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Does anybody else keep a saw in the cutlery drawer
Ed Snow
>The reason I ask is, the other night some of my friends were over and we needed some italian sausage for the lasagna so I got out my large block I had bought at Hyvee some time in the past and sawed off the end. Seems logical to me. I washed it and put it back in the drawer.
They had the audacity to call me odd.
Let's see if I've got this right
Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA
>You got out a block of sausage, sawed off the end, then washed the sausage and put it back in the drawer...oh, no, you meant the newly-washed SAW back in the drawer! Now I get it.
Considering how many butcher's saws (which look like the Hulk's hacksaws) I pass by at garage sales, I don't think it's odd at all. I'm not sure I'd use my best Disston and Sons backsaw for the purpose, but it seems quite logical. A saw is, after all, closely related to a serrated knife.
Practice saying, "I'm just using this until I find a good butcher's saw," and when they look confused, follow up with, "What? You're not familiar with butcher's saws? Where the heck did you learn to cook?"
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Frank D. in Montreal
>Hey Ed,
That's a good one! I'll have to remember it. I'm always looking gor a "legitimate" excuse to leave tools lying around the house. My latest: a block plane near the wood stove which I use to make shavings to start a fire.
Thanks for the idea. A mitre saw to cut French bread might be nice in the kitchen too...a paring chisel for carrot rings...
pumpkin carving
bill tindall
>.....and saber saw blades stuck in a block of wood make great pumpkin carving tools. Anyone slice Kraut with a #7 upside down?
PS my meat saws hang in the broom closet.
Chocolate shaving via...
Scott Burr Ben Lomond,CA
>a spoke shave. I will admit the LN does a better job than the LV versions, chocolate likes a small mouthed shave.
Let us not forget parm. cheese thru the microplane too. Good eats...
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Kevin French, Antrim, NH
>If you go to a Deli and order slice meat what do they do?
They cut it with a sliding ELECTRIC SAW, tell'm you're a GALOOT,
Was the sausage frozen?
Don Thompson - Cutler Ridge, Florida
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In the Dishwasher
David Miller from Iowa
>When I moved into my current house 5 years ago, I found the dishwasher didn't work. I never liked using them, I live alone and don't generate a lot of dishes, so I never fixed it. However, it has become a repository for household tools, and the cutlery bins hold screwdrivers and pliers nicely. Hammers and, yes, saws, are strewn in the racks. Although I never sawed food...
Was dating a lady a while back who tried to wash dishes after a meal - she really never got over the shock of opening the disher expecting to put a a plate in. Current LOLM is a bit more mellow, thankfully.
Oh yes, microplanes, great for zest
bill tindall
>No better way to make zest, as well as pizza cheese as you stated. But nothing comes close to a microplane for zest. Just enough rind removed and no bitter underlaying stuff.
No saw in the knife drawer, but...
Luke Herzberg
>...a couple weeks ago when we had forgotten to thaw the econo-size chunk of hamburger and needed a portion of it for dinner, I suggested to my wife that I could just saw it in half. "Ewwww, not with those saws in your shop", she says. Well I spared the good Disston's (obviously never designed for hamburger), but grabbed a newer Stanley, gave it a good rinse and sawed away. Another rinse, a spritz of WD-40, and back to the shop it went.
She actually thought it was a good idea after that, which means I'm just a step away from being able to install that drill press in the dining room. :-)
- Luke
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Don Thompson - Cutler Ridge, Florida
>LOL!
For coring apples?
Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA
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Jonathan Ronnow, Sweden
>hehe... I used the bandsaw, in the living room, to cut a frozen piece of meat... try that =)
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Don Thompson - Cutler Ridge, Florida
>I have thought of doing that, but was turned off by the thought of all those little gobs of meat and bone and fat stuck in all of the nooks and crannies of the bandsaw structure.
In the words of Luke's wife, "Eewwww!"
technique is the key... =*)
Jonathan Ronnow, Sweden
>no no no.... you just have to make sure that you fill it upp with lots of sawdust, like heartwood pine, and make sure the meat is really frozen. Then zum-zummm-zumm, and vacuum out the sawdust with the meat residues in it... and throw the dustbag in the trash =) It really worked great!
Jonathan
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Bill Lowrance, Geneva
>An essential tool for the utensil drawer is a small cheap screwdriver with an ugly plastic handle. Useful for prying lids off, popping staples, punching openings in cartons or tubes, scraping into corners, whatever -- anything but driving screws. No temptation for you to use it for woodworking, and no need for anyone to use your good screwdrivers for prying, punching, or scraping. And it spares scissor- and knife-points besides.
Excellent point Bill.
Bob Hackett
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