"OmManiPadmeOmelet" > wrote in message
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> "Ophelia" > wrote:
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>> "Dan Abel" > wrote in message
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>> > In article >,
>> > OmManiPadmeOmelet > wrote:
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>> >> Anyone else?
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>> > OK, so we did the shop tools for cooking and medicine. How about
>> > medical stuff? My father had a whole set of hypodermics that he used
>> > for oiling hard to reach places. Some people use them in the kitchen
>> > for injecting brine and flavored stuff into meat before cooking.
>>
>> Yes indeed I use a large hypodermic syringe. It was very difficult to
>> get though. I tried several pharmacists but they wouldn't give me one
>> unless I had a dirty needle to hand in <???>
>>
>> Eventually I got one when I was being treated for a serious infection
>> last year. Because I was on IV antibiotics for several months, I had a
>> Hickman line inserted and was taught to do it myself at home. Suddenly
>> from not being trusted with a single one, I was given boxes of the
>> things)
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> I use a massive 12 guage needle for blowing out emu eggs.
> It was originally a bone marrow aspiration needle. Our Path' cleaned out
> his office and was throwing them away! They are perfect attached to
> tubing from an aquarium pump. Work on Ostrich and Rhea eggs too.
> --
> Om.
>
> "My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack
> Nicholson


I've used a 12 gauge needle for 'injecting' marinade into a beef roast (we
usually use them for emergency transtracheal airways and chest
decompressions...they're pretty big)

Maria