On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:55:04 -0700, sf > wrote:
>On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 16:58:58 +0000 (UTC), tert in seattle
> wrote:
>
>> Brooklyn1 wrote:
>> > "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.
>>
>> I can totally see Julie doing this.
>
>I thought she said she ordered a docking tool. If I did what you're
>suggesting, I'd not only need to buy the dowel and more nails than
>I'll need for the rest of my life, I'd need to buy the drill, drill
>bits and vice + plus a place to install the vice. Why spend all that
>time and money to make a tool you can buy for a few $? Not worth it.
Hey, sf, do you have any idea how much it would cost to dock your
behemouth ass... and how many months it would take?