What Are These Tools?
I was given some strawberries yesterday and I like the sponge cake like stuff for 'short cake' so I made an angel food cake from a mix. It came out fine. Today I remembered that I thought I had this funny device that I had heard was used to cut such a cake.
Well, I read how to use such a thing, but it turned out that I had something else entirely. My device seems to possibly be for cutting cheese. Anyone know what it is? Imagine the cutter above with only four equally spaced 'tines' remaining and actually the two outer ones are actually supports to hold a wire between them and just below the two center tines.
While I was rummaging in the junk drawers I also came across another slightly similar tool in outer form only; no wire or tines; and a little smaller than above; but a couragated solid edge two inches high. I could imagine cutting crinkled potato chips with it, but they would likely be very uneven and the potato couldn't be very large. Ideas?
Yes, I know a pic would be better. I'll fight with my cameras and cables if necessary.
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Thanks arkansas girl: my second described tool is exactly the one below. I guess it is for french fries and to make other veggie crinkle cuts without too much precision.
dcarch: your video is the first one I looked at and then I checked another with a chef wiggling it sideways (probably what arkansas girl was suggesting). In any case, they are for the tool like I actually pictured in the OP and NOT the tool I Described that has a wire just directly under the points of and in the same plane as the points and there are ONLY two tines, not 14 (or whatever in the videos).
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Thanks for taking a shot at it annie1992 but it would be too small for that. It IS the size of an angel food cake cutter. I have managed a pic. Here it is. The wire, frame and tines are all in the same plane.
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7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoWell, I dug mine out, and found I've told a story. The handle is not yellow, but brown (I think it may have been yellow many moons ago), and there were no screws holding the wire in place, but the wire did rust and break. I need to find some to replace it!
Chas, how did you hold the slicer? I took pictures because I couldn't figure out how to describe it, so it would make sense. Forgive the unwrapped cheese, please, it's the only block I have, and I'm not ready to use it yet.
Wrong slicing position. (Ignore the broken wire trailing off to the side.)
Correct slicing position. The 2 center tines are thickness guides.
Hope this helps!Rusty
7 years agoI thought the first pic was correct usage. Back when these were popular I doubt little perfect packages were available. Makes sense the two middle 'tines' were used for pushing off the slice to one side, then continuing slicing....but could be way wrong.
Why would it be so big otherwise.
This one like I have seems more likely for even slicing...
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