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Default Is there a way to slice meat thinly as luncheon meat at home?

On Wed, 22 Apr 2015 03:58:14 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

>
>"Danny D." > wrote in message
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>> Julie Bove wrote, on Tue, 21 Apr 2015 23:25:40 -0700:
>>
>>> You can buy a slicer for home use but they're not cheap.

>>
>> Basically I want the least expensive *usable* meat slicer I can get
>> (even better if it's a tool that I already have, such as a dremel tool,
>> or a grinder motor, or a sawszall, etc.).
>>
>> I should note that I googled the deli-style slicers, which run the gamut
>> in cost from about just over a hundred dollars to over a thousand dollars.
>> http://tinyurl.com/pm84rwo
>>
>> With that kind of price range, there are going to be a *lot* of decisions
>> and tradeoffs that have to be made at the lower end.
>>
>> If I simply by a $2,000 meat slicer, I'm sure I'll be happy with it; but,
>> to get one for less than a hundred will take the advice of others who have
>> actual experience in the lower end models.
>>
>> Questions will arise such as blade material and type, diameter, motor
>> power,
>> etc., that I don't even know to ask yet.
>>
>> Only someone who is either happy or unhappy with the inexpensive slicers
>> will
>> be able to advise me which way to go, or not to go, I would think.
>>
>> Here's an example of a relatively inexpensive slicer, but I don't know if
>> its any good:
>> http://www.amazon.com/Continental-PS.../dp/B00196VYY0
>> http://www.amazon.com/Best-Choice-Pr.../dp/B008BTIMXE
>>
>> But maybe there is a fitting for my radial arm saw, or for my circular
>> saw?

>
>Since that is Amazon, I would pay heed to the reviews there. I don't have a
>slicer. I don't have room to store one.


Those are not professional quality slicers, they don't even qualify
for newbie status... those are Toy's R Us slicers.