"Julie Bove" wrote:

>What do you dock your crackers with? The recipe I've been using says to
>use a fork but that's just not cutting it. The holes at the bottom of the
>cracker are either closing or nearly closing, probably because the tines of
>my fork narrow down at the end.

Could have gotten an old crappy restaurant fork and filed the points
off the tines... for as often as you plan to bake crackers use a
plastic disposable fork.

>So I ordered this tool:
>
>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
>
>We'll see.

I doubt that will work well with crackers, it'll make very random
patterns. I would have made a block of wood the size of a cracker,
drilled holes in a desired pattern, pushed in appropiately sized
stainless steel nails and glued them in with a piece of wood as a
backing cover and handle... there you go, a professional cracker
docking tool. I would have made mine with a spring loaded stripper
plate so it ejected the cracker off the nails. The nail diameter
should be a bit oversize to accomodate the holes closing during
baking... and file/grind the points off.
You can easily find SS nails.
http://www.homedepot.com/b/Tools-Har...vZc2dxZ1z0yg27
Drill holes in the wood slightly smaller than the diameter of the
nails... if you attempt to hammer the nails in you will certainly
split the wood.
Now stand by for the "Julie Bove Lame Dog & Pony Show" featuring
numerous and convoluted lame excuses why she CAN'T.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_and_pony_show