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Default The Humble Grapefruit Spoon


Lou Decruss wrote:

> On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:33:49 GMT, hahabogus > wrote:
>
> >John Kane > wrote in news:8d8d2aa8-9fea-40c0-90f3-
> :
> >
> >> On Aug 5, 11:29 pm, Terry Pulliam Burd > wrote:
> >>> I was prepping some tomatoes by slicing them in half and removing the
> >>> seeds using my favorite tomato de-seeding tool: a grapefruit spoon. It
> >>> does a great job of a couple of kitchen chores such as de-seeding
> >>> tomatoes and hulling strawberries. I'm sure there are a variety of
> >>> kitchen tools that weren't designed for the jobs they get used for in
> >>> addition to the jobs they *are* used for - not to mention a variety of
> >>> tools that weren't designed to get anywhere near a kitchen, but can be
> >>> found in kitchens nonetheless! [Blame Alan a/k/a hahabogus for this
> >>> one.]
> >>
> >> I've found my wok is very handy for removing the snow from the
> >> balcony. And the chinese cleaver is any for chopping up small trees
> >> for fires and also for chopping vines down.
> >>
> >> John Kane Kingston ON Canada
> >>

> >
> >Funny you mention it...I was just considering using my medium swiss
> >cleaver on a log for the smoker. As my hatchet has gone astray.

>
> Yep. That makes sense. Destroy your cleaver instead of looking for
> your hatchet.



:-)

Hey Lou, did you survive our recent storms okay...???


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