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Angel food cake cutter

#1: Jota (jota) on Apr 2, 2021

This one I had never seen before, nor do I understand the need for one.
Thanks for the series, very inspiring!

The best kind of fook cake cutter, IMHO.

You can also use a wire to cut angel food cake. Like the wires with handles on the ends, used to slice into a block of clay, or to garrote one's enemies.

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Found to be solvable with deep lookahead by infrapinklizzard.

These were also useful for opening English muffins before modern technology made that much easier

I've never had angel fook cake. I bet it's good!

Jota, the reason it's lovely to cut a real angel food cake is that a beautifully made one is so tender that cutting it with a knife squashes it, no matter how carefully you cut a fresh one. Cutting it with this, you carefully work it down into the cake where you wish to cut it and gently tear it away from the main cake with the prongs. The trick is getting the first slice out...which I do with the aid of one knife slice along side of the prongs.

Paul...where do you live that you've never had angel food cake? If you live anywhere near my travels I'm of a mind to bake one and bring it to you! No one should go without tasting angel food...especially with strawberries and ice cream or whipped cream! Or some other fruit if you like it better.

Wow Kristen! That went DARK!

Sounds more like for devil's food cake.

I'm asking myself, why are people saying fook? Then I read my own description. I meant angle fook kake.

Thanks JoDeen I hope I get to try it one day!

Found to be solvable with deep lookahead by valerie.

Lol Jota...it's just a fussy foodie thing. Probably one of those tools that eventually will be looked upon as one of those fun novelty tools someday, though when we used to actually bake angel cakes from scratch, they were wonderful to use. Such tender high cakes we made! It was a pride thing. I haven't actually made one myself from scratch in ever so long. Now that does make me feel old. It doesn't stop me from remembering, though. The angel cakes nowadays really don't compare...and I am being honest. They are dense...and gummy.

As an odd side note, in the 60's when the "Afro" was popular, cake cutters were used as afro picks.

Look familiar?

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Good puzzle. Had no problem at all. On the 16 and 17 across. Fill in the 16 and if it doesn't work then fill in from the opposite end. Same with the 17. "Piece of Cake" from then on. Enjoyed the solve. Thanks!

Thanks for the correction Brian! I had a feeling that's what you meant, but I didn't want to call you out on it. :)

Learn something new everyday...never heard of this before! Fun puzzle, btw!

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Good illustration. Though simple, it did take guessing to finish.

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