John Kane > wrote in news:8d8d2aa8-9fea-40c0-90f3-
:

> On Aug 5, 11:29*pm, Terry Pulliam Burd > wrote:
>> 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.]
>
> I've found my wok is very handy for removing the snow from the
> balcony. And the chinese cleaver is any for chopping up small trees
> for fires and also for chopping vines down.
>
> John Kane Kingston ON Canada
>

Funny you mention it...I was just considering using my medium swiss
cleaver on a log for the smoker. As my hatchet has gone astray.

--

The house of the burning beet-Alan

On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:33:49 GMT, hahabogus > wrote:

>John Kane > wrote in news:8d8d2aa8-9fea-40c0-90f3-
:
>
>> On Aug 5, 11:29*pm, Terry Pulliam Burd > wrote:
>>> 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.]
>>
>> I've found my wok is very handy for removing the snow from the
>> balcony. And the chinese cleaver is any for chopping up small trees
>> for fires and also for chopping vines down.
>>
>> John Kane Kingston ON Canada
>>
>
>Funny you mention it...I was just considering using my medium swiss
>cleaver on a log for the smoker. As my hatchet has gone astray.

Yep. That makes sense. Destroy your cleaver instead of looking for
your hatchet.

Lou

Lou Decruss wrote:

> On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:33:49 GMT, hahabogus > wrote:
>
> >John Kane > wrote in news:8d8d2aa8-9fea-40c0-90f3-
> :
> >
> >> On Aug 5, 11:29 pm, Terry Pulliam Burd > wrote:
> >>> 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.]
> >>
> >> I've found my wok is very handy for removing the snow from the
> >> balcony. And the chinese cleaver is any for chopping up small trees
> >> for fires and also for chopping vines down.
> >>
> >> John Kane Kingston ON Canada
> >>
> >
> >Funny you mention it...I was just considering using my medium swiss
> >cleaver on a log for the smoker. As my hatchet has gone astray.
>
> Yep. That makes sense. Destroy your cleaver instead of looking for
> your hatchet.


:-)

Hey Lou, did you survive our recent storms okay...???


--
Best
Greg

On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 15:10:41 -0500, "Gregory Morrow"
> wrote:


>Hey Lou, did you survive our recent storms okay...???

We were fine. Thanks. Some friends out in the burbs took a beating
though. No power for awhile. Sure is a beautiful day today though!

Lou

On Aug 6, 2:33*pm, hahabogus > wrote:
> John Kane > wrote in news:8d8d2aa8-9fea-40c0-90f3-
> :
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Aug 5, 11:29*pm, Terry Pulliam Burd > wrote:
> >> 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.]
>
> > I've found my wok is very handy for removing the snow from the
> > balcony. *And the chinese cleaver is any for chopping up small trees
> > for fires and also for chopping vines down.
>
> > John Kane Kingston ON Canada
>
> Funny you mention it...I was just considering using my medium swiss
> cleaver on a log for the smoker. As my hatchet has gone astray.

I'v never tried Western-style cleaver but I don't see why it would
not work. There's not that much difference between a Western-style
cleaver and a hatchet. I used the Chinese cleaver to cut up wood but
I don't think it has enough weight for splitting wood but if you think
a hatchet will work maybe my cleaver would too. I tend to think of
six - 10 inch pieces of Maple for splitting.

John Kane Kingston ON Canada