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I can think of no punishment.........
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Cncpaul
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Or study Japanese gardens. That will get you over this symetry thing. It's a western obsession :lol:
Cncpaul
New Shoots
Pete Maddex":2ug05q5b said:
No, i’m more of a cake diver :shock:
Mike G
Petrified Pine
AJB Temple":1tvllrg2 said:
Oh symmetry isn't an obsession at all. However, cutting a round cake without conforming with symmetry is just wrong. I mean, the thing has a centrepoint, and from there, everywhere you look is geometrically identical. You can't just hack away at it any old how. I mean, that's as crazy as cutting the corner off a rectilinear piece of cheese, or putting 4 empty milk bottles up one end of a 6-bottle crate. No-one would do that, would they.
Rezi
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I try to find the positive side of things when I can and my solution to the non-symmetrical cake division aberration would be to cut more pieces off until symmetry was restored (and eat those pieces) or just eat it all and growl at anyone that comes near you during the process.
Pete Maddex
Old Oak
Cncpaul":3cebll37 said:
Cake is a made up drug.
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Pete
Mike G":3qg5xpba said:....suitable for this crime against symmetry. Those with any sort of OCD tendencies, be aware that the following image might be disturbing:
Never mind the ocd issues. If the cake is continually cut like that then the last piece will be just icing. Yuk.
Mike G
Petrified Pine
It's worse than that, Andy. The top half of the cake was cut radially, and then my wife started cutting it to suit some boxes as she was sending some off to absent family. If it had been sliced "through and through" from the beginning, then this state of affairs would have been understandable, but to go from a neatly radially-cut cake to this unspeakable mess, without due warning, was a big shock.
Mike G
Petrified Pine
Rezi":3gmxwvvt said:
We had a family conference, and eventually came around to my way of thinking which is very much in line with your suggestion. We re-located the centrepoint, and cut radially from there through the very points of the aberrant square-cut bits, eating the offending off-cuts.
Unfortunately, things then took a turn for the worse, and I got out-voted and issued with a warning. I still think it grossly unfair that the remaining piece of cake was divided into neat thirds, meaning my wife and daughter each get precisely the same amount of the remainder of the cake as I do. This flies in the face of all logic and maths. No amount of "cake-to-weight ratio" or "I like it more than you do" made any difference. Selfishness, it is. Pure selfishness.
Gill
Nordic Pine
Mike, I bet you snaffled the marzipan 
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My wife would have divided it into four thirds. Maths is her strong point.
Mike G
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Gill":1a0q71ne said:Mike, I bet you snaffled the marzipan
There was an enormous pile left over after doing the cake, and my wife thought she had hidden it successfully. When I say "thought", I mean "thinks", present tense.
Malc2098
Sequoia
Far be it from me to suggest that anyone in our house borders anywhere near to being OCD, (there's only Mission Control and me), but all the Christmas cards from family are on the windowsill, those from former colleagues are on one sideboard, and those from school and other friends are on the other!
Woodbloke
Sequoia
Mike G":24v0tto2 said:
Makes perfick sense to me. Cut it conventionally into triangle thingies through the centre and the the pointy bit always, but always crumbles and then somebody always ends up with a bigger chunk of the 'good stuff'. Cut in into rectilinear slabs however and everbody gets an even sized bit of cake.
....and me and SWIMBO both love Japanese gardens. The one at Kanazawa is just completely stunning! - Rob
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I am as ACDC as the next man but I wouldn’t let it interfere with me getting cake, as long as it’s moist, nothing worse than a dry cake!
Just in case you weren’t aware Woodbloke, there is a very nice Japanese garden that’s worth visiting if you’re in the area, near Newark-on-Trent, built by a Buddhist monk, called Buddha Matreyea.
Pure land Japanese garden Nottinghamshire, Ian
Just in case you weren’t aware Woodbloke, there is a very nice Japanese garden that’s worth visiting if you’re in the area, near Newark-on-Trent, built by a Buddhist monk, called Buddha Matreyea.
