On 8/8/2011 12:11 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>
> "gloria.p" > wrote in message
> ...
>> 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
>

When we married in the 60's we bought our household equipment in
Scandinavian import
stores (mostly "Scan", owned by the local coop). Our cutlery included a
cheese plane and it still works very well.


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James Silverton, Potomac

I'm *not*