As I live alone... I buy myself a birthday present. I was drooling over a
mandolin just the other day. But I have that olde "that's too pricey to
justify buying without good reason" guilt of the lower middle class.

So to those who own mandolins how often do you use it and in what recipes?

This way I might just possibly justify buying myself one. As I have filled
most of my storage spaces with cheaper gizmos and don't require another use
2 times a year kitchen tool

On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:44:33 GMT, Mr Libido Incognito >
wrote:

>As I live alone... I buy myself a birthday present. I was drooling over a
>mandolin just the other day. But I have that olde "that's too pricey to
>justify buying without good reason" guilt of the lower middle class.
>
>So to those who own mandolins how often do you use it and in what recipes?
>
>This way I might just possibly justify buying myself one. As I have filled
>most of my storage spaces with cheaper gizmos and don't require another use
>2 times a year kitchen tool

Buy a benriner. I use mine alla time, alla time, I tell ya. I keep
it hanging on the wall, right next to the sink and the area where I do
most of my chopping. My mom later bought me a mandolin (a fairly
inexpensive one, if there is such a thing), and while I like it
because of the greater thickness variability, I use the benriner most
often because it's 'right there' whilst the mandolin is in the
cupboard.

TammyM

Mr Libido Incognito > wrote in
:

> As I live alone... I buy myself a birthday present. I was drooling
> over a mandolin just the other day. But I have that olde "that's too
> pricey to justify buying without good reason" guilt of the lower
> middle class.
>
> So to those who own mandolins how often do you use it and in what
> recipes?
>
> This way I might just possibly justify buying myself one. As I have
> filled most of my storage spaces with cheaper gizmos and don't require
> another use 2 times a year kitchen tool
>




Have a garage sale, get rid of the cheap shit, and buy the mandolin.



You *WANT* it.............. get it.




--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia



We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual
beings having a human experience.

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:44:33 GMT, Mr Libido Incognito >
wrote:

>As I live alone... I buy myself a birthday present. I was drooling over a
>mandolin just the other day. But I have that olde "that's too pricey to
>justify buying without good reason" guilt of the lower middle class.
>
>So to those who own mandolins how often do you use it and in what recipes?
>
>This way I might just possibly justify buying myself one. As I have filled
>most of my storage spaces with cheaper gizmos and don't require another use
>2 times a year kitchen tool

I must admit, I bought myself a mandoline a year or two ago. I
haven't used it that much yet... Mine is the Oxo one... It was about
$70 USD.

There are less expensive mandolines out there, some of them quite
good. Some of the Japanese models are excellent.

Christine

"Mr Libido Incognito" > wrote in message
...
> As I live alone... I buy myself a birthday present. I was drooling over a
> mandolin just the other day. But I have that olde "that's too pricey to
> justify buying without good reason" guilt of the lower middle class.
>
> So to those who own mandolins how often do you use it and in what recipes?
>
> This way I might just possibly justify buying myself one. As I have filled
> most of my storage spaces with cheaper gizmos and don't require another
use
> 2 times a year kitchen tool

Here's a nice one:

http://tinyurl.com/28decn
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
http://cgi.ebay.com/c-1929-Gibson-F-...40090966683QQi
hZ004QQcategoryZ10179QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

"tom" > wrote in
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>
> "Mr Libido Incognito" > wrote in message
> ...
>> As I live alone... I buy myself a birthday present. I was drooling
>> over a mandolin just the other day. But I have that olde "that's too
>> pricey to justify buying without good reason" guilt of the lower
>> middle class.
>>
>> So to those who own mandolins how often do you use it and in what
>> recipes?
>>
>> This way I might just possibly justify buying myself one. As I have
>> filled most of my storage spaces with cheaper gizmos and don't
>> require another
> use
>> 2 times a year kitchen tool
>
> Here's a nice one:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/28decn
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



We can always count on one smartarse dipshit.


You're it "Tom".



--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia



We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual
beings having a human experience.

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

In article >,
says...
> As I live alone... I buy myself a birthday present. I was drooling over a
> mandolin just the other day. But I have that olde "that's too pricey to
> justify buying without good reason" guilt of the lower middle class.
>
> So to those who own mandolins how often do you use it and in what recipes?
>
> This way I might just possibly justify buying myself one. As I have filled
> most of my storage spaces with cheaper gizmos and don't require another use
> 2 times a year kitchen tool
>

Buy a mandoline instead and take up music!

