[Sca-cooks] A Knife Problem

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Dec 27, 2008, at 11:37 PM, Heleen Greenwald wrote:

> OK...
> ...Say you buy a Trader Joes  1# bar of chocolate and you want to  
> break it apart into pieces. And if you don't get some chocolate into  
> your mouth soon, your brains will explode.... what else do you use  
> but a tip of a knife??   (Don't smack me, I am just asking.)
> Phillipa

You can use the heel of your knife as a chopper; it has a sort of  
chisel edge that can get into the score-marks on a chocolate bar and  
act as a wedge without damaging the edge of the blade or placing a lot  
of stress or torsion upon it, which is what breaks knives.

Or you can use a cheap utility knife, maybe even one you could whack  
from above with some sort of mallet to drive it down with greater  
force (I am reminded of my Mom using a combination cocktail-jigger- 
measure and ice-hammer for this, which was interesting since they  
never drank mixed cocktails at home)

> ps....... You can send email from an iPod??????

Yeah, the iPod Touch is a fully-functional PDA; the fact that it  
stores and plays music is sort of an afterthought... if there's an  
open wi-fi connection available it can glom onto it, and it has little  
mobile versions of a lot of the Apple software, like their Mail client  
and the Safari web browser, that sort of thing. It's nice to be able  
to stick it in your pocket when doing something like bike-riding, and  
still keep in touch with things like e-mail, use something like Google  
Maps (which, if one is on a bicycle, comes in handy), or watch a  
crappy horror movie while taking a break.

In this case it was either check my email or participate in an  
unbelievably lengthy conversation in the Toysan dialect about a pair  
of shoes my mother-in-law loves, but considers too good to wear every  
day, so she just wears them to church on Sundays and shows them off to  
her little old lady friends, boasting of how her children buy nice  
things for her... or something like that... it was pretty surreal, I  
can tell you, and I figured no one would even notice me answering an e- 
mail to SCA-Cooks in that setting...

And the Santa's Sleigh Flight Simulator and the Virtual Deep-Sea  
Fishing games for the iPod and iPhone are cool!

Adamantius






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when we all ought to worry about our own souls, and other people's  
bellies."
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