Arri London said...

>
>
> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>
>> Oh pshaw, on Sun 11 Nov 2007 05:55:49p, Arri London meant to say...
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > sf wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:17:42 -0500, "Felice" >
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >One of my kitchen standbys is a child's wooden building block,
>> >> >about a foot long, that I use for pounding cutlets. I
>> >> >"requisitioned" it one day when the children were tads and we were
>> >> >poor. The children are now pushing 50 and I've flattened a lot of
>> >> >cutlets in the intervening years.
>> >>
>> >> I used a plumbers mallet for that until my son grew up and stole it
>> >> from me to use on some handyman type job here at the house.
>> >>
>> > The rubber mallet (covered in cling film) works well too!
>> >
>>
>> When I pound out meat, I put it between sheets of cling film. I don't
>> need to cover the mallet itself.
>>
>> --
>>
> Just habit with me. Any tool that might go out of the kitchen gets
> covered. Except the wood rasp of course. Was using that long before it
> became trendy.


I use an ice-cream scoop with the "trigger ejector" to make equal sized
meatballs.

Andy