I have a really nice one but use it rarely. Most often - once or twice a
month at most - I use it when I need a lot of really thin but uniform
slices of something, usually potato for chips. I used to use the
julienne blades too but the Cuisineart does a much faster job.

I would not buy it again.

Say, you want a deal on mine <g>?


--
Peter Aitken

"PeterLucas" <inbrissie@home> wrote in message
...
> "tom" > wrote in
> ink.net:
>
> >
> > "Mr Libido Incognito" > wrote in message
> > ...
> >> As I live alone... I buy myself a birthday present. I was drooling
> >> over a mandolin just the other day. But I have that olde "that's too
> >> pricey to justify buying without good reason" guilt of the lower
> >> middle class.
> >>
> >> So to those who own mandolins how often do you use it and in what
> >> recipes?
> >>
> >> This way I might just possibly justify buying myself one. As I have
> >> filled most of my storage spaces with cheaper gizmos and don't
> >> require another
> > use
> >> 2 times a year kitchen tool
> >
> > Here's a nice one:
> >
> > http://tinyurl.com/28decn
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
>
> We can always count on one smartarse dipshit.
>
>
> You're it "Tom".
>
>
>
> --
> Peter Lucas
> Brisbane
> Australia
>
>
>
> We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual
> beings having a human experience.
>
> - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Thank You!!!!

"tom" > wrote in news:Rb_Fh.5676$PL.2928
@newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net:

>
> "PeterLucas" <inbrissie@home> wrote in message
> ...
>> "tom" > wrote in
>> ink.net:
>>
>> >
>> > "Mr Libido Incognito" > wrote in message
>> > ...
>> >> As I live alone... I buy myself a birthday present. I was drooling
>> >> over a mandolin just the other day. But I have that olde "that's
too
>> >> pricey to justify buying without good reason" guilt of the lower
>> >> middle class.
>> >>
>> >> So to those who own mandolins how often do you use it and in what
>> >> recipes?
>> >>
>> >> This way I might just possibly justify buying myself one. As I
have
>> >> filled most of my storage spaces with cheaper gizmos and don't
>> >> require another
>> > use
>> >> 2 times a year kitchen tool
>> >
>> > Here's a nice one:
>> >
>> > http://tinyurl.com/28decn
>> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>>
>>
>> We can always count on one smartarse dipshit.
>>
>>
>> You're it "Tom".
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Peter Lucas
>> Brisbane
>> Australia
>>
>>
>>
>> We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are
spiritual
>> beings having a human experience.
>>
>> - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
>
> Thank You!!!!
>
>
>


You're welcome.




--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia



We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual
beings having a human experience.

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"tom" > wrote in message
ink.net...
>
> "Mr Libido Incognito" > wrote in message
> ...
>> As I live alone... I buy myself a birthday present. I was drooling over
>> a
>> mandolin just the other day. But I have that olde "that's too pricey to
>> justify buying without good reason" guilt of the lower middle class.
>>
>> So to those who own mandolins how often do you use it and in what
>> recipes?
>>
>> This way I might just possibly justify buying myself one. As I have
>> filled
>> most of my storage spaces with cheaper gizmos and don't require another
> use
>> 2 times a year kitchen tool
>
> Here's a nice one:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/28decn
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> http://cgi.ebay.com/c-1929-Gibson-F-...40090966683QQi
> hZ004QQcategoryZ10179QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
>
>
Wrong kind of mandolin

--
Helen
in
FERGUS/HARLINGEN
http://www.mompeagram.homestead.com/index.html

MOMPEAGRAM wrote:
> "tom" > wrote in message
> ink.net...
>>
>> "Mr Libido Incognito" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> As I live alone... I buy myself a birthday present. I was drooling
>>> over a
>>> mandolin just the other day. But I have that olde "that's too
>>> pricey to justify buying without good reason" guilt of the lower
>>> middle class. So to those who own mandolins how often do you use it and
>>> in what
>>> recipes?
>>>
>>> This way I might just possibly justify buying myself one. As I have
>>> filled
>>> most of my storage spaces with cheaper gizmos and don't require
>>> another use 2 times a year kitchen tool
>>
>> Here's a nice one:
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/28decn
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> http://cgi.ebay.com/c-1929-Gibson-F-...40090966683QQi
>> hZ004QQcategoryZ10179QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
>>
>>
> Wrong kind of mandolin

