The Best Bread Lame - 5 Popular Lames Tested

In this video, I'll show you five of the most popular bread lames, rate them, and help you choose the best bread lame for you. The lames I tested are the UFO lame, the ARC lame, the Sourdough Slingers lame, the Saint Germain lame, and the Baker of Seville lame.
Read my full review of these five lames here:
grantbakes.com/lames
Below are the product links for each of the five lames. Some of the links are affiliate links, so thanks for your support!
The UFO Lame (My #1 Lame)
🔗 grantbakes.com/ufo (Post video edit - The company that sells UFO lames is now offering Grant Bakes viewers a 10% discount on bread lames. Use my link and you'll get a 10% discount).
The Baker of Seville Bread Lame (My choice if I could only have one bread lame)
🔗 amzn.to/3yKoiTK
The Sourdough Slingers Lame (Made in the UK)
🔗 www.rackmaster.co.uk/product/...
The ARC Lame (Curved lame, similar to the UFO lame)
🔗 grantbakes.com/arc (Post video edit - The company that sells ARC lames is now offering Grant Bakes viewers a 10% discount on bread lames. Use my link and you'll get a 10% discount).
The Saint Germain Bread Lame (Not my favorite...)
🔗 amzn.to/3jhlVT2
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Video Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:41 The Lames I Tested
00:55 My Rating Criteria
01:26 The UFO Lame
03:24 The Sourdough Slingers Lame
04:40 The ARC Lame
05:27 The Generic Lame (Saint Germain)
06:16 The Baker of Seville Lame
Video Hashtags
#ufolame #arclame #breadlames
Affiliate Disclosure:
The product links above may be affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualified purchases.

[@GrantBakes]

(Edit - one year later): Wire Monkey Shop is now partnering with Grant Bakes to give you a 10% discount on bread lames. So, the UFO lame and the ARC lame are now 10% off if you use my affiliate links. UFO Lame - grantbakes.com/ufo ARC Lame - grantbakes.com/arc

[@davidhunternyc1]

I had an old wooden bread lame. In 20 years, I never cut myself on the razor blade. Then because of this review, I got the Wire Monkey UFO lame. Yesterday, however, I sliced my finger open with the Wire Monkey lame. The round shape is confusing and impossible to know where the razor is inside. Even the slightest edge poking out the sphere will cut your finger if not careful. It's kind of a pain to screw and unscrew. The trick is not to keep your fingers on the edge. I now don't know if I should've discarded my old lame. The Wire Monkey Goose lame is safer than the UFO lame. Wire Monkey also has the Pico lame. The blade sits within a rectangle. Too bad the Pico rectangular lame wasn't designed to be more like the UFO lame. Maybe it will take me awhile to get used to the UFO lame but I'm not yet convinced.

[@GrantBakes]

@@davidhunternyc1 Hey, David. Thanks for your honesty and for trusting my review. Send me an email to [e-mail] and I’d love to get in touch about your experience.

[@davidclifford4017]

Thank you for the review. Very informative and helpful.

[@sandradee3204]

I really enjoyed this video, thank you for all of the great information.

[@morthanalittle]

Very well done Grant. Quite helpful. Thank you sincerely. 🙏🏼♥️

[@belladavydova4038]

Not joking I have learn so much from your videos. I wish more people knew about your channel!!! My bread is more fluffy and looks like a real sourdough so much love now I have on my sourdough making and baking Thank you for your time and for all you do!!

[@GrantBakes]

Thank you so much!

[@unclefester6501]

Great video, looking forward to more.

[@yaminalabidi7514]

Thank you for chowing us all the tricks keep the shine side up 👍🌞🐪

[@nozawalm]

Hi! yes, this video really helped me! an amateur baker looking to buy my first lame!

[@1DrBar]

one thing here not considered is the sanitation safety of the designs. The Astra and UFO lames look like they are small bio-hazzards by design but perhaps they are easy to disassemble completely for sanitizing?

[@ToddVance]

SUPER helpful... thanks a ton!

[@GrantBakes]

No problem. Thanks, Todd!

[@michaelkaplan8717]

Hello Grant, Thank you for your demo on lames. I like the the Baker of Seville. What blades would you recommend? How many blades come with the Seville? The best to you. Mike

[@katiekawaii]

Thank you for actually _trying_ the products! Strangely rare these days.

[@GrantBakes]

I agree! It’s a shame. Thanks for the comment!

[@Keith_the_knife_freak]

Thanks for sharing.. my cousin hit me up to make her one... I never even heard of such a thing.. now I have more questions than answers. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@GrantBakes]

Sounds like a fun project!

[@Foodpermaculture]

It would be helpful if you covered razor change (safety wise) and "holster" or whatever way razors are covered when not in use.

[@cjcreates]

Thanks for this, obv got the curved one, been wondering what I'm doing wrong, trying a UFO next!

[@juliecheong3027]

Hey Grant! Just sub and have enjoyed your videos so far. May I know if the turn knob on your favourite baker of seville lame , get in the way /snags on your dough? Bread baking noob ie. me, always have scoring problems. Either dough snags or the cut is not deep enough. Thank you.

