Cheese board sets

Cheese has always been a crowd pleaser in any cocktail party or social gathering. People like to savor each one and share their opinions on their favorites. Serving cheese as an hors d'oeuvre mandates a good cheese cutting board, cheese knives and tools for various cheese textures and flavors. With the holidays just around the corner, wow the crowd with your cheese platter at your next get-together.

Bringing cheese to a different level

This practical and eco-friendly rubberwood three-tiered cheeseboard makes an attractive presentation for serving cheese and crackers, tarts, and fruits at any gathering or cocktail party. The swiveling tiered rubberwood plates makes all the appetizers within reach of guests milling around the table and is a space saver.There is a built-in storage for the various cheese tools which include a spreader, a fork-tipped knife, and a serrated knife for hard cheeses.

Picnic Time Regalio 11-1/2-Inch Cheese Board/Tool Set

Easy to clean and makes serving cheese a breeze

Bamboo belongs to the grass family and is therefore a renewable and sustainable resource. This bamboo cheese board is not only eco-friendly but guest-friendly. Lay out the various cheeses on this server along with the stuffed Spanish olives, kalamata olives, and pickled onions in the removable ceramic dish with a corner server for stainless steel cocktail sticks. Four cheese tools come with the cheese board so your guests can help themselves while imbibing in some reds, whites, or punch.

Picnic at Ascot Cutting Board and Tools Set

The Celtic bamboo cheese board set is not to be outdone. It comes with a removable ceramic dish for crackers, nuts, fruits, and three stainless steel cheese tools and ample cutting area for the Camembert, Brie, Monterey or Pepperjack or what have you.

Picnic at Ascot Celtic Cheese Board Set, Ceramic Dish

Keep it on the the kitchen counter as a chopping board

This two-tone bamboo oval cheese cutting board is elegant with its natural wood grain. It will serve as a crowd-pleasing cheese platter that comes with four assorted stainless steel cheese knives which are stored in the handly slide-out drawer. The tool set include one each; hard cheese knife, cheese shaver, cheese knife with dual-pronged tip for lifting, and a spreader.

Picnic Time formaggio Cheese Set

The circular cheese boards are made of durable hardwood or bamboo and have swivel-style storage compartments for the cheese tools. The recessed moat around the cheese board catches liquid from the cheeses or fruits. These attractive cheese servers make excellent gifts for cheese lovers.

Picnic Time Circo Cheese Set

Picnic at Ascot Feta Cheese Board Set, Round

This attractive bamboo cheese board has a recessed rim for an assortment of crackers and nuts on all four sides. Seedless grapes, strawberries, cut cucumber, mini carrots can create a colorful palette. A hidden drawer stores four stainless steel cheese tools.

Picnic at Ascot Malvern Cheese Board Set, Cracker Rim

Give a unique gift

What about a grand piano or a guitar shaped cheese board for the musically-inclined cheese connoisseur. Or the bean-shaped bamboo cheese cutting board or the colorful tool handles for the artist and free spirit.

Picnic Time Mariposa Bamboo 15-Inch Cheese Board/Tool Set

Picnic Time Bamboo Piano 9-Inch Cheese Board/Tool Set

This attractive natural finished beechwood cheese slicer and server tray has a well for serving crackers or fruits along with sliced cheese. The convenient slicer works like a paper cutter and efficiently slices through semi-soft cheese or harder cheese like a charm.

Cheese slicers are the perfect sizes for the home. A taut wire cuts the cheese without the need for a knife. These versatile cheese slicers come in sustainable bamboo, beech wood, marble and granite.

Put one on the breakfast, lunch or dinner table and let family members or guests cut their own cheese slices. A perfect slice every time.

This is a sampling of different cheeses I buy when expecting guests over. This include semi-soft Fontina from Italy, Havarti from Denmark, Panquehue from Chile, smoked Gouda from Holland, and White Stilton with dired dates and orange from UK, and Longhorn Colby cheese from Wisconsin, good ol' U.S.A. As soon as these are unwrapped and placed on a cheese board for serving, there is no way for guests to identify all the cheese slices they have just tasted. Labeling the various exotic cheeses make for good conversation. This is the reason why cheese markers are important.

Cheese markers come in variety of materials. Some are permanently labeled with the cheese name. If you are one of those that like to try different cheeses like myself, then the porcelain markers which come with an erasable pen will come in handy.

These cheese boards make great gifts for the sports aficionados. For the golfer, football, baseball or soccer fans, any of these cheese board designs will bring delight. Cheese tool sets can be purchased separately. This give you the option of choosing a serrated spreader for soft cheese, a cheese knife for harder cheese, a forked knife to hold the cheese while cutting it.

DIfferent kinds of cheese come with different textures and firmness.There are semi-soft cheeses and hard cheeses to contend with, hence the need for various cheese tools. Each one serve its purpose.