broder@magic.DEC.COM (Andrei Broder) (03/05/86)
I am curious to know what unusual tools you use in your kitchen. I'll start with some examples from my current collection: -- A long-nose plier - excellent for picking small fish bones from fish fillets and the tendon in chicken breasts. -- A large vise-grip (sp?) plier - for breaking hard nuts without breaking the kernel. -- A modified cheapo antifreeze densitometer for measuring the density of sorbets. Thanks, Andrei
strickln@ihlpa.UUCP (Stricklen) (03/07/86)
> > I am curious to know what unusual tools you use in your kitchen. Can't think of anything I use which is out of the ordinary, but I always got a kick out of watching Julia Child whip out an acetylene torch to brown meringues. Steve Stricklen AT&T Bell Laboratories ihnp4!ihlpa!strickln
mogul@Shasta.ARPA (Jeff Mogul) (03/08/86)
> I am curious to know what unusual tools you use in your kitchen.
I have a bristle of street-cleaner brush that I use (once a year) for
doing detail work on pumpkins that I'm carving. It's about 10 cm
long, 3.5 mm wide, 0.5 mm thick, and one end is nicely sharpened
(probably from being brushed at an angle against concrete.) It's
nice and stiff, and I can cut tiny holes with it that I could never
cut using a knife. Don't carve a pumpkin without one!
You can pick these up near the side of a street that has been
swept by a larger street-cleaner. I've been told that they are
excellent stock for making your own lock-picks; I wouldn't know.vrsyrotiuk@watdaisy.UUCP (Violet Syrotiuk) (03/10/86)
I started using a finger-nail brush to clean my grater. Works grate-r! -- Violet R. Syrotiuk vrsyrotiuk@watdaisy.uucp CS Department vrsyrotiuk%watdaisy@waterloo.csnet U. of Waterloo vrsyrotiuk%watdaisy%waterloo.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa
rjw@ptsfc.UUCP (Rod Williams) (03/10/86)
Well I don't use it for cooking, but...
o a thin artist's paintbrush to clean out the bottom of my
long, slender champagne flutes.
Living well *is* the best revenge. :-)
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pacific bell | san ramon | californiapumphrey@ttidcb.UUCP (Larry Pumphrey) (03/12/86)
My favorite strange tool is a water-pistol to control flameups on the Bar-B-Q. (No anti-gun flames, this is really an anti-flame gun :-)) - Larry
brian@sdcsvax.UUCP (Brian Kantor) (03/15/86)
Expires: Followup-To: Keywords: Other strange tools: I've never found anything quite so suitable for slobbering on the barbecue sauce as a wide nylon paintbrush. And its really cheap and easy to clean. I use a pair of visegrips to pull bones out of roasts - all you have to do is wrap the roast in a towel so you have a good grip on it, grab the bone with the visegrips and twist until the bone comes loose and pull. Hmm. What else? Oh yeah, an old scrim off a movie light makes a real nice splatter-preventer for frypans, or a cake cooler (scrims are fine wire meshes in hoops used to cut the brightness of high-power movie lights. When they get ripped badly enough they're not real useful.) I used to have a pair of welder's gloves that were absolutely perfect for reaching into the barbecue and laying out the coals exactly in the way that I wanted them. A note: using a water pistol to control flareups on a gas barbecue is a no-no for two reasons: 1) it thermally shocks the volcanic rock, which tends to break into little bits or flakes off and fall into the burner - either way you get to replace the lava rock much more often, and 2) the blasts of steam generated are real corrosive in that atmosphere and eat the life out of the burner, which is kinda expensive to replace. Brian Kantor UC San Diego decvax\ brian@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu ihnp4 >--- sdcsvax --- brian ucbvax/ Kantor@Nosc "There is more harmony in films than in life." - Francois Truffaut
al@psivax.UUCP (Al Schwartz) (03/15/86)
In article <713@ttidcb.UUCP> pumphrey@ttidcb.UUCP (Larry Pumphrey) writes: > > My favorite strange tool is a water-pistol to control flameups on the > Bar-B-Q. (No anti-gun flames, this is really an anti-flame gun :-)) I use one of these too. Try adding a some "Liquid Smoke" to your water supply bottle you use to fill it. This really increases the smokey flavor, especially if you have a gas BBQ. The "Liquid Smoke" usually comes in a bottle that is the same shape as steak sauce and is sold in the section of the store with the BBQ sauces. -- Al Schwartz Pacesetter Systems, Inc., Sylmar, CA, USA UUCP: {sdcrdcf|ttdica|group3|scgvaxd|nrcvax|mc0|bellcore|logico|rdlvax|ihnp4}! psivax!al ARPA: ttidca!psivax!al@rand-unix.arpa