Ceramics 101
December is a good month for me. Christmas, my birthday, and Melissa's and my anniversary. Of course it means I get nothing else all year long, and then a big flurry in December, but it works pretty well for me.
This year, I got a way cool anniversary present. A ceramic paring knife from Kyocera. Wow, it's a beaut! My paring knife up until now has been some p.o.s. thing I got when I first got out of college, and it's my own fault that I never upgraded it. Ceramic knives are very sharp, and keep their edge for a long, long time. Unfortunately, they're also very delicate, so they require some care.
So what did I pare with it? Well, all that came to me was to segment a lime, removing all the membranes, which is pretty boring but it's what I had at hand. The knife worked beautifully, cutting right down to the center with no problem, and creating beautiful little wedges as I turned them out. When I do this with my chef's knife, I end up smushing some of the wedges, but not this time.
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