Enormous knives like this have often been sold as bread knves, bakers' knives and simply as serrated knives, but its original purpose was for cleaning and cutting large fish into steaks, from sockeye salmon to giant bluefin tuna.
This is a beautiful used Berkel 823 commercial 1/4 h.p. deli meat and cheese slicer. Formerly belonged to an owner/operator of 17 delis in and around Chicago who told us it was purchased as a back-up unit in case something went wrong with a slicer in any of his stores.
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