[Sca-cooks] A Knife Problem

[Saint Phlip]

Um, whyreyou using a knife tall? If the chocolate is hard, justbreak
the bar, by slaming it on  table or something. Works just fine, and
sVES YOR TOOLS.

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 12:58 AM, Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
<adamantius1 at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> 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)
>

-- 
Saint Phlip

Heat it up
Hit it hard
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