p-lame.jpg?v=1785756214","url":"https:\/\/kensingtonlondon.com\/products\/bread-lame-razor-cutter-with-handle","provider":"Kensington London","version":"1.0","type":"link"}