Sunday, November 29, 2009

One of the best kitchen tools ever and a product review

The cleaver. Huge and intimidating but awesome and wonderous once you get to know it.
I was determined to figure out how to use this puppy. It slices, it dices, chops, smashes. It does it all. Once I finally bought one ( a cheap one at that ) I had no idea how to use it but I wasn't going to let that stop me. I knew all the possibilities that were in store for me.
The first week using it was really awkward. To have such a huge utensil in my hands. Really I felt like an idiot but the coolest thing happened. Once the cleaver knew I was serious about learning how to use it it started to give me its secrets.
I didn't have to go online to figure this stuff out. The knowledge flowed from the knife, up my arms and into my brain. We are now best friends and I can't imagine life without him.





Here is my product review of a great bar of dark chocolate I discoverd about a week or so ago.
As you can see from the wrapper it's dark chocolate, no milk product at all and says it has almonds, pistachios and hazelnuts. Notice it does not say chopped or pieces of.
I picked it up and felt nothing but bumpiness. Good sign. So I took this $4 potential yumminess home. I NEVER pay that much for chocolate so I was really hoping that this would be worth it.



As you can see from the front of the bar it has separation. Separation doesn't usually affect the taste of chocolate so I wasn't scared.



Until I saw the back of it. How long has this thing been sitting on the shelf anyway????



Well, as you can see I took a bite of it before I took the pic and let me tell you. The separation did nothing to take away from the taste of heaven that this chocolate provides. It's a complete shame that its just been sitting on the shelf ignored when its just chock full of nutty dark chocolate goodness. Well no worries. I am willing to spend the $4 on you my chocolate lover. Oh yes. I will be there!

2 comments:

The Voracious Vegan said...

Nutty dark chocolate sounds perfect to me! Sometimes I'm in the mood for a little crunch in my deep dark chocolate and this bar looks perfect.

I want a cleaver! I would feel like a righteously ruthless kitchen pro!

mysticxian said...

It does actually make you feel like a kitchen pro. It's pretty cool.