And Now For Something Completely Different…Part Deux

In this installment of our recurring feature, we are going to look at how to find more uses for a wire cheese slicer. Many of us have at some point purchased or been given a wire cheese slicer as a gift and then stored the poor thing in a drawer or cabinet. It only makes an appearance when we have a dinner or cocktail party, otherwise it sits idle.

I’ll bet you never thought about how good it is at slicing other food which have tools of their own designed to slice them.

I make pizzas at home quite often and like many of you, find it challenging to thinly slice fresh mozzarella cheese. Oh sure, there are times I coarsely grate the mozzarella, however most often I prefer to slice it for the pizza. One day a couple of weeks ago I pulled out the cheese slicer hidden away in the middle drawer and man did it do a great job! You can slice as thin or thick as you like with the wire slicer.

After having such great success with the mozzarella, I tried it on a hard boiled egg. Once again, the wire slicer did a great job of thinly slicing the egg. Of course, you could slice it lengthwise, into wedges or thicker slices if you so choose.

Oh sure, you can buy a mozzarella slicer like one of these…

or you could also buy an egg slicer. I admit the egg slicers can have some interesting features like a rotating base that allows you “dice” the hard boiled egg.

If the mozzarella and hard boiled eggs aren’t enough for you, how about using it for slicing butter. Again, they sell butter slicers for this purpose, but you already own one! Or what about using it to slice strawberries or bananas? Making those decorative strawberry fans or cleanly sliced soft fruit for creative presentation.

As you can see, I think that the wire slicer is a very versatile tool. So why not pull it out of the drawer and give it new life! This one tool does so many things you don’t need to buy more gadgets.

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