On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 03:06:44 GMT, Mark Thorson >
wrote:

>What do you use a press like this for?
>
>(Note that this link is to an eBay auction that has ended,
>it's not some lame attempt to scare up bidders for it.)
>
>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...568988 1&rd=1
>
>Yeah, sure you can press juice out of half an orange
>with it, but what can you do with it that involves meat?

I don't know about that one specifically, but in our food science labs
we used a Carver press (a *serious* hydraulic press) for meat to
compare various cooking methods with regard to juciness. In other
words, prepare the meat in different ways, cut off a piece, weigh it,
put it between absorbant material, press it in the machine, then weigh
the resulting meat "wafer" afterwards to see how much juice was
extracted.

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