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Post-Halloween Fun
- Thread starter mPisi
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LOL!
A couple weeks ago my wife bought a pumpkin to make a "real" pumpkin pie. It had to be cut in half before baking, and she was struggling to get a big kitchen knife through it. It was a pretty dense punkin.
While she's not much on my big knives (relative term, mind you), she actually said "Why don't you try out one of those big knives."
It was music to my ears.
My choices were a 12" Sirupati, a Bilton, or Chiruwa AK. I selected the AK.
Since I was in the kitchen, I started by turning the pumpkin on its side and just chopping the blade into it a little. My initial thought was that I would just push the blade through, pushing down on the handle and the back of the blade near the tip. That would've worked fine, but then I heard the pumpkin calling out to be chopped in half.
So I took it out back, set it on some plywood, and whacked it on top, through the stem. A pumpkin is no match for a khuk.
mPisi, I'm looking forward to your report!
Parry
A couple weeks ago my wife bought a pumpkin to make a "real" pumpkin pie. It had to be cut in half before baking, and she was struggling to get a big kitchen knife through it. It was a pretty dense punkin.
While she's not much on my big knives (relative term, mind you), she actually said "Why don't you try out one of those big knives."
It was music to my ears.My choices were a 12" Sirupati, a Bilton, or Chiruwa AK. I selected the AK.
Since I was in the kitchen, I started by turning the pumpkin on its side and just chopping the blade into it a little. My initial thought was that I would just push the blade through, pushing down on the handle and the back of the blade near the tip. That would've worked fine, but then I heard the pumpkin calling out to be chopped in half.
So I took it out back, set it on some plywood, and whacked it on top, through the stem. A pumpkin is no match for a khuk.
mPisi, I'm looking forward to your report!
Parry
bismark77 said:
It turned out great! The decal on the pumpkin said it was a "pie pumpkin", but it was larger than most of the pie pumpkins I've seen.
Cut it in half, seeded and de-stringed, baked the halves, scooped the pumpkin from the skin/rind, mashed it up & mixed with spices. There was an egg in there somewhere, too. Not as easy as opening up a can, but not hard at all. And I got to use a khuk!
With the kitchen potential of HI stuff, I'm thinking I probably need to get a Pen Knife or Bowie for that Thanksgiving bird.
That'll be my excuse, anyway. 
