SC - whitefly control

[Jeff Heilveil]

On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Philip & Susan Troy wrote:

> I have one of those, and will occasionally use it at home, or my lady
> wife will. When I need to repair a badly sharpened knife, or a chipped
> edge, I have a series of Arkansas whetstones that I use (normally
> three). For everyday professional use I have a gizmo that looks like one
> of those folding Asian butterfly knives, with a diamond-dust-coated
> "steel" inside. It does a fine job, used judiciously in conjunction with
> an actual deburring steel.

I've played with several of the "gizmos", but come to the conclusion
that I don't like the fact that they are fixed angle. Fixed angle is a
Good Thing if you agree with them on what it is supposed to be. But if
you don't... The diamond stuff is good, but or some reason I have never
liked them very much. Real, honest, stones, ceramic sticks and a steel
is my way to go.

> strop, but it seems unnecessarily anal-retentive, so I use it only for
> razors and such.

I know it is on the anal-retentive side, at least on normal cooking
knives, but I love that first "hot knife through butter" feeling they
have when they are at that "absolute" level that a strop will give
them... I think I'll quit now, before I start sounding *too* kinky.

> I find it interesting that I actually used to work with a Swedish cook
> whose name was Par, and he told me that all my knives were too sharp,
> that that was a good way to hurt yourself. 

I have heard that from some people, for all I know it might a
pecuiliarilly Swedish fallacy. I have never subscribed to it. If nothing
else since the cut from a sharp knife will heal easier -- all other
things being equal -- than one from a dull. The nice way all the
knife-cuts on my hands have healed is evidence of this. Nice thin lines,
with hardly any bulking scar tissue. 

> He said blunt knives were definitely the way to go.

I think that sensitive souls might object if I express my true feelings
regarding this opinion. Imagine, if you will, instead a lenghty rant
filled with inventive insults regarding a persons intelligence,
ancestry, personal hygienic, sexual and social habits, not to mention
vivid descriptions of GBH inflicted in inventive and drawn out ways
uppon said person.

> He also was genetically risotto-challenged, but that's another
> story.

Allergy or inablility? I have never had my risottos judged by anyone
with the slighest schred of knowledge of how the real product is
supposed to turn out, so I can't give an opinion on how good I am with
them.

> I wonder if he was our Par's Evil Twin?

Since I AFAIK have no twin it should not be. Some simple information
might helt dispell the notion: if he was 6'2" tall, weighted close to
220 lb of well trimmed muscle, had reddish blond hair, and very handsome
it can't have been my twin. 

/UlfR

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Par Leijonhufvud                                      parlei at algonet.se
Don't discount flying pigs before you have good air defense.
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