Pure land Japanese garden Nottinghamshire, Ian
Gill
Nordic Pine
A good way to cut cake that's prone to drying out is to cut a slice in a line which bisects the cake straight down the middle. Then the opposing sides can be pressed together to create a seal. For the next slice, rotate the cake through ninety degrees and do the same again.
fiveeyes
Sapling
While I am a pie man, I would have gotten a hole saw, and taken the first piece, directly centered.
as always...YMMV
as always...YMMV
Phil
Old Oak
You guys are over complicating the issue. :lol:
Just buy a square baking tin.
225mm x 225 mm (Amazon UK)
Just buy a square baking tin.
225mm x 225 mm (Amazon UK)
Woodbloke
Sequoia
Thanks for that; my brother currently lives in Newark so we may pay a visit next time (jabs and C19 permitting) we're up that way - RobCabinetman":p4f8zi84 said:
Phil":4rdpdj5h said:You guys are over complicating the issue. :lol:
Just buy a square baking tin.
225mm x 225 mm (Amazon UK)
The problem withs square cakes is you cannot guarantee that every piece has the same ratio of cake to icing. A round cake, cut properly, does this.
clogs
Sapling
cant see the problem really.....lol....
NOBODY else is allowed cake, even visitors ....
when somebody turns up she gets the evil eye......hahaha.....
after 20 years she now knows better.....
It's just for me......
doesn't last a week in this house....
I only get this kinda cake twice a year and not sharing....sorry.....
NOBODY else is allowed cake, even visitors ....
when somebody turns up she gets the evil eye......hahaha.....
after 20 years she now knows better.....
It's just for me......
doesn't last a week in this house....
I only get this kinda cake twice a year and not sharing....sorry.....
Phil
Old Oak
Andyp":10am4z89 said:Phil":10am4z89 said:You guys are over complicating the issue. :lol:
Just buy a square baking tin.
225mm x 225 mm (Amazon UK)
The problem withs square cakes is you cannot guarantee that every piece has the same ratio of cake to icing. A round cake, cut properly, does this.
I would cut all that 'white' stuff off before eating. :lol:
Cant spoil the cake.
Mike G
Petrified Pine
clogs":1z3rd0nn said:
Well said clogs. :eusa-clap: :eusa-clap: A man after my own heart.
Luckily, I have great friends who also make a gorgeous christmas cake, but neither of them eat it enthusiastically. I help them out with it through January.
Woodbloke
Sequoia
Haven't had a proper, old fashioned Christmas cake for years. We usually have one of those lightweight Italiano fruity panettone jobbies, a slice of which is rather nice munched with decent cup of coffee and a mince pie - Rob
Cake examples from my 'phone. You will notice that none are cut laterally. And since I made all of them I am dammned sure none were.
Exhibit 1
Exhibit 2
Exhibit 3
And you just couldn't cut these any otherway than radially. Althought caveman ripping is recommended.
And just for fun here are some solbullar I have just baked. Three have vanished already. And it isn't the hound.
Exhibit 1
Exhibit 2
Exhibit 3
And you just couldn't cut these any otherway than radially. Althought caveman ripping is recommended.
And just for fun here are some solbullar I have just baked. Three have vanished already. And it isn't the hound.
Nico Adie
New Shoots
Good way of ensuring quartersawn, rift sawn and plain sawn slices I suppose!
Routermonster
New Shoots
Ignoring circular cakes for a moment, is this considered to be an acceptable way of cutting a slab of Davidstow cheddar? I get complaints of untidiness, but my argument is that the slab doesn’t last very long when I’m around...
Woodbloke
Sequoia
Looks about right RM, but either you or SWIMBO appear to have dropped the knife point down on a hard floor, just as I did to one of my Jap knivesRoutermonster":2lg06w40 said:
the other day. Ten minutes on the Tormek had the point restored :eusa-dance: Sadly, though, my cholesterol doesn't do cheese - Rob
Trevanion
Old Oak
Woodbloke":3ko1vcqj said:Looks about right RM, but either you or SWIMBO appear to have dropped the knife point down on a hard floor, just as I did to one of Jap knives
No, no, no... That's one of those new-fangled "non-pointed" knives so you can't stab people with them! All in line with the demand by the Church of England to ban the sale of pointed knives as they "have no place in the modern world".
It would be funny if it wasn't true.