Food & Traditional Knives

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Fantastic Mike, I'm really enjoying all the chip butty pics in the Guardians thread today 🙂👍
 
Frank.K said:
First task for this new kitchen knife was to carefully slice the foil sticker on these chocolates. Yesterday I oiled the boxwood handle with a liberal amount of olive oil and it was all soaked up today.
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I have been eyeballing one of those for a while. I have a few Pallares folding knives - I love them and they get pressed into kitchen duty occasionally, if I need something very sharp.

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When I was a boy, before the supermarkets came along, every other street had a row of small shops - a grocers, butchers, green grocers, hardware store, and a bakery. In the bakery, the missus would be up front serving customers, while the baker baked bread, and all sorts of delicious treats, in the back. There aren't many left like that unfortunately.

One of the things they baked were pikelets, either square, or more usually round. About half the country called them 'crumpets', and when the supermarkets and big bakeries came along, they said 'pikelets' on one side of the packet, and 'crumpets' on the other, but because they were called crumpets in London and south east England, it wasn't long before they were just sold as 'crumpets'.

It's a shame that we've lost the old word, not least since, in Sheffield, 'pikelet' is an affectionate, but mildly derogatory term for someone who is being a bit daft.

Not only did the name change, but the quality began to go downhill, and eventually they were transformed from a delicious snack into something which tasted like cardboard. As a result, I have largely stopped buying 'crumpets', but I saw these square ones in the supermarket, and thought they might taste better. They didn't unfortunately ☹️

One day, when Yorkshire is an independent nation, we will dine on tasty pikelets once again! 😊😉 And in the meantime, I shall try to remember not to buy crumpets, which never taste anywhere near as good as they look! 🙄

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Just Tom. said:
I have been eyeballing one of those for a while. I have a few Pallares folding knives - I love them and they get pressed into kitchen duty occasionally, if I need something very sharp.

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I just got the same slip-joint as well. They are nice and quite inexpensive with the plastic handle. I’m not sure how much use it will get but if it does, they make them with nicer materials like wood and stag.
 
Jack Black said:
When I was a boy, before the supermarkets came along, every other street had a row of small shops - a grocers, butchers, green grocers, hardware store, and a bakery. In the bakery, the missus would be up front serving customers, while the baker baked bread, and all sorts of delicious treats, in the back. There aren't many left like that unfortunately.

One of the things they baked were pikelets, either square, or more usually round. About half the country called them 'crumpets', and when the supermarkets and big bakeries came along, they said 'pikelets' on one side of the packet, and 'crumpets' on the other, but because they were called crumpets in London and south east England, it wasn't long before they were just sold as 'crumpets'.

It's a shame that we've lost the old word, not least since, in Sheffield, 'pikelet' is an affectionate, but mildly derogatory term for someone who is being a bit daft.

Not only did the name change, but the quality began to go downhill, and eventually they were transformed from a delicious snack into something which tasted like cardboard. As a result, I have largely stopped buying 'crumpets', but I saw these square ones in the supermarket, and thought they might taste better. They didn't unfortunately ☹️

One day, when Yorkshire is an independent nation, we will dine on tasty pikelets once again! 😊😉 And in the meantime, I shall try to remember not to buy crumpets, which never taste anywhere near as good as they look! 🙄

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I didn’t know they made square ones. 🙂 Sorry they were disappointing. Perhaps because I’d never had a bakery-fresh one to compare it to, I quite liked the store-bought ones I had when we visited my brother over there.

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I’ve only ever found them here in the States at a couple places. One brand I found at a sort of posh local grocery chain here in MN. Those were sold refrigerated and they weren’t very good. The others I found at Trader Joe’s, and those were decent. :thumbsup:
 
btb01 said:
I didn’t know they made square ones. 🙂 Sorry they were disappointing. Perhaps because I’d never had a bakery-fresh one to compare it to, I quite liked the store-bought ones I had when we visited my brother over there.

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I’ve only ever found them here in the States at a couple places. One brand I found at a sort of posh local grocery chain here in MN. Those were sold refrigerated and they weren’t very good. The others I found at Trader Joe’s, and those were decent. :thumbsup:
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Cool pic Barrett 🙂 The square ones are nowhere near as common. I have some friends who bought a house in Nottingham, and along with it, they got an old pikelet bakery, and a couple of smaller outbuildings. They made square pikelets there apparently. Maybe they are better in Bath Barrett :) My local posh bakery has done them in the past, but only very occasionally . I imagine they're probably quite easy to make 👍
 
Jack Black said:
Cool pic Barrett 🙂 The square ones are nowhere near as common. I have some friends who bought a house in Nottingham, and along with it, they got an old pikelet bakery, and a couple of smaller outbuildings. They made square pikelets there apparently. Maybe they are better in Bath Barrett :) My local posh bakery has done them in the past, but only very occasionally . I imagine they're probably quite easy to make 👍
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Very easy to make although I've never actually made a crumpet.
I'll break out my toaster tomorrow for a breakfast pic.
Next up will be a scratch made chip butty.:p
 
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Frank.K said:
I just got the same slip-joint as well. They are nice and quite inexpensive with the plastic handle. I’m not sure how much use it will get but if it does, they make them with nicer materials like wood and stag.
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I find I use mine quite a bit - especially the 2 friction folders, for carving wood, believe it or not. They should be too big and cumbersome (not to mention dangerous), but they just cut so well I find myself reaching for them first when I want to start carving something. The wood handled one originally had a plastic handle too, but I made a more hand-filling one from a piece of olive wood. Here they are with today’s backyard harvest, to keep the “food” theme going:

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