SC - Looking for guidance

[Liam Fisher]

><< what books and equipment does everyone
>  consider to be a "must have" item to use themselves. >>
>
>An apron and a good set of knives.  Oh and lots of dish towels.
>
>Murkial

You only need three knives really, a chef's knife, a boning knife,
and a paring knife.  You may include a carving knife as well.

Include a sharpening steel in that kit as well, when you have to
cut up a few animals worth of meat to feed the masses, they get
a bit dull, and a dull knife just slows you down.

If you don't mind modern conveniences, I would suggest for slicing
veggies and others en masse, either a cheapo mandolin or if you can find a 
rotary slicer/chopper/mixer/grater that is decent and hand cranked leaves 
you independent of site offerings and outlets.

I found an old hand cranked meat grinder a few months ago that WASN'T a 
table clamp model, but rather a legged version with heavy rubber feet.  I 
have to find my way back to the store and pick it up because it would be 
invaluable for doing sausages (unless you like being a masochist and using a 
stuffing funnel and plunger) because my fittings for my other grinder will 
fit it as well.  Just a dream, but I like gadgets to make things go 
smoother.

But then again there is something to doing an entirely hand-chopped 
mince-meat dish...


Cadoc MacDairi
(who is putting in his intermittent $.02 because work keeps eating
his brain)
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"I feel the air rise up in me
Kneel down in prayer the stone of years
I wonder how well you can see
Inside my shell I wait and bleed..."

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