Hi Foks
Just arrived this morning is a early Easter present from herself, something I've been after for a while'
It's a rather nice Tyzak bread rasp, used back in the day to remove burned bits from the crust to make them more palatable or more importantly salable. Since it's a user I'll give it a good clean on the working side. Ironically for the last 3 months ive not been able to bake anything as the last working oven on nthe range died and we have been waiting on a replacement ever since. It's due on the 18th but I'm not holding my breath. as I get used to the new cooker i'll no doubt give the rasp some use but I have mainly wanted it for use with the Aussie bush ovens out side. If you aint familiar with these they are used like dutch ovens but are made of thick spun steel rather than cast iron. You do need slightly more care while you are learning to use them but once you have the hang of it they are as good as a dutch oven but have the great advantage of being completely bomb proof, lighter and in the larger sizes, cheaper. The 15 incher i've used to do two 12 inch Pizzas at the same time. But I digress.
Any one who can heat treat could make a bread rasp from a wide flat single sided rasp. You'd have to draw the hardness out, or whatever the correct term is, cut a longer tang with a angle grinder, grind the teeth off the new section of tang, make a couple of 90 degree bends in the tang, reharden the toothed section and fit a file handle. Since I have a suitable donar rasp once the lad has learned how to heat treat I am tempted to make one for the hell of it.
ATB
Tom
Just arrived this morning is a early Easter present from herself, something I've been after for a while'
It's a rather nice Tyzak bread rasp, used back in the day to remove burned bits from the crust to make them more palatable or more importantly salable. Since it's a user I'll give it a good clean on the working side. Ironically for the last 3 months ive not been able to bake anything as the last working oven on nthe range died and we have been waiting on a replacement ever since. It's due on the 18th but I'm not holding my breath. as I get used to the new cooker i'll no doubt give the rasp some use but I have mainly wanted it for use with the Aussie bush ovens out side. If you aint familiar with these they are used like dutch ovens but are made of thick spun steel rather than cast iron. You do need slightly more care while you are learning to use them but once you have the hang of it they are as good as a dutch oven but have the great advantage of being completely bomb proof, lighter and in the larger sizes, cheaper. The 15 incher i've used to do two 12 inch Pizzas at the same time. But I digress.
Any one who can heat treat could make a bread rasp from a wide flat single sided rasp. You'd have to draw the hardness out, or whatever the correct term is, cut a longer tang with a angle grinder, grind the teeth off the new section of tang, make a couple of 90 degree bends in the tang, reharden the toothed section and fit a file handle. Since I have a suitable donar rasp once the lad has learned how to heat treat I am tempted to make one for the hell of it.
ATB
Tom
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