SC - on table menus

[Elaine Koogler]

Now that sounds 'way cool.  When I think of the time I spend peeling a
pineapple, this sounds like a wonderful thing.  However, when I lived in the
South Pacific, we always ate the core...it's usually pretty good, so it seems a
waste to take it out.  But I guess that's what most folks want to do.

I did forget about one "weird gizmo" that I have.  It's a board to which a kind
of hook-shaped piece of metal has been attached.  The outside edge of this piece
has teeth filed into it.  It's used to "grate" the meat from inside a coconut.
You sit on the board, with the metal piece in front of you, then take half a
coconut and grate the meat from inside the shell.  It sounds weird, but it's
very efficient.  It is used extensively in Papua New Guinea for this purpose,
and was made for me by my houseboy when I lived there.

Kiri

James Prescott wrote:

> I have a plastic Australian gizmo for pineapples.
>
> It has a peg that goes into the centre of the end of the pineapple,
> and two blades.  The central blade is fixed and cuts a one inch
> diameter core.  The outer blade cuts off the skin.  The outer blade
> can be moved and has a plastic wing to keep it on track.
>
> Put the peg in, adjust the outer blade, turn the gizmo once, then
> with a knife cut off a 3/4 inch slice of pineapple, ready skinned
> and cored.  Rinse and repeat.
>
> For a very low price an extremely simple and elegant hand tool.
>
> --
> All my best,
> Thorvald Grimsson / James Prescott <prescotj at telusplanet.net> (PGP user)
>
> "It is impossible to forsee the consequences of being clever,
> so you try to avoid it whenever you can." Christopher Strachey
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