Oh pshaw, on Mon 12 Nov 2007 09:40:15a, Arri London meant to say...

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> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
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>> Oh pshaw, on Sun 11 Nov 2007 05:55:49p, Arri London meant to say...
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>> > sf wrote:
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>> >> On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:17:42 -0500, "Felice" >
>> >> wrote:
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>> >> >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!
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>> When I pound out meat, I put it between sheets of cling film. I don't
>> need to cover the mallet itself.
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> 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.
>

My mallet is dedicated to the kitcheen. I have others that I keep with my
tools. Since I'm the only user (God forbid that David should ever pick up
a tool), there's no confusion. :-)

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Wayne Boatwright

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