"Dimitri" > wrote in
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> "Terry Pulliam Burd" > wrote in message
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>>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.]
>>
>> Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
>
> A potato ricer is the best possible tool for squeezing cooked spinach
> dry. A Kleenex cube is a great place to store plastic grocery bags.
> To hull strawberries I use a curved grapefruit knife.
> Micro planes are great hard cheese graters.
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> Dimitri
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>

Micro planes work a treat on garlic and chocolate as well.

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