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ventaThings I learned last night: do not, on any account, attempt to make fresh breadcrumbs in a motor-driven meat grinder.
No good will come of it.
No good will come of it.
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Date: 2012-10-09 09:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-09 09:56 am (UTC)What happened was that some breadcrumbs came out the end (woo!) and then the motor started making a sullen growling noise and clearly not actually turning round (boo!).
What had happened internally is that fresh bread is much more compressible than meat. All the bread I'd fed into the grinder had become very compressed against the screen at the end, and completely stuck the works solid. I managed to wrench the screen out of the grinder with pliers, and then spent half an hour or so with a kitchen knife slowly chipping away at the really quite surprisingly solid substance my ground bread had turned into until I could finally free everything up.
On the plus side the grinder is made of extremely solid metal and hasn't sustained any damage, as far as I can tell.
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Date: 2012-10-09 10:16 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-10-09 10:50 am (UTC)Me too!
The mincer comes with three different screens, with tiny holes, middley holes and large holes. I used the middle one, which may have been a poor choice - but I'm a bit reluctant to experiment with the large one, now!
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Date: 2012-10-09 02:08 pm (UTC)If not, add another item to the list - even the historians on the Wartime Farm (or whatever it was called) TV programme (same folks as Victorian Farm etc) couldn't believe their eyes when they tried it...
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Date: 2012-10-09 02:15 pm (UTC)[*] Though, presumably, not palatable.
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Date: 2012-10-09 10:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-09 10:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-09 09:56 am (UTC)That's assuming that your breadcrumbs didn't turn out red and that you still have fingers. In which case, no snork. Meat-grinders have a vocation.
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Date: 2012-10-09 10:00 am (UTC)Meat-grinders have a vocation.
Mine is clearly trying to escape its own stereotype, as it is enthusiastically claiming it will mince up nuts too. I haven't tried it out yet.
I'm rather hoping it'll mash up beans for me as well (I don't own a food processor), but sooner or later I think I'll have to pacify it with some chicken.
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Date: 2012-10-09 10:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-09 10:23 am (UTC)I have toyed with the idea of getting a mini one, but wasn't sure if it'd be big enough to be useful. I'm currently working out how many of the food process-y things I want to do I can realistically do with devices I already own.
(In the instance of the beans you can mash them with a fork. If you have a lot of spare time and wrists of steel. Which I don't.)
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Date: 2012-10-09 02:04 pm (UTC)Come to think of it, now that {gulp} my cooking days are mostly over, if you'd like to inherit a food processor, I have one that works just fine that I'm no longer likely to use. I'll post it to you if you like or you can collect it in person.
PS not for the kitchen you have now, from what you say. But maybe in future.
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Date: 2012-10-09 02:22 pm (UTC)I am a dreadful sucker for kitchen gadgets, actually. I have to give myself a good talking-to every so often when some single-use item pops up and flaunts itself and sounds so indispensable. I fix it with a Paddington-like stare and it usually concedes that, actually, I seem to be doing just fine without it :)
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Date: 2012-10-10 07:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-10 09:51 am (UTC)My current blender appears to have too much airspace and just bounces bread crusts about. Which is pretty and frolicsome, but ultimately not that useful.
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Date: 2012-10-10 10:09 am (UTC)(Unless your freezer's too small to store such things, which I guess it might be given the above comment…)
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Date: 2012-10-10 10:18 am (UTC)I've tried things like that, and what happens is I end up with a blender full of stationary bread while the bit immediately round the blades becomes crumbs. The blades then rotate pointlessly in the space they've created.
Obviously I can squash the contents down and repeat, pausing every so often to excavate the crumbs, but to be honest, it's pretty much more faff than doing it any other way.
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Date: 2012-10-09 11:11 am (UTC)And will your last words begin 'Come all ye'?
(Smug points available for the reference)
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Date: 2012-10-09 11:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-10-09 11:54 am (UTC)(And keep away from navigable waterways)
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