[Sca-cooks] turkey and radial saws

[Elaine Koogler]

Sounds like a reasonable use of a piece of equipment that had previously been
unloved and unused!  I congratulate you on your inventiveness!!!

Kiri

Maggie MacDonald wrote:

> At 11:04 PM 8/26/01 -0500,Stefan li Rous said something like:
> >Back on August 10, Maggie said:
> > > Oooookay. You and me gotta hook up someday, and I'll tell you about my
> > > radial arm saw and frozen turkeys.
> >
> >Okay, please tell. After all, with this list of cooks who jump into
> >hot convection ovens, orange slugs, people who keep complete libraries
> >in their car trunks and such, you've got to stand out somehow. :-)
> >
> >--
> >THLord  Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
> >Mark S. Harris             Austin, Texas         stefan at texas.net
>
> It's quite easy to explain. Around Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter you
> can buy turkey at dirt cheap prices.  Usually I ask the butcher to quarter
> the turkey for me, and freeze it wrapped separately.
>
> For whatever the reason, when I purchased this particular turkey, I didn't
> get it quartered. I was also remarkably short on patience and temper that
> day, and I didn't WANT to deal with a whole turkey. I stood there holding
> this frozen 20lb+ beauty, staring at it, ... and my eyes wandered across
> the garage, and LO! There was the husband's radial arm saw. Ya know,
> they're not far different from the band saws that butchers use.  So ..
> bzzzzzzzzt and bzzzzzzzzt ... quartered turkey (I had to wrap it in a towel
> and slam it against the concrete floor to get that metal clip around the
> legs to snap).
>
> The only part that went afowl (pun intended) were the little waste bits
> that got flung across the garage against the wall. I kinda forgot about
> that bit, but remembered quite well a couple days later when the garage
> turned into A Bad Place To Visit.
>
> Hey, the spouse hasn't touched that saw in over 10 years. So, what the
> heck? As long as I clean up my mess, who's to know?
>
> Regards,
> Maggie MacD.
>
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