Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life

• PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why would you use a knife when you can cut anything with a spoon, if you give it a bit of force?

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  • CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why would you a spoon, when you can use a spork? It is the ultimate utensil.

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    • ogeist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You fancy people, I use rock, rock never fail.

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      • clif@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Biggest rock is best rock.

        I still use this joke any time rocks or size comes up in conversation but it’s so old that nobody ever gets it and they just look at me like I had a stroke.

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      • BoosBeau@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Fools, the lot of you. I leave my cheese on the rocky shores of Ol’ Merry Bertha near the concrete jetties of man. There, the sweet mother deep slices my cheese with her sharp, salty caress, leaving my belly full and satisfied.

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      • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        We all have knives built into our mouths, we could just be using those!

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  • SARGE@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Why do you have knives in your kitchen, when everything you could do with a knife can be done with a spoon?

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  • Siethron@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I prefer the spife

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    • Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Hands off my knorks!

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• Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The proof of the pudding is in the eating. I’ve eaten both, side by side, because it’s a really interesting difference.

      If you’ve decided that your reckoning is better than my experience then we’re done here.

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• DV8@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • vateso5074@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Might just need a sharper knife, then.

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    • CentipedeFarrier@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “Instead of getting the tool designed specifically for the thing, just get a different tool that isn’t designed for the thing, and then learn to make really precise difficult cuts!”

      I come from cheese country, and genuinely, no, you are wrong. A sharper knife isn’t the problem, the surface area of the blade is the problem. Even an oiled ceramic knife doesn’t cut cleanly through many cheeses (ceramic is extremely sharp, oiling is to attempt to prevent buckling and breaking because the cheese sticks to the blade). A wire cheese slicer is consistent, and safe and easy enough for a child to use (I know because that was my first experience with one, around 5-6).

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    • DV8@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No. There’s different types of tools for different types of cheese.

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    • Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nope. The tools work very differently.

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      • vateso5074@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I understand the tool, we used to have one when I was younger. I’m just saying that a knife will do zero compression if the edge is properly sharp. Most people use knives that go dull quickly and never bother to sharpen them, but a good sharp knife is a game changer for any type of food prep.

        A cheese slicer is just a convenience thing like an apple slicer.

        I mostly use a mandolin for the same purpose anyways, but a mandolin is just the convenience of a sharp knife with more consistent uniformity.

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• Kornblumenratte@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just use a cheese slicer. You’ll find out that it’s impossible to cut cheese with a knive to the same sliceness.

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• 0x0@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Lol you can’t even get close to that thickness with a knife

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  • Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Are you saying you think a cheese slicer does 3mm slices and therefore knife cuts are comparable?

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• Saapas@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  People are pretty handy if they can make those long and thin slices of softer cheese with a knife

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