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Default The Humble Grapefruit Spoon

John Kane > wrote in news:8d8d2aa8-9fea-40c0-90f3-
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> On Aug 5, 11:29*pm, Terry Pulliam Burd > wrote:
>> I was prepping some tomatoes by slicing them in half and removing the
>> seeds using my favorite tomato de-seeding tool: a grapefruit spoon. It
>> does a great job of a couple of kitchen chores such as de-seeding
>> tomatoes and hulling strawberries. I'm sure there are a variety of
>> kitchen tools that weren't designed for the jobs they get used for in
>> addition to the jobs they *are* used for - not to mention a variety of
>> tools that weren't designed to get anywhere near a kitchen, but can be
>> found in kitchens nonetheless! *[Blame Alan a/k/a hahabogus for this
>> one.]

>
> I've found my wok is very handy for removing the snow from the
> balcony. And the chinese cleaver is any for chopping up small trees
> for fires and also for chopping vines down.
>
> John Kane Kingston ON Canada
>


Funny you mention it...I was just considering using my medium swiss
cleaver on a log for the smoker. As my hatchet has gone astray.

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