Re: Things that get used in the kitchen....

AC said:

cathyxyz said:

... that were never intended for kitchen use by the manufacturer.

I was just reading the thread on how to keep an open bag of potato chips
fresh and I had to laugh. We use fold back clips - originally intended
for keeping wads of paper together!

Any other things you can think of?

those microplanes that everyone raves about and uses for zesting citrus and
grating things is actually a wood working tool.

Speaking of which, I bought a pair of stainless steel sheet metal snips,
ideal for cutting up a bird. We use clothes pins to close chip and
cereal bags, cheap, ready to hand, does the job and, if one breaks, you
toss it and go into the laundry room and get another.

George

On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:17:44 -0500, "AC" <[email hidden]> rummaged
among random neurons and opined:

Quoted message said:

those microplanes that everyone raves about and uses for zesting citrus and
grating things is actually a wood working tool.

And those microplaners absolutely rock. I love using it for company
dinners for, say, spaghetti and meat sauce. Great fun and soooo much
easier than the rotary shredders. Kudos to the guy who developed it
*and* to the guy who first shredded cheese with it!

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd..interchange "guy" with "woman"
AAC(F)BV66.0748.CA

--
"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."

-- Duncan Hines

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