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Default Quick Method to Defrost Frozen Foods

"zxcvbob" > wrote in message
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> With a saw. Large packages of frozen vegetables can be hacked apart with
> a meat cleaver.
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Tool note: A professional chef I know shares my concern about cleavers &
fingers. So, for some work, he rests the cleaver on the food (like a brick
of frozen spinach), and whacks the top of the cleaver with a wooden mallet,
available at any decent hardware store. Cleaver is happy, fingers are happy,
and you can cut more precisely.