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  • Rewiring Cheese Slicers

    Cheese slicers
    Cheese slicers

    My ladies favor hard cheeses that are murder on cheese slicers. I just replaced the wires on a pair of favorite slicers, using 0.020 inch stainless wire. That’s thicker than the 14-mil wire they came with, so I’m hoping it’ll last longer.

    Being thicker, it’s also harder to push through the cheese, so it’s subject to more force and might break sooner. Ah, tradeoffs…

    What I really want are monomolecular wires that can cut through anything…

    I’ve suggested using a knife on the Romano and Gruyere, reserving the slicers for Cheddar and other sissy cheeses…

    Oh, the red stuff on the right-hand slicer is Liquid Electrical Tape. The handle is raw aluminum and leaves smudges all over the place. I’m assuming the layer doesn’t have much lead content, but who knows?