mini cheese warmer!

[nid_dabeille]

Oh my goodness, I was only just today reading about Jack's new silver cheese warmer, and then I looked at today's new items on my favorite SP Miniatures, and they have a new silver cheese warmer!!!

For only $345!  Buy it for me right now.



It looks similar to the one in the movie (Master and Commander, I mean), but actually the one in the book is heated with a spirit lamp, and this one is heated with hot water in the space below the little trays and then held over a fire.  Actually, come to think of it, Jack's cheese pan sounds kind of like a raclette - the cooking apparatus, I mean, not the cheese.

Comments

[saibrrmen.livejournal.com]

Phowar, that's beautiful. *loses several hours on miniature site* D:

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Yes it is. I adore that site.

[saibrrmen.livejournal.com]

Somehow everything's more interesting in teeny form.

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

That has always been my view! Did you ever have a dollhouse?

[esteven]

Maybe you can find a separate spirit stove some time? Or contact them and have a unique piece made? :D I liked the short description of how to do Toasted Cheese Bread pieces soaked in wine were placed in the little pans. Slices of cheese were placed on top It would be nice to know if Killick did the wine soaking too. He would have liked it.

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Have a unique piece made? When the standard one is already $345? Erk... well if I'm doing that, I might as well ask them to make me some plates with a hawser-laid border too. :D

I was intrigued by the bread and wine part too. Interesting taste combination.

[esteven]

to make me some plates with a hawser-laid border too. :D
Be careful to order the border the right way round then. *g*

Interesting taste combination
Though fresh baguette, cheese (pref camembert) and a dry red is always a welcome threesome.

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

But one doesn't usually dip the cheesy bread in wine, though. It sounds like it would be soggy.

[esteven]

True, but if there is only hard tack and some hard grated cheese left, soaking in wine may be the only chance to get everything edible...

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

That makes sense.

[shipotl.livejournal.com]

That is the most adorable thing!

But $345?!!! Wow!

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

I know, I know!

[kindstar.livejournal.com]

Not so grand, but a place called Miniature Cottages features a place called Tennessee Crafters, and there is a fellow named Fred Cobbs who makes things old and seaworthy in which you might be interested. Very likely you know of this already, thorough sort that you are, but I thought I'd mention it in the event you didn't.

[grace-poppy.livejournal.com]

Hmm, interesting! I'm not sure if I know his work or not, but I'm about to go look him up. Thanks! :D

[tuilelindowen.livejournal.com]

Just a note here to say I've friended you because not only do we have M/C in common, but also I love your music posts and I am posting here because I have a whole house full of miniatures. I worked for years on a large 1:12 dollhouse, lighted, two stories, all the accessories and then a windstorm blew out a window and crashed and destroyed the whole enterprise against a wall. I saved as many of the little miniatures as I could, but never did the house again.

Anyway, this silver piece reminds me of things I used to collect from a fellow in Albuquerque who I'd meet at miniature trade shows. Nowadays I just put up little vignettes in my curio cabinets among my china and other collectibles, one of my favorite pieces is a 1:12 fully strung celtic harp. Have you seen Brooke Tucker's work? Her theories behind miniature display still help me a lot. She's known more for her miniature accessories, but it is her display theory that has helped me the most. She's retired now, but here's a link to one of her displays (she calls them "Put-Abouts"): http://www.brooketucker.com/13.htm

Her basic theory is to keep the eye moving around corners inside your miniature displays, so it is always a little voyage of discovery.


Also love your M/C icons, especially the music-oriented ones and the ones that make me laugh.