"gloria.p" > wrote in message
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> 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

Dang tiny URL! This is what I sent him:
http://www.surlatable.com/product/PR...3/Cheese-Plane

I've never been in a Swedish household but it does a nice job with Swiss and
Cheddar. I never thought about shaving chocolate with it. Maybe I'll give
it a try some time

Jill