In article >,
"James Silverton" > wrote:

> "Omelet" > wrote in message
> news
> > In article >,
> > "James Silverton" > wrote:
> >
> >>>> I had initially hoped that you were going to ask about
> >>>> unusual but useful appliances. I was reminded by a thread in
> >>>> another group that I had a French chestnut knife! I also
> >>>> have, courtesy of a long ago vacation in Switzerland, a
> >>>> Roesti Raffel tho' that's not much different from a regular
> >>>> coarse grater.
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>>
> >>>> James Silverton
> >>>> Potomac, Maryland
> >>>>
> >>>> Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not
> >>
> >>>
> >> New thread? Start it!! Might be fun.
> >>
> >> OK, as above my two contributions are the chestnut knife and the
> >> Roesti Raffel. Before anyone asks about the grater, I didn't steal
> >> it from the apartment but bought it in a hardware store in Gstaad,
> >> really stretching my command of German :-)
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> James Silverton
> >
> > A good cheese board with a wire cutter. I use it now for all cheese
> > cutting ever since I got a really bad knife cut trying to cut a small
> > cheese remnant thinly.
>
> I've got one but I advise being sure to have spare wires. They tend to
> break at awkward times.

Really? Mine is years old and the wire is fine?
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