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[multipurposegoddess]

What was happening with me yesterday? Oh, right:

• 08:03 Sourdough report: bread from John Muir Day Camp recipe is yum.
• 11:50 Bagel guillotine is here, hooray!

So, the thinking on this is: I make a dozen to 18 bagels once a month, we eat a couple and freeze the rest. Cutting them when they are frozen doesn't work, so I have to slice a whole mess of bagels, and while I am fine doing a few I figure that as x=bagels I slice with a bread knife increases, the probability that I will slice myself but good with said bread knife approaches 1. So, I used a birthday gift certificate from my Mother-in-law to get myself a guillotine (I *think* I got the Cook's Illustrated recommended model...). Next bagel making day is Tuesday, so we'll see how it performs then.

• 11:51 Also hooray: Kurosawa movies on TCM Tuesdays this month. DVR will be getting a workout!
• 11:54 Also got a copy of Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking. Even before I open the cover I am in love with this book.
• 12:13 I'm a little disturbed at how much I want to bake more stuff using Ratio. Must resist. Freezer already full.

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Comments

[sail-aweigh.livejournal.com]

You have no idea what my brain conjured up when I saw the phrase "bagel guillotine" above. o.O

Fat bagels with teeny little heads and scrawny necks, trapped in a cage of movable steel knives, coming closer and "Whack!" Off with his head, this bagel is a traitor to leavened wheat products. He's so innocuous, they don't even boil him in oil, they boil him in water! Poor little bagel man. Decapitated in the name of hunger. Or possibly you just wanted to use up some cream cheese and he was the best vehicle for that. ::sniffle::

[tskaredoff.livejournal.com]

Hee! They are the aristocracy of yeasted bread, after all. The proletariat rustic loaves won't stay under the bagel heel forever.

It totally looks like a guillotine, though. Check it: http://www.amazon.com/Larien-1510-Guillotine-Special-Edition/dp/B002H04WI2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1268254006&sr=8-2