Maybe he's into bluegrass :-)

--
Dave
www.davebbq.com

Mr Libido Incognito wrote:
> As I live alone... I buy myself a birthday present. I was drooling over a
> mandolin just the other day. But I have that olde "that's too pricey to
> justify buying without good reason" guilt of the lower middle class.
>
> So to those who own mandolins how often do you use it and in what recipes?
>

I thought at first you were talking about the musical instrument!

I have a Benriner mandoline that I bought a few years ago at a
Japanese/Korean market. It was under $20 and I have been quite happy
with it. It replaced a plastic gizmo I bought over 35 years ago at the
MA State Fair (aka Eastern States' Expo) which I had been using
successfully. I couldn't justify one of the very expensive ones to myself.

I use it mostly in summer to slice cucumbers, onions, zucchini, and
other firm vegetables for salads, stir fries, or kabobs. Works fine.
And I don't feel either deprived or wasteful.

gloria p

On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:44:33 GMT, Mr Libido Incognito >
rummaged among random neurons and opined:

>As I live alone... I buy myself a birthday present. I was drooling over a
>mandolin just the other day.

<snip>

I have a Matfer mandoline that I bought several years ago. I confess
that I don't use it often, but when I *do* use it, it's wonderful.
Take potatoes au gratin: the slices are beautifully uniform and thin
and take no time at all to process. Need a julienned veggie? Zip,
zip, zip.Ditto waffled slices.

One word of warning: you have to really watch what you're doing. You
can slice a finger faster than you can say "Aaaauuuggghhhhh!!!" I do
not mix wine with my mandoline!

Terry Pulliam Burd

--
"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."

-- Duncan Hines

To reply, replace "spaminator" with "cox"

On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 19:42:31 -0800, Terry Pulliam Burd
> wrote:
<snip>

>One word of warning: you have to really watch what you're doing. You
>can slice a finger faster than you can say "Aaaauuuggghhhhh!!!" I do
>not mix wine with my mandoline!

This is solid advice. Heed it. When KayH found out I had a rinky
dink guard with my Benriner, she went out and bought me a decent one.
USE THE GUARD. The one time I didn't, I sliced off 1/2" of
fingernail. Had it not been for the nail....

TammyM, with 10 intact digits

On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:44:33 GMT, Mr Libido Incognito >
wrote:

>As I live alone... I buy myself a birthday present. I was drooling over a
>mandolin just the other day. But I have that olde "that's too pricey to
>justify buying without good reason" guilt of the lower middle class.
>
>So to those who own mandolins how often do you use it and in what recipes?
>
>This way I might just possibly justify buying myself one. As I have filled
>most of my storage spaces with cheaper gizmos and don't require another use
>2 times a year kitchen tool

I bought a mandoline years ago when I saw it on sale. I use my food
processor for that sort of thing. Grating (to me) is like kneading
bread - it's a necessary evil that's done faster in the FP When I
want slices, it's the FP for "thicker" and a hand held (probably
called a truffle slicer - that cost me next to nothing) for thinner.
I have a dedicated french fry cutter for those times I want absolutely
perfect FF, but I still end up cutting them by hand.

The mandoline and the FF cutter reside in their boxes in a cabinet.
The slicer is in my kitchen tool drawer and the FP is out on the
counter. Guess which items are used more.

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On 3/2/07 7:42 PM, in article ,
"Terry Pulliam Burd" <ADDRESS> wrote:

> One word of warning: you have to really watch what you're doing. You
> can slice a finger faster than you can say "Aaaauuuggghhhhh!!!" I do
> not mix wine with my mandoline!
>
> Terry Pulliam Burd

I cut the whole tip of my finger off two summers ago with a mandoline; talk
about blood everywhere! Use the guard every time, all the time. The ER
nurse wondered how I managed to do such a thing with a mandolin. <g>

Blessings,
Ann