"sf" > wrote in message
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> 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.

I would have to do that also. I did own a Yankee push drill some years ago
but as is the case with most all tools I have bought, they seem to go the
way of the wind. Was usually a combination of my dad and husband going off
to do some task and I either never got the tools back or I would eventually
find them outside somewhere, rusty. Husband did buy a drill some years ago
but I have no clue where it is.