/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Why was the day ruined? did you not have a cheese slicer or a knife?

why the fuck can't you say 5mm? Half a centimeter means nothing to anyone. Might as well use imperitard scale.

>>4351852
dumb/10

>>4351852
maybe he's not in the stone ages like the eurotrash?

>>4351853
>Metric system
>Stone age

Not even that fag, but nigger, do not start this.

>>4351852
>why the fuck can't you say 5mm? Half a centimeter means nothing to anyone. Might as well use imperitard scale.
What are you talking about? I think you were the only one having issues.

>>4351853
Must be why all researchers, including American ones, use the metric system.

>1/100405", 1/1574754 oz

I don't get it
What's wrong with it?

>>4351897
Idk what OP is complaining about but I like thin slices of everything––cheese, ham etc

ITT: My arbitrary system of measurement is better than your arbitrary system of measurement.

Thick cheese is only good on crackers.

Prove me wrong.

is that velveeta?

>>4351927
Thick cheese breaded and fried
/thread

>>4351992
Cheese curds are better though.

>>4351829
Just use a knife.
Or buy sliced cheese if you're not capable.

>>4351927
You are correct sir.

>>4351852
most pointless, autistic post of the day

Lets make this a cheese thread.

What's a really rich creamy soft cheese, sort of like brie and camembert but is unique somehow?

I'm really craving cheese.

I for one say OP is a fag.
A nice thick wedge of rich cheese, enough to actually slow my chewing, makes a sandwich go from pleasant meal to decadent delectable.

Goddamn I could really go for a thick slice of cheese now. Mmmmm

>>4351852
no one uses millimetres in colloquial speech, ya dingus. that's a unit for something one has precisely measured or at least knows that the exact measurement is.

But you are a fatty, >>4353764; your opinion is not relevant.

>>4354228
Yes they do, and they call them mil's.

>XYZ is five mil's thick.

>>4354255
it's easier to say

> five mil'

than

>half a centimeter

>>4354238
yes, for a thing with known measurements.
millilitres are too precise for visually estimating the thickness of a slice of cheese.

>>4354255
centimetres and millimetres are equally precise

>>4354256
it's easier to say "feuh" or "slub" or "juul" than either, that doesn't mean anything.

>>4354261
yes, but colloquial speech takes influence from imperial measurements. inches and feet are used in questimations, and the nearest analogue to an inch is the centimetre. "half and inch" => "half a centimetre"

>>4354284
>it's easier to say "feuh" or "slub" or "juul" than either, that doesn't mean anything.

five mil' means five mil'

>yes, but colloquial speech takes influence from imperial measurements. inches and feet are used in questimations, and the nearest analogue to an inch is the centimetre. "half and inch" => "half a centimetre"

We agree that language evolves then.

Mil' is the colloquial term for millimetre.

One purpose utensils are useless and don't belong in the kitchen, can-openers excepted

>>4354299
mil's still aren't used colloquially unless the exact measurement is known.

>>4354322
but they are

yall niggas dumb

>>4354329
not for guestimations, only for known measurements.

even then, that gets ridiculous. no one needs to say "750 millilitres", we ought to switch to decilitres.

>>4354338
speak for yourself

>>4353747
get brie

>not biting cheese directly from the block
>not then spitting this bite of cheese into the dish being prepared

Is it not 2013?

>>4354336
Lern to Ergonomics...

>>4351852
If you were able to know it was 5mm then where is the failure in communication, faggot?

>>4354437
Ok this seriously made me loose my shit

>>4354485
You shat yourself?

What the fuck is this thread

>Autists arguing about millimeters versus centimeters
>People calling each other fat
>People arguing over cheese slicers
Jesus fucking Christ is this still /ck/?

>>4354549
holiday weekend, bru.

at least it's not another ramen thread.

>>4354571
>at least it's not another ramen thread.
I think Id prefer that.

>There will never be a quality at home solution for slicing blocks of cheese

>>4355368
just do what I did.
>buy random cheap wire cheese slicer, pic related
>buy a small length of titanium wire, you can get this online on most chain mail supply websites
>replace shitty wire that came with cheese slicer
>??????
>enjoy thinly sliced cheese

>>4355368
How about a fucking knife?

>>4353747
Munster.

>>4354336
This. Use an osthyvel or get fucked.

>>4353747
>"Unique" "Cheese"

Velveeta. The most "unique" "cheese" you will ever eat

>>4355387
Alton? Alton brown is that you?

>hamburger bun
>entire camembert wheel
I call it the camemburger.

>>4355521
no, but someone who has seen damn near every episode of good eats and likes to improve things.

>>4355569
Why would you think titanium is better than stainless steel or aluminum for cutting cheese?

>>4355527
What you do, see, is you go into a McDonald's double cheeseburger, and what you do is you open it up, and you put a wheel of camembert in the middle.

>>4355585
strength. I've tried stainless steel and aluminum before they actually start to stretch and deform pretty quickly. The titanium one i made has lasted me for about 5 years of almost daily use and is still holding straight and tight. there's a reason they use it for prosthetics on people.

>>4355636
There's also a reason they don't really use it for knives.

Titanium shouldn't perform better at this than stainless steel.

>>4355647

What's the point of arguing with someone like this. It's like trying to convince the amway lady that it's a pyramid scheme. It will just get both of you angry and nobody wins.

>>4355647
pretty sure the reason they don't use titanium for knives is
1. It would be expensive as fuck
2. you would need special equipment to sharpen them.

other ten those 2 reason, a titanium knife would probably work just as well as a stainless steel and last longer, but i'll look up some info on that see if i could find a specific reason why.

>>4355657

It doesn't hold an edge the way a good knife steel does.

Maybe the other guy had only tried shit tier steels and that's why it seemed great.

>>4355657
i probably should of looked it up before posting, but from what i read its because you cant get a sharp edge like you can with steel, but there are knives made of titanium out there because they are so damn tough. Anyways i wasn't talking about knives in my first post because a thin piece of wire and a edge on a knife are 2 different things.

>>4355657
Titanium is weaker by volume than steel. To have the same strength, you need a thicker blade. This makes it inferior for cutting, especially in something like a cheese cutter.

Titanium is mostly preferred over steel where weight, corrosion resistance, or heat tolerance is important.

>>4354338
> we ought to switch to decilitres.
I'd rather not. I find it easier to keep the units straight in my head when they're all sets of 10^3. Having to juggle the powers from meters->centimeters->millimeters is confusing enough.

>>4351889

>Basing your unit of distance on the immeasurable circumference of the Earth.

Shit nigger at least I can measure how long the King's foot is.

>>4355387
>>4355521
Can't be, it's not a multitasker.

Speaking of Alton, has anyone who uses Twitter ever asked if he's visited /ck/?

>>4355694
Doesn't matter what the primal basis for the measurement is, it's how the larger and smaller portions of that measurement interrelate that makes one superior to the other.

Join the master race and your problems will cease to exist.

>>4354255
>measuring a unit of length with a unit of volume