In article >,
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...ge_o00_s00?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...ls/Stainless-S
> teel/N-5yc1vZc2dxZ1z0yg27
> 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

maybe she could use her sewing machine, but she must remember to remove
the thread first