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Docking crackers
Julie Bove wrote:
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> "tert in seattle" > wrote in message
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>> Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>> "Julie Bove" wrote:
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>>>>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.
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>>> 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:
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>>>>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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>>>>We'll see.
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>>> 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.
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>> I can totally see Julie doing this.
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> Well, I did recently clean off my work bench...
THERE ya go
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