What tool for cutting cheese?

Sqwertz wrote:

Regardless of my getting some of the supporting facts wrong the points
remain -

Different tools are used for different hardnesses of cheese.

The tool used for the hardest cheese is a very short thick blade.

Therefore the tool to try for a hard cheese is your knife with the
shortest thickest blade.
 
On Apr 19, 1:01?pm, Doug Freyburger wrote:

==
Using a piece of dowel or even broom handle for a handle with "piano"
wire, I cut up literally tons of cheese when I worked in a retail
outlet. They will break eventually but if you start with a long enough
wire they can be reattached to the anchor. Man do they ever work well.
We used to cut up 20 lb. blocks of hard aged cheddar and repackaged it
in random sizes/weights.
==
 
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:09:03 +0000 (UTC), Doug Freyburger
wrote:


Those aren't for cutting, they're for prying off hunks to put on
individual plates and you can use an oyster knife for that.

If I use a wire, it's for medium cheese (like cheddar) not soft. It
goes through the cheese like buttah. For Polly's purpose, take thick
slices off with a wire cutter and then cut the slices into cubes using
a regular chef's knife.

--

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
On 2011-04-19, Doug Freyburger wrote:


My forged 6" chef knife.

I know. I've seen the photos of 3-4 short spade shaped knives
strategically inserted picturesquely in a 2 ft wheel of P-R, but I
ain't got those and am not about to spend a bundle acquiring them.
Besides, since I can't even afford a $2K wheel of 2 yr old imported
P-R cheese, I don't really have a need, do I. Anyway, the end of my
6" chef knife is kinda spade shaped. Works equally well on softer
cheeses. Right on target for that "multi-tasking" ol' Alton B is
always harping on. ;)

nb
 
On Apr 19, 3:33?pm, sf wrote:

Hey thanks. I've had an oyster knife around here for decades and I
just KNEW there had to be other uses.

I have the wire cheese cutter, the cheese plane, and still I wonder
if I need a cheese knife with the holes. I guess I can live without
it - like the immersion blender I keep debating about.
 
Doug Freyburger wrote:

For cutting off heads, molybdenum wire is probably
the best choice. It's got about 2/3 the tensile
strength of tungsten wire, but much better fatigue
life. Tungsten fatigues quickly -- you might not
get through your first neck. And it's so embarrassing
to have a wire break part of the way through.


No point wasting a good chicken Where does Andy live?
 
On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:01:37 +0000 (UTC), Doug Freyburger wrote:


If you have a garrote style cutter that really doesn't matter. You
wouldn't even notice.


I was thinking more along the lines of a pig. Do you think the pig
would still walk and root around without a head?

-sw
 
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 19:01:24 +0000 (UTC), Doug Freyburger
wrote:


Agreed.


Yes, since those cheeses are most often broken up into jagged chunks
rather than cut.


Not unless it's too hard or too large to slice. Both of my local
cheese shops, as well as Artisanal and Murrays in NYC, use wires to
cut everything except the very hardest cheeses in whole-wheel form.

For home use, I've never found a parmesan spade to be of any use
whatsoever. Ymmv...

-- Larry
 
On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:32:59 -0800, Mark Thorson wrote:


Andrew J Burns
240 Foxcatcher Ln
Media, PA 19063

This is where he got his "foxcat" username that he used a decade ago.
And Google Street-scenes matches the video he posted a few months ago.
 
"FoxCat" ha scritto nel messaggio
news:[email protected]...



It's acts like that that do make the internet potentially dangerous. It's
rude to reveal details an individual gas not revealed on his own. And yes I
know you can do it to me, too.
 
FoxCat wrote:



Ya little runt. Mind your own friggin' business!

Do I bark up YOUR tree???

What an inconsiderate and mean-spirited thing to do!!!

You should be arrested for stalking and harassment!!!

Andy
 
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:35:33 +0200, Giusi wrote:


While I'm not defending the multi-stalker 'foxcat', I honestly don't
think anything is beneath the things that Andy has done/said here.
And if it puts him in check (doubtful), then that can only be a good
thing.

Andy is a disgrace. Nothing anybody could say/post here could be
worse.

-sw
 
On Apr 21, 1:17?pm, Sqwertz wrote:

==
Andy seems relatively harmless as far as I can see...no worse than a
number of other posters who inhabit this group.
==
 
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:41:47 -0700 (PDT), Roy wrote:


When you make fun of people without legs (I know it doesn't bother the
person in question) it really does say something about you as a
person.

And it doesn't bother me that he follows me around from group to group
making stupid comments out of the blue in my direction (and dozens of
other people). But it does say something about him.

If I knew he didn't leave the house when he's drunk then I would tend
to think he's mostly harmless. But his posting schedule doesn't
indicate that.

-sw
 
Roy wrote:



little stevie warts is a kick 'em when they're up/kick 'em when they're
down backstabbing nutcase. He's been that way for years.

He likes to dish out BS but sure can't take it!

I cann certainly be verbally caustic to lsw but ya gotta roll with the
punches! Simple as that!

What he's done recently?

First he digs up my old website and puts it on rfc.
He actually unsubscribed me from the TED email newsletter openly
gloating about it.
Then putting my name and address on rfc instructing members to visit
Google street view to look at my house.

What sane person would do those things?

In all these years, all his posts directed at or about me are filled
with anger and spite.

I have no idea what the little dwarf is trying to prove. I actually did
feel sorry for him for a few seconds, once.

His long time failure to dominate me is amusing. He's definitely not
Alpha material!

Andy
 
Sqwertz wrote:



For anyone who cares, the flinging of insults over the years between blake
"no legs" murphy and myself...

FOR THE RECORD: He started the war, I DIDN'T!!!

I tried to call a truce many years ago but he refused to consider the offer
and the war of words only got worse.

Does that make him a better man than ma? I don't see how!

Andy
 
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