Product Description
Cuisinart's electric knife adds a little electricity to any carving or cutting job, providing the extra power a real kitchen commando needs. Its powerful motor combines with two stainless-steel blades (one for carving and one for bread) to make short work of almost every slicing task, whether you're working with a roast, French bread, or vegetables. It has a comfortable ergonomic handle designed to be used by right- or left-handed people, a solid-wood butcher-block storage tray with a safety lock system for storage in a drawer or on the counter, a one-touch pressure-activated on/off trigger control, and space for wrapping the cord. --A.J. Rathbun
Cuisinart CEK-40 Electric Knife
Whether you are making a large Thanksgiving dinner for your friends and family or slicing bread for early morning toast, the Cuisinart Electric Knife will serve you well. Its superior cutting performance, state-of-the-art features and butcher block storage stand will spoil you for any other knife. Two full size blades quickly and evenly slice through roasts and bread. The stainless steel blades provide stay-sharp, long term performance. The Cuisinart Electric Knife is built with the same commitment to the home cook as all other fine Cuisinart kitchen products.
The Only Way To Slice It!
Cuisinart continues its commitment to superior quality and innovation with our new state-of-the-art electric stainless steel knife. The Cuisinart Electric Knife not only delivers high performance and great satisfaction, but is also a countertop space saver! Complete with two stainless steel blades, it's ideal for slicing meats, loaves, and vegetables. Also included is an ergonomic handle that's designed for right- or left-handed people, and a solid wood butcher-block storage tray with safety lock system for storage in a drawer or on the counter.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1005 in Kitchen & Housewares
- Color: Black
- Brand: Cuisinart
- Model: CEK-40
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 5.50" h x4.00" w x12.00" l,4.00 pounds
Features
- High quality stainless steel blades
- Wood block storage tray
- Includes bread blade, carving blade and butcher block holding tray
- Ergonomic handle
- Product Built to North American Electrical Standards
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
164 of 171 people found the following review helpful.
By Janet E. Morris
The Cuisinart CEK-40 Electric Knife is by far the best ever, and I've used three other brands. The knife and blades store securely in the very attractive tray and the attached cord tucks away neatly behind the stand. I especially like the bread knife which works wonderfully on crusty breads. The blades slip easily into the knife handle and are just as easily removed. This is definitely a quality product and well worth the price.
199 of 211 people found the following review helpful.
By G. Kerner
I am very disappointed with this product. I was carving my Thanksgiving turkey yesterday when the knife stopped working after it got hooked on bone in the wing. The motor continued to work, but the blades stopped moving. The knife has only been used 3 times, but I had to throw it out today. I opened the plastic case, and found a metal worm gear coming off the motor shaft,and a cheap nylon gear attached to it to move the blades back and forth. The nylon gear was stripped and the knife was useless. My prior knife, much less expensive, lasted for 18 years. The Cuisinart knife is not well made and only works well when it is not under any stress.
333 of 360 people found the following review helpful.
By Amazon Customer
I bought this knife and wanted to use it to carve up a roasted pig for a luau party I was having. The knife was a little under powered, it seemed to struggle when cutting larger slices. The pig was quite large (60 lbs) and after about 20 minutes of continuous use the knife became quite warm and stopped working. After a few choice explectives I handed it to my husband. Lucky for me my husband is a mechanical engineer who owns his own business which includes a metal working machine shop. Later that week he took it apart and discovered that there is a very fragile plastic Nylon gear that is part of the main drive. The plastic teeth on the gear were stripped and that is why the knife stopped working. He told me he did a few quick gear calculations (he is a smart fellow) and determined that the plastic nylon gear teeth strength was way underpowered for the design. He was able to make a duplicate gear out of stainless steel in his machine shop and assembled the new metal gear into the knife replacing the junk plastic one. Since that time the knife has worked flawless. I have since carved all sorts of roasts, pork, turkeys and no matter how long or hard the carving is, even if I hit a bone, it never stopped working. The Cuisinart engineers should be embarrased, this is such an easy fix to make (all they need to do is change out the Plastic nylon gear for a metal one, maybe cost them an extra 10 cents?), it is like they never did any research and developement on this product because I know if they tried to cut anything other then bread the dam knife would stop working after about 10 minutes of use. I would say that all the good reviews here are from people slicing bread, if you want to slice meat and use the knife for more then 10 minutes you will need to find an engineer and a machine shop to replace the plastic gear, after that it works great.
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