SC - Short people, Was- Spicing of Meats (longish)

[Margritte]

Mordonna22 at aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 7/18/98 7:42:54 PM US Mountain Standard Time, troy at asan.com
> writes:
> 
> <<  Please understand this
>  is in no way any kind of comment on you, my lord, but my experience has
>  been that ladies and smaller people generally prefer smaller knives,
>  with the possible exception of ladies with Chinese cleavers, where the
>  relationship seems more in inverse proportions ;  ).
> 
>  Adamantius
>  _________________________________ >>
> 
> Hmmmm.
> I am 5'4 1/2" tall.  I have tiny bones, but proportionately long forearms.
> (My much taller sister cannot reach much higher than I can).  My two favorite
> knives were made for me by a friend.  They are paired corn knives.  Each has a
> rectangular blade 18" long by 3" wide with a wooden handle 8" long.  (Just
> long enough for a two handed grip for me.)

Sounds like this is covered by the Chinese cleaver clause above...
> 
> Wanna match your 10 1/2 inches against my 18?

Uh, at what?
> 
> Seriously, I do not use these as cooking implements.  Our camp has been raided
> several times by standard snatchers.  Their chief purpose is deterrence.  A
> secondary purpose was found for the rolled steel one when we misplaced the
> hatchet.  From then on it was common to see someone in our camp using it to
> split firewood.  Unfortunately, one young, inexperienced kitchen scullion once
> tried to chop wood with my STAINLESS corn knife, not knowing there was a
> difference between the two.  He served KP for the remainder of the War under
> strict supervision, and probably has a far better understanding of the
> properties of metals and the care and feeding of blades than he ever hoped to
> have

Never had anything like that happen to me, but I did once have someone
stir lemonade with my honing steel (yum, steel granule soup!) and later
had a fellow helpfully hone my knife for me, at a 90 degree angle to the
steel (in both planes), using about 300lbs/square inch pressure. Either
he was actually trying to destroy the knife in the most efficient way
possible, or he was a very, very ignorant man trying to conceal the
fact.

Nowadays I'm just very careful about who I lend knives to.

Adamantius
______________________________________
Phil & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com
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