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> On Sun, 2 Aug 2009 03:07:49 -0700, "Theron" > wrote:
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>>....The V shaped blade lets you thin slice tomato.
>>No straight blade mandoline will slice tomato....
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> That all depends on the ripeness of the tomato and the angle and sharpness
> of
> the blade, doesn't it? There's nothing magic about the v-shape.
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> -- Larry
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There is something "magic" about the v-shape. A greater length of the blade
is used for a given diameter of what you're slicing. As well you're cutting
sightly in an angled backward forward fashion, which always makes slicing
more effective than with a blade at 90 degrees to the cut food. Jacques
Pepin made this point last Saturday on PBS when he was slicing sweet corn
for "corn parfait", an absolutely suburb dish easily made, by the way.
Tomato is tough. It works better with the V blade than the straight blade,
though for me the serrated tomato knife is usually when ends up working.

Ed