Egg Slice

I found it very useful . Tempering steel, riveting, proper soldering , brazing etc .We got to use lathes and milling machines . Somebody left the chuck key in and it embedded itself in the ceiling . We also cast aluminium and did some blacksmith stuff with red hot iron. I leaned how to anodise aluminium with sulphuric acid I doubt that elfin safety wouldn't allow any of that nowadays.

We did some woodwork , but I wasn't any good at that; I'm still not.

Brian

Argument by authority.

Presumably, also, it is forbidden to use an egg-slice to remove bacon, sausages, mushrooms, hash-browns, etc from the frying-pan.

What do you do if you want to buy one and you can't find one on display? Do you say, "Can I have a funny slotty thing?" In the UK we have special names for things.

Spatulas have narrow, flexible blades. Too narrow to life a fried egg.

Not sure why a fish slice is a slice.

We still had separate Woodwork, Metalwork (but spent much less time doing the latter) and a totally separate EWTP.

Woodwork covered tool use, making things from wood, but also strayed into fibreglass and into land-yacht design and model testing.

Metalwork covered casting, marking out, cutting, forging and welding.

EWTP covered technical drawing, use of hand tools, drilling, tapping, milling, metal planing, surface grinding, turning.

They all had their uses, but as my parents started out as a draughtsman and a tracer and at home we had a drawing board (later CAD), an industrial pillar drill, a jig-borer, a metal lathe, welding gear, did a lot of plumbing, DIY, electrics, etc. The school classes didn't tell me that much. Indeed my EWTP teacher rushed over one day to tell me that my project (partly made at home and for later use at home), had been upgraded by the exam board and it was his first ever 100% score.

Turning and milling were outside the remit of metalwork for us - we had the option of Engineering Workshop Theory and Practice for that.

No idea what that means?

If it's your egg slice you can do what you like with, careful about using it to scratch you bum if it's just come out of a frying pan though.

Inherited from cake slice?

Nothing stops you giggling for it.

Rodders doesn't do cooking. He orders Pizzas or gets his mum to do it.

The answer is specific, the item we are talking about is a fish slice, a slotted spatula or a slotted turner.

An egg slice is a thing for slicing (hard boiled) eggs. End of.

You can argue that its silly, but that's English for you.

No, some spatulas do, a *slotted' spatula is a fish slice

In general a spatula is a broad flat implement. How broad and how flats is moot. Those sets of wooden things you buy are ALSO spatulas.

As is that ghastly rubber thingy you use on non stick pans.

It just is. Not sure why a torque wrench isn't a spanner.

So e.g., you get idiots in the guardian saying '97% of scientists think...' as if that meant something.

Before Einstein., 99.99% of scientists thought Newton was right.

I call it 'Bandar Logic' after Kipling's 'Bandar Log' , the monkey people, who claimed 'we all say it, so it must be true'.

Interesting, sounds like a good description of socialist dogma/propaganda. In this case it was references from dictionaries that have rather more credibility than me when it comes to explaining the meaning of words.

It may be English but it's wrong, you need to distinguish between slice and slicer.

What's a cake slice? (I know what a slice of cake is.)

My steel bladed spatula is 1.25" wide.

Mine is 2-1/8" wide.

I have two ghastly rubber things: one is 2" wide and the other is 2.5".

None of the aforementioned items is slotted or in any way suitable for turning or removing a fried egg from a frying pan.

Maybe it's a US invention.

Figures and I am familiar with that word, but its very unclear why that particular state ended up with that particular word for that given that it was one of the later states.

And why buses were never called omnis anywhere I am aware of.

Well yes, if it is something that is *defined by humans* then