[Sca-cooks] Feast quantities

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> Jadwiga Zajaczkowa said:
> > Which is why when I do food things, I arrange to be doing a great many
> > things sitting down. Cheese seems to be the only thing that needs to be
> > cut standing up.
> Why does cheese need to be, or be more convenient to, cut standing up?

Cutting cheese is quanitity into cubes (as opposed to slices as made by a
hand-held cheese slicer) is a real pain because the knives tend to stick
in the cheese. If you are cutting large blocks of cheese with a knife,
standing up gives you more leverage to cut straight down.

We tried a commercial cheese wire but couldn't figure out how to make it
work. I am going to try to get our local 'minister of acquisitions' to
string a cheese wire in a hacksaw frame for cheese cutting... 45 pounds,
mostly in 5 pound blocks, is no sinecure and this year I was painfully
grateful to the enthusiastic teen pages who bounced into my kitchen Friday
night and agreed to cut cheese for me.

(Ok, say to a teenage boy who has offered to help you, "Wanna cut some
cheese?" and the humor possibilities just overwhelm them. Also if pages
are in my kitchen cutting things they can socialize without people
worrying that they are about to get in trouble.)

-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa
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