A question for the world: How do you operate and apply cheese.

[Circusfreak]

Why have I never seen one of these:

outside of Sweden? are there any other countries that uses it? how do you survive without this kind of tool? how do you turn the cheese into something flat that you can put on a sandwich? knife? scissors? axe? chainsaw?

Wow, reading this post back to myself makes me sound incredibly hysterical and slightly insane. anyway, I'm still curious.

 

[Luftwaffles]

Heh american cheese....only second to surimi.

I just grab a knife and try to slice it the way i want. 2 slices off a kilo block usually fits a slice of bread

 

[Rawne1980]

Used to have a cheese slicer similar to that one.

My daughter broke it (they aren't designed to pry open locked doors).

Now we just use a knife.

It works out better because my missus loves cheese and can blame the thick slices on the knife being as sharp as a wooden spoon.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

Half the cheese I get comes in slices or shredded in the little package I get from the store.

BUT, I will get some cheese that are in blocks or wedges that I will cut if I want something to snack on. Like fresh mozzarella on crackers, tis yummy.

 

[Jonluw]

Snip.

Ummm... Norwegian here.
We're credited with inventing the cheese slicer.

If it's for sandwiches or something like that, I'll use a slicer. If it's anything else, I'll normally use a grater.

If it's brie or something, I'll use a knife.

Yes, I will take part of the honor for Thor Bjørklund's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Bj%C3%B8rklund] achievement.
He was Norwegian, which means I sort of invented the cheese slicer. A bit.

 

[Circusfreak]

Snip.

Ummm... Norwegian here.
We're credited with inventing the cheese slicer.

If it's for sandwiches or something like that, I'll use a slicer. If it's anything else, I'll normally use a grater.

If it's brie or something, I'll use a knife.

Yes, I will take part of the honor for Thor Bjørklund's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Bj%C3%B8rklund] achievement.
He was Norwegian, which means I sort of invented the cheese slicer. A bit.

I thank you and your people for this brilliant piece of human accomplishment.

 

[DugMachine]

Blasphemy, the only cheese that matters is prepackaged sliced 'MERICUN cheese. Yellow like my arteries.

 

[Jonluw]

Snip.

Ummm... Norwegian here.
We're credited with inventing the cheese slicer.

If it's for sandwiches or something like that, I'll use a slicer. If it's anything else, I'll normally use a grater.

If it's brie or something, I'll use a knife.

Yes, I will take part of the honor for Thor Bjørklund's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Bj%C3%B8rklund] achievement.
He was Norwegian, which means I sort of invented the cheese slicer. A bit.

I thank you and your people for this brilliant piece of human accomplishment.

No need to thank me.
I'm only doing my duty.
Just another day in the life of kitchen-appliance-inventor-by-proxy-man.

 

[kannibus]

Why have I never seen one of these:

outside of Sweden? are there any other countries that uses it? how do you survive without this kind of tool? how do you turn the cheese into something flat that you can put on a sandwich? knife? scissors? axe? chainsaw?

Wow, reading this post back to myself makes me sound incredibly hysterical and slightly insane. anyway, I'm still curious.

Okay, I have no idea what that is. However, to get back to the original question, my cheese gets cut with a knife into little rectangles, put on the bread and then slapped onto a grill.

 

[Eleuthera]

I usually get my cheese pre-sliced (not those plastic squares though), but I do have 2 of those in my utensil drawer, and still use it when I get real cheese.

 

[wintercoat]

Why, with a hand crank of course! How else would you drive a cheese engine?

>.>
<.<

 

[godofallu]

Pre sliced, or shredded don't require that.

When I get a block of cheese (Wisconsin, the best cheese in the world) I use a cheese knife. It's more useful than that tool.

 

[DoPo]

Best invention I've seen this whole damn month! It's...so useful clever an simple! Why hasn't the world recognise true genius?

 

[Powereaver]

Thats mostly used for Parmesan.. i see it often used in cooking shows to make shavings of it... but you dont have to bother a lot of the time with smth fancy like that.. a bog standard grater works 100% a-ok

 

[wintercoat]

Spoiler: The perfect device to slice a brick of cheese.

 

[game-lover]

Well... I've had it at least four ways.

The prepackaged, processed stuff like Kraft, the pre sliced stuff like Sargento, shredded cheese and the grated stuff... usually parmesan.

Oh and one more. We tend to get a nice block of Colby cheese that we simply cut into slices using a cheese cutter. Not like that Swedish one. Ours cuts with wire.

 

[Goofguy]

I just cut it with a knife. No need for any special implements, a stabby tool works perfectly.

Captcha: 'hot diggity dog'. Indeed.

 

[Erana]

clumbled and melted.
Or with a soft cheese, like a good mozzarella, just take a knife to it if I want to prolong the experience.

mmmmmmmmmmmmm.....