Cheese conundrum

[The Great Wallsendo]

Made a cheese, cocktail sausage and silverskin onion "hedgehog" as the centrepiece for my buffet last night...

...any ideas how you can stop the cheese splitting when you put it on the cocktail sticks?

Cheers in advance

 

[mark]

let the cheese warm up to room temperature before stabbing it

or use a dremel to drill holes in it first


or use emmental

 

[kela66]

did you use half a big tetty coverd in silver foil as a base ? no party was complete without one when i was little ,not forgetting with the scone's with coins in them and tupperware beakers filled with weak orange juice .then a game of musical statues followed by passey the parcel

 

[SIXFOOTSTEVE]

Tony ,you need to run a fine hot nail through the cheese first as a pilot hole

 

[The Great Wallsendo]

served with a side order of yer finest Scotch Egg

 

[SIXFOOTSTEVE]

AHHHH I see ya problem .......ya sticks are about 1mm too thick in diameter .

 

[The Great Wallsendo]

Would go well with a cheeky vino after a hard days fishing on the boat don't ya think

 

[SIXFOOTSTEVE]

Hmmmm now there's a thought .

 

[jason]

agree with steve - you must used small diameter cocktail sticks not the wooden kebab style scewers and as mark said room temp cheese.

 

[kela66]

served with a side order of yer finest Scotch Egg

ha ha thats amazing apart from the "posh" crisps it look like you were having a proper 70S PEE AYE ARR TEE WHY because we got too & as the lad say you need the smaller diameter sticks that also double up as tooth picks

 

[Norman]

was gonna add something but by the time I got to bottom of the thread it had all been said lol ......... and yes , would go down well with the taste of a shiraz and the smell of a fillet ! (cocktail sticks or skewers ....... that is the question)

well done mate

Norm

 

[Charlie_Thompson]

Sausages are too real, hot dogs are the traditional meat based element. You could put windows out with those lumps of beetroot

 

[mark]

, hot dogs are the traditional meat based element.

ehh?? is that not an oxymoron

since when has there been meat in hotdogs?? thought they were made of noses, eyes and ring pieces

 

[SIXFOOTSTEVE]

Yes ,simply hoops and holes of any animal going as far as I'm aware .

Mind you I still eat 'em .

 

[Hiram.A.Biff]

As a joiner, Ill give you some advice. When Im driving a nail through timber, and dont want it to split, the trick is to turn the nail upside down, and hit the point so it blunts it, workd every time. Do the same with a cocktail stick!!!

 

[Hiram.A.Biff]

Just had another look at your pic, thems not cocktail sticks, thems datum pegs from Jewsons.

 

[The Great Wallsendo]

Have to confess the problem will have been caused by using incorrect tools in the first place. Instead of cocktail sticks they are actually bamboo skewers....therefore the issue was exacerbated by the exaggerated diameter of the pointed implement into which was henceforth prodded into the dairy product.

Ergo, henceforth verily

Norman - could you design a gubbins to successfully insert cocktail sticks into cheese squares of a certain size and mass more efficiently?

 

[Norman]

on the case mate !

 

[SIXFOOTSTEVE]

Norman ....keep out of that workshop ,you know what you're like

 

[Norman]

Tony, I`m sure I could modify you a mould whereby after several lead castings it would be warm enough to insert cold cheese to be warmed and softened with a view to adding a skewer (sorry cocktail stick) hole whereby the aforementioned cocktail stick could then be cleanly pushed through the warmed up cheese then ejected from the mould in perfect "skewered" condition .....

Norm