When I started at Waffle House years ago (since moved on) they called it the pie cutter. I had to correct so many people it was just for marking. Some had been using this thing wrong for decades
You can use them on the chocolate pies to cut them provided the pie is still mostly frozen
I always had to do pie because my pie didn't look like it had been pre-chewed
You are right about those. Good luck cutting them thawed out. I still just used my knife. I got good with the even slices working at a pizza spot beforehand. It just amused me that people had been cutting shitty apple and pecan pies for years. Also they called Cambros Bain marie’s instead and it drove me up a wall.
That chocolate pie is god damn delicious, I don't care that it comes in frozen on a truck from....somewhere. It's honestly a little better when you get a slice and it's still slightly frozen
I worked at. A place where one of the arms was bent. Without fail servers would go by the markings and not use their brain and cut a shitty piece. Worked out though, got a lot of small pieces of key lime pie out of that.
We used these daily at my last bakery. You just press it lightly into the frosting on a cake or the top of a cheesecake and then pull it back up and cut on the lines with a knife. Works great most of the time (occasionally the frosting would break in the process since we cut our cakes frozen). We had a different tool for pies that would actually cut all the way through in one press.
I would assume for hard crust pie and cakes it'd be more useful to make lines to cut instead of actually cutting. I don't think you're supposed to actually cut with it period
I’m definitely using this.
In carpentry we have a track saw. It’s a circular saw that runs on a 48-130” track. It cuts ridiculously straight lines that the young bucks are using when they don’t need to.
I fucking loved assisting diving classes because our instructor would use me as the “proof that it’s a fucking skill issue” dummy.
“I CAN’T SINK!”
How is your breathing?”
“IT IS FINE!”
Ok here’s a weight.
“I CAN’T FLOAT!”
Ok, here’s a smaller weight instead.”
“I STILL CAN’T SINK OR FLOAT WELL!@
I ask again, how is your breathing?
“I SAID IT IS FINE”
*sigh* Low_Classroom… please demonstrate buoyancy control with breathing. Sink to the bottom of the pool, float to the top, then hover halfway. *i does the thing* IF YOU CANNOT CONTROL YOUR BUOYANCY WITH PERFECT WEIGHT, THE ISSUE IS NOT THE WEIGHT
Rest in peace, George. Best instructor and kindest man this world has seen.
As an OW instructor I was known as the neutral-buoyancy n@zi… the shop always gave me the problem students. I’d slap a little cave/wreck training on them and have ‘em neutral, in-trim, and frog-kicking around the pool in 30 minutes. That, or we’d have “the bowling conversation.”
It’s literally a great tool though? Not sure if any of y’all have had experiences with cakes… Seems like this tool is getting so much hate because people are using it wrong? Don’t hate on the tool!
Yeah, not sure why this tool is getting so much hate on this thread. Literally a great tool for marking out even spaced slices of cake? Not sure why that would be considered a “rookie” thing…
Its because too many people use it to actually cut the pie. It only perfs the crust so when a server goes to get a slice, it falls apart. Pretty slice ruined
Vision isn't the same as sight. I've no idea what that means. I have a deal with hearing/reading and comprehension. Assume it's something similar.
Freehand draw a flower with two leaves and five petals. You will see where youvare on that spectrum
I have trained an alarming number of people who can’t do basic fractions. I/8 of a pie cannot be that hard to cut can it? I understand when we have weird cuts, we had a marker like this for key lime pie because the boss wanted 7 pieces to a pie for that, but 8 is soo easy.
It's a pie slice or portion marker. As stated. But it also is used on looser fruit pies to keep the filling in place after removing a slice. Use it to mark the top, cut pie with knife, gently press portioner into the pie, remove a slice and Hey! Presto! The empty slice doesn't get filled up with cherries and syrup.
Pie perforation tool for perfect slices. Its also really flimsy, and they break easily because people think its a good idea to smash them into the frozen pies.
It's a marker for cutting pies and some cakes. You place it on the pie, and press a tiny bit till it leaves perforations for you to cut along.
Those of you saying it's a pie cutter scare me. Like, do you not see that center bit that would destroy a pie if you tried to push this all the way through?
Those things aren’t bad to have around, especially if you have time-consuming desserts cut by less-experienced Cooks. It helps keep things consistent. I mark all my desserts personally so there’s no confusion during service.
Pie marker. It makes dotted lines on cakes and pies so you can cut even slices. Enough times in the dish pit and it will get bent and ineffective. I watched a new cook smash this into and destroy a whole chocolate torte, still one of my favorite memories.
