I have at least 3 of these. They’re hardly rare. I think it’s just you.
I’ve wondered the same as OP and never saw one in real life.
Probably it’s a regional thing, like how in some countries (as I recently discovered) they don’t know what a cheese slicer is and just butcher cheese with a knife.
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Why would you use a knife when you can cut anything with a spoon, if you give it a bit of force?
Why would you a spoon, when you can use a spork? It is the ultimate utensil.
You fancy people, I use rock, rock never fail.
Biggest rock is best rock.
I still use this joke any time rocks or size comes up in conversation but it’s so old that nobody ever gets it and they just look at me like I had a stroke.
I for one hadn’t seen that until now. It was funny. New joke is best joke.
Fools, the lot of you. I leave my cheese on the rocky shores of Ol’ Merry Bertha near the concrete jetties of man. There, the sweet mother deep slices my cheese with her sharp, salty caress, leaving my belly full and satisfied.
We all have knives built into our mouths, we could just be using those!
I prefer the spife
Hands off my knorks!
Cutting the type of cheese you use a slicer on, with a knife, compresses the cheese more. Young cheese is solid, but too fatty and soft to really easily slice through. You can ofcourse, but the quality of your slice will not be similar to the easily and reproducible quality you get with a slicer. Especially if you need many slices.
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“Instead of getting the tool designed specifically for the thing, just get a different tool that isn’t designed for the thing, and then learn to make really precise difficult cuts!”
I come from a big cheese area, and genuinely, no. A sharper knife isn’t the problem, the surface area of the blade is the problem. Even an oiled ceramic knife doesn’t cut cleanly through many cheeses (ceramic is extremely sharp, oiling is to attempt to prevent buckling and breaking because the cheese sticks to the blade). A wire cheese slicer is consistent, and safe and easy enough for a child to use (I know because that was my first experience with one, around 5-6).
Nope. The tools work very differently. It’s essentially a woodplane for cheese.
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Whilst my knife is unlikely to be sharp enough, I don’t have the hand skills to shave a 0.6mm wafer of cheddar off a block even with the best knife. My fine motor skills are excellent and I’m a professional miniature sculptor and have particular preferences on which specific scalpel blades I like to work with! My point being that I have significantly above average skills and that’s not sufficient.
If you happen to have the tools and skill to shave cheese that way, fantastic, well done you, but that’s an extremely uncommon set of circumstances. As you say, most people’s knives aren’t up to the task. Meanwhile even a child can use a cheese slicer to get a decent slice off a block.
…and yes, I did go and grab some calipers to check because I’m tired of this insane discussion. If you feel they’re a useless kitchen gizmo, cool, but lots of us love our cheese slicers because they’re tremendously useful and accessible.
No. There’s different types of tools for different types of cheese. Don’t get one if you only need it once. But a good slicer is as cheap as a decent short kitchen knife (€10).
The texture and flavour of a hard cheese cut with a cheese slicer is different from when one cuts with a knife. I like both but on a sandwich the cheese slicer wins every time.
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The proof of the pudding is in the eating. I’ve eaten both, side by side, because it’s a really interesting difference. A cheese slicer makes a wafer thin piece of cheese that I cannot replicate with a knife. It is not a skill issue either. A chainsaw and a fretsaw produce different results, regardless of the skill of the user.
However you’ve decided that your reckoning is better than my experience, which is astonishingly arrogant.
Just use a cheese slicer. You’ll find out that it’s impossible to cut cheese with a knive to the same sliceness.
Of course you had to be Dutch. I swear, all my Dutch friends have like 3 of those an a couple of those electric grills with mini pans for melting cheese below
In all fairness, the slicer isn’t even useful for all cheeses. It’s convenient for Edam and similar ones though.
The cheese slicer is a great Norwegian invention and much used in all the Nordics. And The Netherlands. And Germany?
I think it mostly boils down to “what is cheese” to you. If you think you can even have an argument about whether you should cut “cheese” with a cheese slicer, then you come from a place where they make sense.
In my fridge I’ve got parmigiano, gorgonzola dolce and I just finished a rare piece of emmenthal. A slicer would have been useful only with the last one of those.
But my sandwiches! I hear all my fellow northerners cry. They’re great with brie or toma. No slicer needed.
Is it? Where do you live? I’m in California in the US.
So once upon a time, you actually got honey at the market replenishing your pot, rather than buying jars in the supermarket.
This thing was always in the pot, and you did not use a spoon to get your honey, it works better than a spoon and you just leave it in the pot.
Today americans probably bleach their jars, spoons and bees, but honey is surprisingly shelf stable, having a pot with a little hole with this little plunger sticking out is fine really.
huh interesting, Ive never seen one in real life, but I got curious and found this video showing how it works: https://youtu.be/yylHE8w6I9Q
Ummm…
We’ve got four different sized honey spoons in our house!
Next they’re going to say they don’t own any wooden butter knives…
Why doesn’t your honey spoon have any honey on it?
Jar was empty too… I guess my wife cleaned it and didn’t re-fill it? 🤔 Honey is more her thing than mine.
You keep slowly rotating it as you move it from the honey to whatever you’re going to put the honey in so the viscous liquid essentially “orbits” this thing instead of dripping onto your countertop. Then when over the target you stop rotating and let it pour off.
I have
Liar. Prove it.
Yeah, prove it! Send us a picture with the honey dipper sticking out your fart hole, or we ain’t buying it!
Why would you buy a honey dipper that had been stuck in his fart hole?
