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Serious Cheese: All About Cheese Knives

Dental floss works well for some semisoft cheeses, if you want your slices pretty, cut them while the cheese is still cold. But usually I just use a steak knife.

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Serious Cocktails: Drinking Without Drinking

A Porgy. Orange juice, pineapple juice and orgeat shaken together (add a little lime juice if you like it a bit less sweet). Pour over ice into a clear glass and add some homemade grenadine.

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Serious Cocktails: Where to Start?

The Darb - I found this recipe in a blog called Drink Dogma and I have fed it to several wine cooler and beer drinkers with great success. Its equal parts gin, dry vermouth, apricot liquour and lemon juice. The great thing about this drink is confirmed martini drinkers like it as well, so its good for a mixed crowd.

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From Serious Eats

Serious Cheese: All About Cheese Knives

Dental floss works well for some semisoft cheeses, if you want your slices pretty, cut them while the cheese is still cold. But usually I just use a steak knife.

From Serious Eats

Serious Cocktails: Drinking Without Drinking

A Porgy. Orange juice, pineapple juice and orgeat shaken together (add a little lime juice if you like it a bit less sweet). Pour over ice into a clear glass and add some homemade grenadine.

From Serious Eats

Serious Cocktails: Where to Start?

The Darb - I found this recipe in a blog called Drink Dogma and I have fed it to several wine cooler and beer drinkers with great success. Its equal parts gin, dry vermouth, apricot liquour and lemon juice. The great thing about this drink is confirmed martini drinkers like it as well, so its good for a mixed crowd.

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Serious Cheese: All About Cheese Knives

I personally think that a good serrated knife, particularly a tomato knife like this one featured on amazon http://tinyurl.com/mgteoy work great for hard cheeses.

I like to use the one-handed test - if you can't cut and dispense the cheese onto your handy cracker, you don't have the correct tool.

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Serious Cheese: All About Cheese Knives

I saw a knife like the one pictured in a Marshall's store, but I resisted the temptation to buy it.

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Serious Cheese: All About Cheese Knives

I agree with "jumpyfroggy" on the wire slicer ! I had an adjustable wire slicer years ago it was the greatest thing since sliced bread and the wire snapped after years of faithful use, but my ex threw it out before I could repair it [an easy fix] so I got a divorce.
I have not been able to find another adjustable wire slicer since but I found my new wife of twenty years . If anyone comes across one please post it on SE.
With all other cheeses I use various blade widths of the knives depending upon the cheese, but I'll use my wire if I can gives me consistent 1/4" slices . I use my peeler for a cheese shaver, another multi-tasker.

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Serious Cheese: All About Cheese Knives

The only cheese I eat is English its the best in the world it comes in all varieties. You cant beat Leicester cheese with a bit of onion, good old east midlands grub. Get it down Ya!

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Serious Cheese: All About Cheese Knives

This will sound funny but for cutting blocks of cheddar, swiss, colby I use my cleaver. It works great! For harder cheeses like parma and romano, we just use a steak knife or even a butter knife, coz we drop it in the grater and grate away...

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Serious Cheese: All About Cheese Knives

the best cheese cutter i have is the tensioned-wire style. Technically not a knife, but it is great for cutting uniform slices of cheddar and other semi-soft cheeses. (this one: http://tinyurl.com/oxbzrs )

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Serious Cocktails: Drinking Without Drinking

When ordering our Godkids nonalcoholic drink I usually cringe since they are always so sugary sweet. And to be honest the kids don't really like them that much. I love ideas for good tasting alcohol free drinks we can both enjoy.

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Serious Cocktails: Drinking Without Drinking

I make a drink I refer to as "Sparkle Juice". 2 oz sugar free grapefruit juice, 1 oz sugar free cranberry and sprite zero, over ice, drank with a straw. It's delicious.

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Serious Cocktails: Drinking Without Drinking

Equal parts orange juice, pineapple juice, and cranberry juice. Shake together and pour over ice. Add a splash of clear soda if you like it fizzy.

I started making this concoction as a kid, when I didn't care for any of those juices separately. The combination is not-too-sweet and really refreshing!

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Serious Cocktails: Where to Start?

I think you could do a lot worse than a Bronx- it's a drink you can give to someone who claims to dislike both gin and vermouth; after they taste it, you can tell them what's in it, and give a quick, quick, quick explanation of why an extra dry martini made with whatever garbage is in the well isn't the best introduction to gin. I mean, it shows off the mixability of gin, and there's some of that magic of the botanicals mingling, but it's still comfortably orange juice-y for a novice.

I see the reasoning behind things like margaritas and daiquiris, but I don't see those as really opening a lot of doors; I think you'll just maybe get compliments for making a nice version of something familiar, which will be forgotten as early as the next time high fructose corn syrup, citric acid, and Cuervo Gold meet in a blender.

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