Americans and their knives......it's about the last thing on my list to care about: a kitchen knife. If it would be the maid losing the rubber feet of my sonos speaker about weekly or cleaning the tv screen 'con un pañito mojado', but a knife? We have Ikea knives, the worst ever.
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Yet another chef knife casualty..
There is a old Haitian guy that walks the beach in Cabarete selling coconuts for 40 pesos. He hacks off the top with an old piece of table silverware, knife and pokes a hole in the top and finally puts a straw in it. He must make a living out of it because he has been doing it for 10 years. You line up 25 men and I bet not one could do what he does and he does it in about 30 seconds.
You bring it upon yourselves
Why bring a Chief Knives if you know very well they will eventually be used to open a rotten can ?
Masochism may be ? :cheeky:
Now, if you want to donate them to someone who will take good care of them in the western world, and doesn't even know how to use a knife to open a can, I will be in DR in April. Gracias
Why bring a Chief Knives if you know very well they will eventually be used to open a rotten can ?
Masochism may be ? :cheeky:
Now, if you want to donate them to someone who will take good care of them in the western world, and doesn't even know how to use a knife to open a can, I will be in DR in April. Gracias
I bought several commercial chefs knives for my mother in law after she destroyed the other set I got her. A year later she only uses the six inch knife it get's dull every now and then but not destroyed. The others are still in packaging for future use. As far as steak knives better off buying the 40 peso one from sirena they get used for everything.
I disagree with you Gorgon. Maybe they do it your way on other islands but here we use a machete, not a Large one but a , let's say a 15 inch blade.
Don't think it's an american thing Mauricio. Remember the best cooking knives are still from Europe (Solingen, France, Sheffield) and of course Japan. It's a matter of being interested in cooking.
well, the reason why we are discussing this could be a matter of linguistics. when i think of cracking open coconuts, i think of dry coconuts, with no husk, which people crack open to extract the meat, which is then grated to make coconut milk, oil, and candy. i do not think of cutting a hole in a coconut for drinking purposes as cracking open a coconut.
Ok now I understand, sorry. Yes as when making coco milk. I was talking about the green fresh ones. Mea culpa.
as i said, it was simply a misunderstanding...no biggie.
as an aside, my friend's wife can take the dry coconut, tap it with a hammer in a few spots, and the thing comes apart in two halves!!
G, that's the way I was taught to open coconuts using a machete. They don't use machetes for that in Jamaica?
in Jamaica, if you go to a coconut vendor, and you want to drink some coconut water, the coconut guy uses a machete to hack it open, by chopping off a small section at the top, to let the water out.
if, on the other hand, you go to the market, and you buy the dry coconut, which has no husk, is dark brown, and looks like a mouse, you don't use a machete to crack it open. people hit it with whatever they can get their hands on, preferably a hammer.
you would never catch me walking under a coconut tree. first, you don't want to get hit by a falling nut. secondly, in Jamaica it was common practice for a scorpion to fall out of the tree, onto your head. not good. at least there are no scorpions to speak of in the DR.
I agree.
Real Men open a coconut with a 12ga....
Yeah but my neighbors complain on Facebook
This guy uses a huge knife the way we do it with a machete on the Caribbean coast of Panama. Well actually mostly th'e women do it because they are the ones who prepare arroz con coco, delicious!!!!!
My "mom use to do it by cleaning the coconut while holding it in the hand, rarely she broke the skin and lost the milk.
Here she's rasping the coconut for making the rice
[video=youtube;azJmMod6Gqo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azJmMod6Gqo[/video]
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