[Sca-cooks] Electric knives

[Huette von Ahrens]

Personally, I hate electric knives.  If I had
21 roast beeves to slice, I would have brought
my Krups electric slicer.  It is very compact
and portable.  It folds down to a 3.75" wide by
13" long by 8" high box.  It slices very fast
and very cleanly.  21 roast beeves would take
about 1 to 1.5 hours to slice, depending on
how fast you work and how much the roasts
weighed.

There is one on sale on eBay here:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=20681&item=4348770870&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

I am not sure that it is being sold by Krups
anymore, but I highly recommend it and keep it
with my feast cooking gear as it is so compact
and so efficient.  It does meats, cheeses, breads
etc.  

Huette


--- Phlip <phlip at 99main.com> wrote:

> I'm sending this out to Cooks, as well as
> Chirurgeons, because I'd really
> like some input. I'm already discussing it with
> my mundane friends on
> TheForge, since we're referring to a hand tool
> here.
> 
> Last night, at EK 12th Night, I was helping
> Jaji in the kitchen, and he had
> 21 largish beef roasts that needed slicing.
> Since I'm pretty good at
> carving, I volunteered to do it, and was using
> an electric knife.
> 
> That electric knife was the most ergonomically
> incorrect tool I had ever
> tried to use. Its handle was WAY too big (and I
> have large hands), it was
> designed so that you had a safety button that
> you had to push in, while
> pulling the trigger, which put your hand and
> wrist in a strange position
> anyway, and the angle of the blade was such
> that the rest of your arm was in
> a weird position, to boot.
> 
> I was uncomfortable by the time I finished the
> first roast, I was in pain by
> the time I finished the third roast, and by the
> time I finished the 6th
> roast, I was in so much pain that I couldn't
> continue- and mind you, I have
> a high pain tolerance- and no particular
> difficulties with my wrists.
> 
> I checked with Jaji on the timing, and took a
> break, and, at the suggestion
> of one of the other cooks, borrowed a wrist
> brace and was able to continue,
> and eventually got 18 done- 3 were done by
> other people during the period
> when the kitchen breaker blew, using regular
> knives- thank Heaven for the
> loan of Brandu's knife- it was the only sharp
> one in the kitchen, when I was
> doing 3 of them without power, by candlelight
> ;-)
> 
> Anyway, it occurred to me, that since electric
> knives are so useful when
> you're slicing large quantities of food- we
> were feeding 200- perhaps
> someone out there has a brand of electric knife
> that they'd suggest. There
> HAS to be an effective tool for this purpose-
> what do you guys think?
> 
> Saint Phlip,
> CoD
> 
> "When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a
> hammer."
>  Blacksmith's credo.
> 
>  If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a
> duck, it is probably not a
> cat.
> 
> Never a horse that cain't be rode,
> And never a rider who cain't be throwed....
> 
> 
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