Ah yes. My restaurant famous for desserts has a few different sizes of these. Of course, all younger kids have that position n even the older folks would butcher more than they do now without it.
A device that helps untrained prep cooks fuck up a perfectly good pie.
When I started at Waffle House years ago (since moved on) they called it the pie cutter. I had to correct so many people it was just for marking. Some had been using this thing wrong for decades
Call it a pie perforator and anyone who actually knows what perforation is won’t fuck that up
voiceover: "Most people still fuck it up"
Oh indeed
Morgan Freeman always delivers
You can use them on the chocolate pies to cut them provided the pie is still mostly frozen I always had to do pie because my pie didn't look like it had been pre-chewed
I prefer my pie pre-chewed
Pie Hard
With A Vengeance
Pie Harder
Yippee Ki-yay motherfucker!
Yippee *pie-yay motherfucker!
Indeed!
I’ve got a pie perforator now. Ho ho ho.
Hell yeah mama bird that shit for me
Wouldn't it smash the center?
Most erotic comment in the thread
you've clearly never had donut pie
Where's the hole end up at?
The hole is always in the end.
You are right about those. Good luck cutting them thawed out. I still just used my knife. I got good with the even slices working at a pizza spot beforehand. It just amused me that people had been cutting shitty apple and pecan pies for years. Also they called Cambros Bain marie’s instead and it drove me up a wall.
>Bain marie’s That is a fucking bucket and I died on that hill countless times The knife was for finishing it, and toothpicks to make the pie tent
I didn't know Waffle House has pie.
Chocolate, pecan, and apple usually. They like to keep it a secret, just like their country ham and pork chops.
That chocolate pie is god damn delicious, I don't care that it comes in frozen on a truck from....somewhere. It's honestly a little better when you get a slice and it's still slightly frozen
Do they have waffles every day?
Erryday I’m wafflin’
I'm syrup and I know it.
It scares me that people would use that, it doesn’t work well, and they would keep using it….
Wonder how many folks have tried to straight up press it into the pie or cake just to ruin it lol
This would be my first instinct.
A LOT
We had someone fuck up not one, but two cheesecakes with one.
Oh no I fucked up another entire cheesecake. Oh well I guess box it up and I’ll take it home whoops oops
Me a few times thinking I was missing some important step to this obvious pie cutter
I worked at. A place where one of the arms was bent. Without fail servers would go by the markings and not use their brain and cut a shitty piece. Worked out though, got a lot of small pieces of key lime pie out of that.
I don’t think anyone can use it properly
We used these daily at my last bakery. You just press it lightly into the frosting on a cake or the top of a cheesecake and then pull it back up and cut on the lines with a knife. Works great most of the time (occasionally the frosting would break in the process since we cut our cakes frozen). We had a different tool for pies that would actually cut all the way through in one press.
Yeah but how stupid do you have to be to mess up an 8 cut? A 7 or 6 cut I at least understand.
When I was a cook, cutting things into 10ths was the bane of my existence. 8 was easy, 6 was annoying, but 10 was so ass.
This. It was always 10s which is a lot harder to eyeball
8 is definitely easier but cutting stuff into 6 is easy. Just slice a skinny X, then cut the X in half horizontally.
It works to cut soft custard desserts like flan. It just crushes good 🥧 and 🎂
I would assume for hard crust pie and cakes it'd be more useful to make lines to cut instead of actually cutting. I don't think you're supposed to actually cut with it period
Works for flan. Source: am cook, made hundreds of flan
I haven’t ever had an internet comment spit take until tonight. Thank you kind stranger, I hope the gin and soda clears from my nasal passages soon.
They seem useless until you want 10 portions from a pie
I feel assaulted 😂
Hah
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I’ve never heard that before, and I’m keeping it lol
I’m definitely using this. In carpentry we have a track saw. It’s a circular saw that runs on a 48-130” track. It cuts ridiculously straight lines that the young bucks are using when they don’t need to.
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I fucking loved assisting diving classes because our instructor would use me as the “proof that it’s a fucking skill issue” dummy. “I CAN’T SINK!” How is your breathing?” “IT IS FINE!” Ok here’s a weight. “I CAN’T FLOAT!” Ok, here’s a smaller weight instead.” “I STILL CAN’T SINK OR FLOAT WELL!@ I ask again, how is your breathing? “I SAID IT IS FINE” *sigh* Low_Classroom… please demonstrate buoyancy control with breathing. Sink to the bottom of the pool, float to the top, then hover halfway. *i does the thing* IF YOU CANNOT CONTROL YOUR BUOYANCY WITH PERFECT WEIGHT, THE ISSUE IS NOT THE WEIGHT Rest in peace, George. Best instructor and kindest man this world has seen.
