"Felice" > wrote in message
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> "Nancy Young" > wrote in message
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>> I have a meat pounding ... disc? and I start in the middle and slide
>> out to the edges.
>> Nice to hear you have a horkin big mallet.
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>> nanc
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> I'm still using a 3x9x1 unpainted wooden building block from a 50-year-old
> Creative Playthings children's set. It's my favorite of the kitchen tools
> that were never designed as kitchen tools.

Pounding meat (any kind of meat) ruins it, breaks the cells and all the
moisture cooks out... whenever you see someone using a meat mallet on foodtv
it's because they are incapable of using a knife to makes thin cutlets.

> I also use wax paper. Does anyone else, anywhere, still use wax paper?
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> Felice

I use waxed paper sheets to separate burgers for the freezer. I also prefer
waxed paper to parchment when lining a pan for pineapple upside down cake.
Only Cut-Rite will do, all the others are inferior/wimpy.