Why have I never seen one of these:

outside of Sweden? are there any other countries that uses it? how do you survive without this kind of tool? how do you turn the cheese into something flat that you can put on a sandwich? knife? scissors? axe? chainsaw?

Wow, reading this post back to myself makes me sound incredibly hysterical and slightly insane. anyway, I'm still curious.

Heh american cheese....only second to surimi.

I just grab a knife and try to slice it the way i want. 2 slices off a kilo block usually fits a slice of bread

Used to have a cheese slicer similar to that one.

My daughter broke it (they aren't designed to pry open locked doors).

Now we just use a knife.

It works out better because my missus loves cheese and can blame the thick slices on the knife being as sharp as a wooden spoon.

Circusfreak:
Snip.

Ummm... Norwegian here.
We're credited with inventing the cheese slicer.

If it's for sandwiches or something like that, I'll use a slicer. If it's anything else, I'll normally use a grater.

If it's brie or something, I'll use a knife.

Yes, I will take part of the honor for Thor Bjørklund's achievement.
He was Norwegian, which means I sort of invented the cheese slicer. A bit.

Jonluw:

Circusfreak:
Snip.

Ummm... Norwegian here.
We're credited with inventing the cheese slicer.

If it's for sandwiches or something like that, I'll use a slicer. If it's anything else, I'll normally use a grater.

If it's brie or something, I'll use a knife.

Yes, I will take part of the honor for Thor Bjørklund's achievement.
He was Norwegian, which means I sort of invented the cheese slicer. A bit.

I thank you and your people for this brilliant piece of human accomplishment.

Blasphemy, the only cheese that matters is prepackaged sliced 'MERICUN cheese. Yellow like my arteries.

Circusfreak:

Jonluw:

Circusfreak:
Snip.

Ummm... Norwegian here.
We're credited with inventing the cheese slicer.

If it's for sandwiches or something like that, I'll use a slicer. If it's anything else, I'll normally use a grater.

If it's brie or something, I'll use a knife.

Yes, I will take part of the honor for Thor Bjørklund's achievement.
He was Norwegian, which means I sort of invented the cheese slicer. A bit.

I thank you and your people for this brilliant piece of human accomplishment.

No need to thank me.
I'm only doing my duty.
Just another day in the life of kitchen-appliance-inventor-by-proxy-man.

Circusfreak:
Why have I never seen one of these:

outside of Sweden? are there any other countries that uses it? how do you survive without this kind of tool? how do you turn the cheese into something flat that you can put on a sandwich? knife? scissors? axe? chainsaw?

Wow, reading this post back to myself makes me sound incredibly hysterical and slightly insane. anyway, I'm still curious.

Okay, I have no idea what that is. However, to get back to the original question, my cheese gets cut with a knife into little rectangles, put on the bread and then slapped onto a grill.

Why, with a hand crank of course! How else would you drive a cheese engine? O.o

>.>
<.<

Pre sliced, or shredded don't require that.

When I get a block of cheese (Wisconsin, the best cheese in the world) I use a cheese knife. It's more useful than that tool.

Circusfreak:

Best invention I've seen this whole damn month! It's...so useful clever an simple! Why hasn't the world recognise true genius?

Thats mostly used for Parmesan.. i see it often used in cooking shows to make shavings of it... but you dont have to bother a lot of the time with smth fancy like that.. a bog standard grater works 100% a-ok

Well... I've had it at least four ways.

The prepackaged, processed stuff like Kraft, the pre sliced stuff like Sargento, shredded cheese and the grated stuff... usually parmesan.

Oh and one more. We tend to get a nice block of Colby cheese that we simply cut into slices using a cheese cutter. Not like that Swedish one. Ours cuts with wire.

I just cut it with a knife. No need for any special implements, a stabby tool works perfectly.

Captcha: 'hot diggity dog'. Indeed.

clumbled and melted.
Or with a soft cheese, like a good mozzarella, just take a knife to it if I want to prolong the experience.

mmmmmmmmmmmmm.....

kannibus:

Circusfreak:
Why have I never seen one of these:

outside of Sweden? are there any other countries that uses it? how do you survive without this kind of tool? how do you turn the cheese into something flat that you can put on a sandwich? knife? scissors? axe? chainsaw?

Wow, reading this post back to myself makes me sound incredibly hysterical and slightly insane. anyway, I'm still curious.

Okay, I have no idea what that is. However, to get back to the original question, my cheese gets cut with a knife into little rectangles, put on the bread and then slapped onto a grill.

Wait, you've never even seen one?

Wow. I did not expect this. I mean, here in Sweden, having those (called "osthyvel" here) is about as common as having a fork and knife.

In all ways, in all situations, and on everything...

I actually have one of those here in canada. I've had several.

I do beleive the reason you haven't seen one of them outside of sweeden is that when you're visiting a friend outside of the country at their house, I don't think that they would be in a hurry to show you that they own a cheese slicer even if they did own one.

Unless it comes up in conversation often, which is slightly strange.

To answer the question stated in the thread title: On everything, by whatever means.
(Yes even cereal)

other than the pre-packaged squares, I like getting the pre-shredded nacho cheese and melting it on toast. It's great for making nice little sandwiches I think. I would love to have one of those though...and foresee myself getting one at some point in future.

is how you operate and apply cheese.

I use one like that that has a roller in it, use it on extra sharp cheddar SOOO good :D