For the flavor??
Bend over and I’ll show you
I own two of them. They are great for honey.
I’m guessing the people who don’t use them aren’t into honey. Like, maybe they have a little honey bear that’s crusty in the back of their pantry.
Lmao the little crusty honey bear. Been there, microwave it for like 8 seconds.
Or they really know their honey and put it in a honey dispenser instead of using this messy torture device.
does that work well with real honey that will eventually crystalize tho? (not a honey expert but it seems like the obvious advantage to a honey dipper)
No. I had one and tossed it when it went solid. Ordinary jar for the win.
Toss it? Ha! Hot water will fix it
i think the idea behind tossing it wasnt that its not repairable, but that they dont want to fix it every time and the jar doesnt ever need hot water to get fixed.
Check out this fucking neanderthal, doesn’t even have a Syrup Schlorper.
You can buy them in every cutlery section in my country. But it’s kind of useless, I’m not sure why this is the design that is associated with honey. A spoon works better.
You can rotate this as it’s dripping to manage the flow due to the grooves which you can’t do with a spoon. It’s for when you only want a few drops at a time or a reasonably uniform drizzle.
And then many more drops are stuck between the ridges and get wasted.
No more than you wash off a spoon.
The dipper is meant to stay in the honey pot, so you’re not wasting any, except maybe the last time you use it, or if you’re pointlessly cleaning it each time.
I’m very confused, can’t you just leave a spoon in the honeypot as well? Like, I’ve literally done this before, dipped a spoon in to our honey jar, spun it around to keep it from dripping, put the amount I wanted in my cup of tea, and put the spoon back in the jar. But usually I just get whatever amount I want on my spoon and then I stir my tea with it. It gets 100% of the honey off, I get to stir my tea to mix the honey in, and I get the exact amount I want, no guessing needed.
I mean if you like the dipper then you go for it, but I don’t really see the advantage here, even with usability, maybe just a tad easier to spin.
only if you’re using a wooden spoon. a metal spoon will leach its flavor into the honey
Are you not using stainless? In what way is stainless going to leech?
most stainless steel is not true stainless steel and instead simply stains less. to deal with the low pH environment of honey (4 pH), you would need a high performance stainless steel or alloy to avoid leaching flavor from the alloy into the honey. most cutlery is 416 which will corrode under the conditions of being in honey. true silver, i think, would be fine in that environment, but i wouldn’t want to put a spoon in honey without being confident it was a higher performance compound than 416, and at that point i could just get a cheap dipper
Spoon is made out of metal. Changes the taste of honey.
Really? How does that work? I’ve never heard that before
Honey is acidic with a pH of around 4, so it technically corrodes metal if left for prolonged contact.
Same reason it’s not recommended to use metal pots or utensil for curries, the metallic taste can leech into the food.
Do people actually leave spoons or knifes in the honey? I just open the jar, scoop out what I need with my knife and spread it on my bread. And a lot of honey also comes in squeeze bottles, that way you can just squeeze it directly on the bread or waffle or whatever. But even with those I still use a knife to spread it around.
And most utensils are made from highly corrosion resistant materials right? As they get wet and exposed to all sorts of stuff all the time. And what about that Nilered video about the taste/smell of metal?
I should save this comments section for when I need examples of why social media should be banned. A ton of people being dicks to each other over whether they use a honey dripper or a teaspoon.
Oh it’s called a honey dripper? This guy called it a syrup schlorper.
How many schmeckles does a schlorper cost nowadays anyway?
These are the same people that got their knickers in a twist about microwaving water for tea. Logic is not found in these types, only vibes.
I know what you mean but also there is a viseral vibe around microwaving water in particular that feels very caveman coded in the weirdest way.
A microwave oven’s function is literally to heat water in any food item.
I’m aware but there’s this weird visceral unga bunga energy to it. It’d be like using a diesel generator to farm crypto it just feels fucking weird.
You shouldn’t microwave water though, because there’s a chance that it could be superheated to the boiling point without looking like it and that can be dangerous.
A really small chance that is only somewhat significant for distilled water and can be very easily mitigated by lightly tapping a teaspoon for a test.
I do this everyday. The danger is not knowing but it’s not really riskier than being splashed by boiling water because you poured it too hard from a kettle.
I think you got that backwards - the caveman is the one scared of the microwave and its spooky woo-woo magic that damages the water’s aura
I have a honey pot with one of those that somebody gave me as a gift.
I tried to use it one time to be fancy when I made biscuits, and put it in the middle of the table during dinner. At first people tried to use it, but it was such a fucking pain in the ass, eventually they just stopped trying to be nice about it used a spoon to get the honey bc wtf is the point?
Well it does keep the honey not dripping if rotated, and works nicely if the honey is applied to hot water (as if you don’t, the honey will never leave those stripey grooves).
All of this can be said about a spoon too, though.
You don’t have to rotate a spoon
Idk what kind of honey you habe, but as long as your honey didnt cristalyse into a solid block you still have to rotate it to avoid it dripping.
You do because of the honey on the underside
No, you don’t jave to, but you can :) If the honey is very runny and you don’t want to get it on the edge of the jar, it can be beneficial.
I used these all the time as a kid. I haven’t seen one in a few years though.
Anyone with a decent honey set up has these.
Yeah, but just look at those black levels.
Jars of honey you bought at the supermarket used to come with them.
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I grew up in America and I saw them often enough. They must have grown up in Sucksville.