[@GrantBakes]

I would say get the UFO lame since it doesn’t have a knob, so it definitely won’t snag on anything! But the Baker of Seville is great too, you just have to make sure the knob is turned away from the dough when you are scoring 👍🏻

[@DemonessofRedSnow]

I had that exact problem when I got the Baker of Seville lame. I was tired of my blade popping off when I scored quickly, so I thought one with a secured blade would be awesome. The knob almost always snagged on my dough when I was cutting the ear on a batard. It’s just a bit too large if you are scoring at an angle.

[@oppomelstra1091]

are those pans on your stovetop, 'cast iron'? if yes, where did you buy those?

[@cgirl111]

I think your results will be better if you score at a 45 degree angle. I found most lame to be too short as I like to score deeply. I use a scalpel with disposable blades.

[@betspath]

What razor blades do you use?

[@santolify]

Wire Monkey is the best. I've got the UFO and soon will acquire the Arc and Poco.

[@GrantBakes]

I love the UFO and ARC 👍🏻

[@imgroot3450]

I just wanted to know how to pronounce “lame”. Thank you 🙏🏼

[@thePods]

Hi Grant, I'm sorry but I've tried the top 2 you recommend and totally disagree with you. It almost takes a shop vise to open the wire monkey up (there's no place to grip it); and the Baker of Seville has a frame on the backside that's only 1/4" away from the blade edge, so the frame ends up dragging and marring the dough surface when you try to cut more deeply than that. I actually think the free cheap one you pan is better than either of these 2.

[@GrantBakes]

Hey, thanks for the comment! I appreciate the honest disagreement. I guess the cheap one is a classic for a reason too. I believe there’s one wooden model of UFO lame that has deep grooves so it’s easier to open, so that would probably fix the hard to open problem, but I completely hear what you’re saying about the UFO and the Baker of Seville. They’re not for everyone, or for every type of scoring.

[@barrychambers4047]

Best bread lame can be purchased from San Francisco Baking Institute @ $7.50. This is what professional bakers use, by the way. These others a gimmicky, just so you know.

[@GrantBakes]

Thanks for that additional info. I understand that professional bakers use a wide variety of lames, but even if that weren’t the case, I think sometimes home bakers want lames with different features, since our day to day baking schedules look different to those of professional bakers.

[@creepyloner1979]

best option is disposable scalpels, not repurposed razor blades on sticks.

[@kb9155]

I wish this showed you using the lames… beginning bakers have no clue this didn’t really help at all hate to say it!

[@GrantBakes]

I see your point. I do have individual videos where I reviewed and used the ARC lame, the UFO lame, the Baker of Seville lame, and the Sourdough Slingers lame in depth. Feel free to click through to those videos as they might be more what you're looking for.

[@santolify]

Oh, I think I got that crappy lame.

[@markharrisllb]

$35 for a basic puck lame? You can get similar for £4.99, for goodness sake shop around. I used a folding cut throat razor for about 30 years.

[@GrantBakes]

Sounds great 😊

[@carolleeloodiva2071]

Your review is awesome! Thank you! In future videos might I suggest you NOT lean in to your video recorder… my back hurt by the end of your video and I was just watching! I can’t imagine what your back felt like.

[@GrantBakes]

Haha ok. Didn’t even think about that, honestly 😊

[@labla8940]

$35.00 For those, they cost 8$ on Amazon

[@GrantBakes]

Those are the knock offs. I can’t attest to the quality of those 😊

[@kraklakvakve]

A lahm is just a lame lamé. I just use a sharp knife :-)

[@TristanJCumpole]

Interesting video, however the pernickety proof reader side of me has to point out that it's not "for cheap" it's actually, "cheaply"!

[@WSPUNIT]

3 minutes later. Why am I watching this?

[@GrantBakes]

I’m not sure why, but you must have had your reasons 👍🏻

[@creepyloner1979]

i can't be the only one annoyed by the pretentious, needless use of french words by hipster americans when talking about sourdough bread, which isn't even french. first of all, it's "lam", like "lamb" or "lamp", not "lahm" or "lom", and it just means blade. c'est une lame de rasoir. it's a razor blade. call it a razor blade. stop saying "lahm" every 5 seconds! and while we're at it, next time you feel inclined to talk about your sourdough "boules", keep in mind that you're just saying "balls". and yes, "boules" is also french slang for testicles.

[@GrantBakes]

Yes, and bâtard means bastard. Lame means blade. Boule means ball. And levain means leaven. There’s a lot of French language that has made it into the common English language parlance, whether one is hipster or not, and whether one lives in the US or not. And yes, we all know that sourdough comes not from France or San Francisco, but from Egypt. Merci pour l'information, Maltfalc 😂 I want to say that next time you feel inclined to comment, please make it constructive and civil. But, I feel like you really needed to get that off of your chest! I hope you feel better now.

[@kickassv8]

The French couldn't even defend themselves. Hell, they have to hire foreigners to fight for them. Legio patria nostra.

[@edg3491]

@@GrantBakes I say tomayto, you say tomahto . . . let's call the whole thing off. Or, just keep on baking. Good response Grant. BTW, bought the Baker of Seville before I saw your eval based on design and versatility - first and last "lahm". Maiden slashes today. Band-Aids at the ready. 🙂