{"id":57,"date":"2008-07-16T17:52:26","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T00:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/?p=57"},"modified":"2008-07-16T09:52:48","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T16:52:48","slug":"cocktail-tools-oxo-zester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"Cocktail Tools – Oxo Zester"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"OxoAs you may have gathered from my previous posts I’m a fan of Oxo kitchen tools.\u00c2\u00a0 So, when I needed a citrus zester\/channel knife I naturally turned to Oxo.\u00c2\u00a0 I picked up the zester you see at the left and I’d very much like to give it a glowing review.\u00c2\u00a0 But…I can’t.<\/p>\n

When I first brought the tool home the channel knife portion, which is what I was most interested in, was painfully dull.\u00c2\u00a0 It was so dull that the lemon twists it made were ragged and it was very hard to manage.\u00c2\u00a0 So, being a hacker, I busted out my dremmel tool and modded it.\u00c2\u00a0 I sharpened the channel knife and now it works like a champion.\u00c2\u00a0 However, the primary problem is that most people aren’t as geeky as I am and wouldn’t like a tool they have have to modify to make work correctly.\u00c2\u00a0 So, that being the case, I sent an email to Oxo informing them of my problems.\u00c2\u00a0 Their customer service was very responsive and they sent me a replacement right away.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, to be exact, they sent me two replacements for some reason.<\/p>\n

Both of the replacement tools have been much sharper and therefore more usable.\u00c2\u00a0 So, in summary, if you’re looking for a channel knife\/zester take a look at the all the options out there.\u00c2\u00a0 Make sure you get a tool with a nice sharp cutting blade, it will make nicer looking cuts and will be much easier to use.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m not going to give a referrer link this time due to my problems with the Oxo tool.\u00c2\u00a0 There are tons of options on Amazon though, so take a peek and find something you like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As you may have gathered from my previous posts I’m a fan of Oxo kitchen tools.\u00c2\u00a0 So, when I needed a citrus zester\/channel knife I naturally turned to Oxo.\u00c2\u00a0 I picked up the zester you see at the left and I’d very much like to give it a glowing review.\u00c2\u00a0 But…I can’t. When I first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[201],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tools","tag-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}