The Joneses > wrote in
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> LaUna wrote:
>
>> This may be old to some of you but I've never seen it posted, so here
>> goes.
>>
>> When I was watching the Good Eats man, Alton Brown?, he stuck a
>> mushroom in an old-fashioned egg slicer and sliced it just as pretty
>> as you pleased. Pretty wonderful, huh?
>>
>> Wait, that's not all. For no extra charge, you get (my idea), sliced
>> strawberries!! I sliced two pints of strawberries in no time at all.
>> Don't let the giant ones fool you, they too, will slice.
>>
>> Warning!! After you have sliced two pints of strawberries, you will
>> have strawberry spit all over the counter, backsplash, window and
>> your clothes. So, do this IN THE SINK not on the counter. Actually,
>> the slices are so prefect that the clean-up was worth it.
>>
>> What next? Grapes? Bananas? Maybe even eggs? Certainly mushrooms,
>> olives?
>>
>> What else???
>
> Actually, I'm planning to use my egg slicer to slice cooked beets for
> pickled beets.
> Edrena.

That works great. I've done that several times. Grapes, however, will
squish and just make a mess.

I also have a "butter slicer" that takes a standard 1/4 lb. "stick" of
butter. I use that for slicing bananas.

Wayne