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>On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 03:06:44 GMT, Mark Thorson >
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>>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.)
>>
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>>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...&item=61056898
81&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?
>
>Well, there are duck presses designed to press all the juices out of a
>duck carcass. Googling on "meat press" also turned up something about
>making 'lunchmeat' sorts of compressed ingredients.

'Zactly... those contraptions were used to compress various potted meats into
cakes, often with dried fruit and nuts, an early method of preparing food for
traveling.

http://www.castinstyle.co.uk/product.php/110/0/


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