Beware glass cutting boards !!!

[yog]

I went around to my brother's yesterday, and as he was going to help me T-cut my car I thought I would cook tee ("supper" for you posh types) for him.

It was diced chicken and mushrooms dry fried with garlic and taragon served with noodles.



Anyway brothers supply of kitchen tools was a little scarce, no cutting board, but he did have a flat (lightly textured) glass board (or something very like glass) that was meant for putting hot saucepans on. And low and behold he didn't have a sharp knife in the house for dicing the chicken, not too many worries I had my Lwt Calypsy Jnr PE with me. It made for a beauty slicer and dicer <img src="smile.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0> , although I did wish I had a Lrg Calypso with me <img src="sad.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>



Food prepared, time to clean the utensils, starting with the most important first.

Well I wasn't too surprised to find the top third of the Calypso blunt, I did have a very fine edge on it and I was slicing onto a hard surface, but I was shocked to find that it wasn't just blunt, it looked as though the edge had been abraided away <img src="sad.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>

This isn't something that steeling or stropping can bring back, in fact I have just given it 15 minutes on the dark grey stones of my sharpmaker, and I still haven't got the bevels to meet yet !!!! <img src="sad.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0> <img src="sad.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>



So the moral of the story is, keep your fine edged knives away from any lightly textured &quot;glass cutting boards&quot;, also when you go to someone elses to cook take &quot;everything&quot; you will need.



Walk softly, carry a big stick.

[CKE]

Glass cutting boards are killer. I have seen an entire cutlery set ruined by them. I mean the edges were wire edged to the point of being curled back over. Sheesh! I good heads up thanks yog!

"everything else is just a jeep"

[kraziekurtis]

Sorry to hear that <img src="sad.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>

Will the diamond stones work maybe?

[dialex]

This shouldn't happen to a Calypso (even junior) <img src="wink.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0> No wonder your brother didn't have a sharp knife in the whole house with those glass boards. Tell him there's a brand new discovered material named &quot;wood&quot;. Last testings in the laboratory showed that it can perform even as a cutting board <img src="tongue.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>

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[Knife Knut]

I HATE THOSE THINGS!
My sister also says the noise made when using those atrocities drives her crazy.
What can we do to abolish those things?!



Knife Knut on a shoestring budget. <P>RKBA

[Knife Knut]

Come on! No one else hates this idiotic invention? <img src="sad.gif" width=15 height=15 align=middle border=0>

Knife Knut on a shoestring budget.

[vampyrewolf]

I have a good wood one, a small soft plastic(I can cut into it with my butcher's just pressing and not kill the edge), I have a hard plastic roll up, and if I can find it again(if I still have it) I have a bamboo mat-type thing that works... sushi mat but it works for a travel cutting board.

My Word, My Honour, is my Life.

[Dijos]

I bought a henkels santoku and spent a lot of time sharpening it. I wouldn't let my mom touch it, as she ruins all kitchen cutlery. Anyway, my new knife was dull all the time. Glass cutting board, dammit! only plastic for me now..