favorite brand of bread knife? Or have you used a serrated sharpener?

I have a J.A Henckels hollow ground edge serrated bread knife and a hollow ground 10-inch carving knife from circa 1989-1990. I think they were sharpened around 2000-2001, but that's it. They truly are fantastic knives.

I have had the same Wusthof bread knife for the past 33 years, and it's still doing its job perfectly. I surely recommend Wusthof knives.

Try to buy anyone of these. Get these from Amazon. Hope you'll be benefited.

Equinox Serrated Bread Knife (9-Inch Blade)
ORBLUE Stainless Steel Serrated Bread Slicer Knife
orged Bread Knife by Bobbi Jean's
Serrated Bread Knife - Premium 8 Inch Stainless Steel -
ictorinox 10.25 Inch Serrated Bread Knife with Fibrox Handle, 47547

Thank you. Good bye.

I ended up buying a victorinox bread knife and I'm kicking myself for not getting it sooner. I don't know how long it'll last, but so far I'm loving it! Thanks everyone for the suggestions.

Has anyone even seen a serrated knife sharpener? Common sharpeners such as the Chef's Choice line will sharpen the bevel, but won't really help the individual teeth much. A brief search on Amazon showed some sharpeners that are basically thin files, such as are used to sharpen saws, and are presumably used the same. You won't have to set the teeth, like on a saw, but it's still a very tedious process requiring some skill-you sharpen each bevel on each tooth separately- and I doubt many cooks would get around to doing it. If you buy a quality knife- Henckel's, Wusthoff, one of the Japanese brands etc.- and just use it for bread, the edge should hold up for a long, long time.

I've had my Wusthof bread knife for 30+ years and it's still slicing bread perfectly. Has never been sharpened.

I have a Messermeister (sp?) which I love. It's wicked sharp and has sent my husband to the ER for stitches once. We've had it for almost 15 years. Every 6-9 months, all the knives go to the local cutlery shop for professional sharpening, so I can't recommend a knife sharpener. I don't trust them to not ruin my knives and I don't have the skill to sharpen knives myself. For $40 (for about 5 knives), I think it's maintenance money that is well spent.

Like Nancy's, my bread knife is also over 25 years old. It's a Wusthof Trident, I guess the product line is now called Wusthof Classic or something like that, after they proliferated their product lines.

I think I've had the knife professionally recut twice, the last time about eight years ago. There's a knife sharpening service that shows up at my town's farmers market.

I have a Chef's Choice electric knife sharpener (model 1520, because it can sharpen at the correct angle for both Japanese and European knives). It does an excellent job on my straight edged knives. It's advertised to sharpen serrated knives as well; I've only used it once or twice on my bread knife (and not in a while), but I think it did an ok job, if not quite as good as for the straight knives.

I've got a Victorinox bread knife that has lasted for more than 25 years. And one of theirs recently ATK chose one of theirs as a Best Buy.
http://www.amazon.com/Victorinox-47547-4-Inch-Fibrox-Handle/dp/B00093090Y/ref=sr_1_1?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1453138432&sr=1-1&keywords=victorinox+bread+knife
On the serrated sharpener, I have my doubts bc the knife has stayed sharp on its own, and I think those sharpeners don't do much. If the knife dulls, take it for professional sharpening, when & if needed.