"tert in seattle" > wrote in message
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> 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.

Well, I did recently clean off my work bench...