On 8/7/2011 6:05 PM, jmcquown wrote:
> When John was here in June he fell in love with a little kitchen
> implement called a cheese planer. I buy blocks of cheese rather than
> pre-sliced cheese. I have to admit, this ia s great cheese planer. I
> looked and it has a hallmark - Karlsson & Nilsson. Swedish. Go figure
> It looks a little like this:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/3w3ly2no
> So I looked it up. I found something similar online at Sur la Table and
> am having one sent to him.


Those work very well on semi-hard and hard cheeses. I really like the
wooden handled ones. Every Swedish household I've ever been in has a
number of these. Some of them have handles that match old silver
patterns or Georg Jensen flatware.

They can also be used to shave chocolate.


gloria p