When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. - Hunter S. Thompson

26 March 2009

Cutting it pretty close

I bought a geek toy I've wanted for a while now - it has elements of cookery AND geekery and is therefore irresistible: a ceramic santoku knife. (Wikipedia on ceramic knives.)

While it's a specialist toy tool, useful for slicing or cutting only... it is very very good at slicing and cutting.

Check out this cross-section of a local hot-house tomato:

thin tomato slice ceramic knife

That's a "detail" from the deconstructed tomato below:

sliced up hothouse tomato ceramic knife

It does, indeed, cut pretty close.

Finished simple salad:

salad

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