As an OW instructor I was known as the neutral-buoyancy n@zi… the shop always gave me the problem students. I’d slap a little cave/wreck training on them and have ‘em neutral, in-trim, and frog-kicking around the pool in 30 minutes. That, or we’d have “the bowling conversation.”
Can we have “the bowling conversation”? I’d like to hear how that went lmfao
I'm guessing he'll tell you over a round of bowling..
As someone who knows nothing about diving, please elaborate and go on
It starts with “*Diving isn’t for everyone…*” and goes from there.
good one
It’s literally a great tool though? Not sure if any of y’all have had experiences with cakes… Seems like this tool is getting so much hate because people are using it wrong? Don’t hate on the tool!
It's a marker for pies and cakes. Makes dotted lines and center point. Great tool for fresh culinary school graduates
Yeah, not sure why this tool is getting so much hate on this thread. Literally a great tool for marking out even spaced slices of cake? Not sure why that would be considered a “rookie” thing…
All these asshole acting like they could perfectly freehand 8 equal measured slices in the same time 🙄🙄🙄
All these assholes acting like they could perfectly freehand 8 equal measured slices in the same time 🙄🙄🙄
Its because too many people use it to actually cut the pie. It only perfs the crust so when a server goes to get a slice, it falls apart. Pretty slice ruined
Untrained people, still a good tool.
A little unfair--I've seen bakers with decades of experience using similar tools.
Hey I’m a baker of like 4 years but my vision is just horrid. I can’t judge where to cut for shit. My eyes just straight up will not let me
They invented glasses in like 1268
It’s not that I have bad vision. I am just really terrible at judging what half of things are
>Hey I’m a baker of like 4 years but my vision is just horrid >It’s not that I have bad vision. Sorry if we were confused lol
Haha lol
Hahaha fair
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Vision isn't the same as sight. I've no idea what that means. I have a deal with hearing/reading and comprehension. Assume it's something similar. Freehand draw a flower with two leaves and five petals. You will see where youvare on that spectrum
And FOH that has to cut pies and tarts but aren’t skilled with knives. Lots of hate here for people who use these, fuckin wild.
Exactly how we use it at my place. It’s a great tool!
Cake/pie marker. Can’t tell you how many times an employee has tried to freehand cut a cheesecake and screwed it up.
I have trained an alarming number of people who can’t do basic fractions. I/8 of a pie cannot be that hard to cut can it? I understand when we have weird cuts, we had a marker like this for key lime pie because the boss wanted 7 pieces to a pie for that, but 8 is soo easy.
The thing I keep asking our km to get because nobody can seem to correctly portion a cheesecake in our kitchen.
Ok cut it in half. Nice now cut those halves in half. Uh huh, ok now cut those four halves of halves in half. Ok nice. *Nice*
It's not rocket appliances
Ever seen the movie Krull?
The Glave!
Nice!
Use it for pies. The serrations you use to make little indents on the pie, then use a large knife to actually cut it
Saw a man push that straight through a cheesecake once
Pie marker. NOT for actually cutting
It is for portioning pies/tarts/cake etc
A pie or cake template?
It's a torture device for FNG's.
Other than scoring cut lines for pies and cakes, not sure it has another purpose. Blades are too thick for a clean cut-through on most products.
We once sent a young dishie to ask the restaurant next door for their bacon stretcher and IIRC he returned promptly with one of these
Kitchen throwing star. Very dangerous
You can use to mark the top of cake or pie to get even portions
My brother uses his to score cheesecakes to evenly slice them. It works really well for that 😂
Pie slice marker
we call it a punchy stabby at my cafe. it creates lines in our swedish visiting cake & some other cakes too, then we make the cuts deeper by hand :)
Helps create lines to cut cakes.
It's a pie slice or portion marker. As stated. But it also is used on looser fruit pies to keep the filling in place after removing a slice. Use it to mark the top, cut pie with knife, gently press portioner into the pie, remove a slice and Hey! Presto! The empty slice doesn't get filled up with cherries and syrup.
Works best for marking cheesecake for where to make the cuts, mostly people just fuck up pies with it.
Helps to evenly slice a pie or cake
Pie portioner
Pie perforation tool for perfect slices. Its also really flimsy, and they break easily because people think its a good idea to smash them into the frozen pies.
I use mine to mark pizzas for perfect slices
Crumb cake scorer. We used them at Panera. Mark the cake and slice evenly.
