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It turns out that it’s very easy to make a shaped knife for slicing any vegetables yourself. You only need two parts, which every master has anyway. With this device you can cut carrots, cucumbers, potatoes and other vegetables into a beautiful spiral. And then decorate your dishes as you please.
Will need
- A piece of PVC or polypropylene pipe does not matter, the main thing is that the internal diameter matches the size of your vegetables.
- Blade from a stationery knife.
Required tool: hot glue gun, utility knife, hacksaw.
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Making a figured knife for vegetables
Stepping back one centimeter from the edge of the pipe, use a hacksaw to make a cut at a slight angle (about 10 degrees), to a depth slightly greater than half the diameter of the pipe.
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We cut off the burrs with a utility knife.
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Then we cut off a piece from the pipe 5 centimeters long.
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We also cut off the burrs with a knife. Next, insert a blade from a stationery knife into the cut made earlier.We bite off the excess with wire cutters (be careful: fragments fly in all directions, use safety glasses).
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To prevent the blade from flying out during operation, glue the groove with hot glue.
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The figured vegetable knife is ready. We insert, for example, a cucumber into it and rotate it. The result is a very beautiful spiral.
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The thickness of the cut depends on the bevel angle of the knife.
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If you cut potatoes and then fry them in the oven, you will get a very tasty and original side dish.