I have at least 3
Damn, this guy’s fancy
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 2 days ago
I have at least 3 of these. They’re hardly rare. I think it’s just you.
FosterMolasses@leminal.space 2 days ago
other_cat@piefed.zip 17 hours ago
I’ve got one; bought on a whim at the local farmer’s market from a beekeeper. I kind of hate it though.
Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl 2 days ago
I’ve wondered the same as OP and never saw one in real life.
Probably it’s a regional thing, like how in some countries (as I recently discovered) they don’t know what a cheese slicer is and just butcher cheese with a knife.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 2 days ago
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Why would you use a knife when you can cut anything with a spoon, if you give it a bit of force?
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Why would you a spoon, when you can use a spork? It is the ultimate utensil.
SARGE@startrek.website 2 days ago
Because we have knives already in our kitchens, and they don’t take up extra space in a drawer that would otherwise go to another more useful utensil.
Also my cheese slicers have all been cheap as shit and snap after a few months, and the nice heavy duty one I had with a replaceable wire got lost in the move earlier this year and they discontinued it and I’m sad.
Siethron@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I prefer the spife
Flamekebab@piefed.social 2 days ago
The texture and flavour of a hard cheese cut with a cheese slicer is different from when one cuts with a knife. I like both but on a sandwich the cheese slicer wins every time.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 2 days ago
DV8@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Cutting the type of cheese you use a slicer on, with a knife, compresses the cheese more. Young cheese is solid, but too fatty and soft to really easily slice through. You can ofcourse, but the quality of your slice will not be similar to the easily and reproducible quality you get with a slicer. Especially if you need many slices.
vateso5074@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Might just need a sharper knife, then.
Kornblumenratte@feddit.org 2 days ago
Just use a cheese slicer. You’ll find out that it’s impossible to cut cheese with a knive to the same sliceness.
0x0@infosec.pub 2 days ago
Lol you can’t even get close to that thickness with a knife
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Saapas@piefed.zip 2 days ago
People are pretty handy if they can make those long and thin slices of softer cheese with a knife
Railcar8095@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Of course you had to be Dutch. I swear, all my Dutch friends have like 3 of those an a couple of those electric grills with mini pans for melting cheese below
In all fairness, the slicer isn’t even useful for all cheeses. It’s convenient for Edam and similar ones though.
logi@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
The cheese slicer is a great Norwegian invention and much used in all the Nordics. And The Netherlands. And Germany?
I think it mostly boils down to “what is cheese” to you. If you think you can even have an argument about whether you should cut “cheese” with a cheese slicer, then you come from a place where they make sense.
In my fridge I’ve got parmigiano, gorgonzola dolce and I just finished a rare piece of emmenthal. A slicer would have been useful only with the last one of those.
But my sandwiches! I hear all my fellow northerners cry. They’re great with brie or toma. No slicer needed.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
It’s it? Where do you live? I’m in California in the US.