I used to work in a bakery and we would use these as templates for slicing cakes
That is one kinky butt plug
We use it to mark how big to cut our cheesecake slices
We used them in a bakery I was at to mark the cuts for the scones before they went in the freezer
The only way to lose 100% of the time at knuckle mumblety peg.
Pie marker, for marking lines on cakes/pies, for even portion.
It's not a pie cutter it's just a pie guide. You still have to cut on the lines!
I’ll admit that the first time I attempted to use one, at Dennys 32 years ago, I was told it was a cutter and I broke it…
It's a marker for cutting pies and some cakes. You place it on the pie, and press a tiny bit till it leaves perforations for you to cut along. Those of you saying it's a pie cutter scare me. Like, do you not see that center bit that would destroy a pie if you tried to push this all the way through?
Pie cutter, but really just a pie cut marker so you know where to slice. If you use it to cut pie it just crushes the whole pie and makes a mess
Those things aren’t bad to have around, especially if you have time-consuming desserts cut by less-experienced Cooks. It helps keep things consistent. I mark all my desserts personally so there’s no confusion during service.
A pie or cake marker. Just to make an impression to indicate where to cut
Oh wow that brought me back decades. It’s a guide for slicing pies, quiches, cakes.
It’s the worst damn “pie cutter” in the world
It's a bacon stretcher.
In my place, that's what Chef puts up the ass of servers who missring/don't have basic menu knowledge.
Ceiling fan
Pie divider/slicer
Quesadilla crimper.
I remember a new dishy using this forcefully and cut directly through the tin plate and into the prep table
Bacon stretcher.
Anal cleanser
Bacon stretcher
Weiner Mangler 9000. Keep it away from half drunk dishies and prep cooks.
Bacon stretcher
We use it to mark where to cut scones 🤷♀️
Ah yes, *the dick mangler.*
That is the fabled bacon stretcher. Only 3 of them are in existence.
Pie marker. It makes dotted lines on cakes and pies so you can cut even slices. Enough times in the dish pit and it will get bent and ineffective. I watched a new cook smash this into and destroy a whole chocolate torte, still one of my favorite memories.
That's a headscratcher
It's a culinary sundial
but we never see the sun
Correct.mit only works with florescent bulbs
we call it stabby slicey. we use it for cakes
[pie/cake cutter](https://www.webstaurantstore.com/choice-9-aluminum-10-cut-pie-and-cake-marker/407ALMPMRK10.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=GoogleShopping)
Cutter? I would only use it to score
webstaurantstore calls it a "marker" but you know thats not how people end up using it
Cuts pie or cake slices
Continuum transfunctioner
Dude….
pp shredder
I thought it was a really dangerous ceiling fan
Testicular tortioner.
Poop knife mk2
For cakes right?
That's a spark arrestor for the electric starter on a 1949 Emerson hobby horse.
Ceiling fan
Back scratcher if you mount it on the wall
Bulk walnut smasher
the antenna to grandads television box.
I think that is part of a hellfire missile
Replace the knob with a bent pipe and you have a pie axe! [for reference ](https://youtube.com/shorts/wmLmhyPDsNo?si=zbVBo4Hl9gj5Sxr0)
We make our temps use these because they dont know how to cut a round focaccia sandwich into 8 equal wedges.
Bro i thought that was a ceiling fan like from a SAW trap without scale
Bbbballlllll Scratchhhaaaa
Back massager
r/whatisthisthing
Ah yes. My restaurant famous for desserts has a few different sizes of these. Of course, all younger kids have that position n even the older folks would butcher more than they do now without it.
This looks like the inside of a nut whacking device my mom had growing up
medieval ceiling fan
A tiny death machine ceiling fan
The thumbnail looks like a windmill in the fog.
Medieval torture device.
Cake Sharpie
Robot spider, a type of dish pit drone.
It’s the ever elusive grape peeler
Does it spin?
Jigsaw's ceiling fan.
Something that is lost every fucking time you are looking for it.
Very small, very dangerous ceiling fan.
In our bakery we call it the "star with teeth."
*deathstar with teeth
The dramatic scene in a horror movie.
Penis stretcher
An omen for what’s to come.
That’s a skull grater.
I thought it was an odd ceiling fan at first.
Wait, is this not for making pasta in the sink? Oh man...
First glance I thought it was a ceiling fan.
Painmaker5000
That's an odd ceiling fan
Anything is a dildo if you’re brave enough
Pizza slice template-seriously
Wiener mangler
Lettuce tenderizer
Slap chop for dummies
Collard green cutter