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The high cost of sundries
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 20:11
by ssorllih
I was looking at the price of meat hooks and trying to find a way to beat the cost. This is what I have come up with:
Yard sale stainless steel fork and five minutes with some handtools.
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 23:33
by Big Guy
Wow I thought you had just read a book by Uri Geller
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 08:01
by redzed
Geez Ross, does your wife know what you are doing to her grandmother's flatware?
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 14:30
by ssorllih
And sterling at that.
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 20:51
by Cabonaia
I think my doctor has one of those.
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 21:31
by ssorllih
It does look a lot like a retractor.
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 22:06
by Pete
redzed wrote:Geez Ross, does your wife know what you are doing to her grandmother's flatware?
I see this ending badly...............
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 22:26
by ssorllih
Actually it is working out quite well. She offered me three other odd pieces without jabbing them into my back.
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 22:39
by Cabonaia
All joking aside, it's a pretty nifty gizmo. I have bought 2 bacon racks, and I LOST them! Will probably be bending some forks Ross style pretty soon.
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2012 23:09
by ssorllih
Small details, bend the tines before you spread them, sharpen them with a file, the center of the hook should be over the center of the tines.
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 01:55
by snagman
Cabonaia wrote:2 bacon racks, and I LOST them
Mate, I HAVE to know, how do you lose bacon racks ?
Found no reference in Mariansky's book about this phenomenon.
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 02:52
by redzed
snagman wrote:Cabonaia wrote:2 bacon racks, and I LOST them
Mate, I HAVE to know, how do you lose bacon racks ?
Found no reference in Mariansky's book about this phenomenon.
Mate, I totally sympathize with Cabo. Many of my essentials simply "disappear" on a regular basis. Only trained gerontologists can properly explain this common phenomenon.
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 03:12
by Cabonaia
redzed wrote: Only trained gerontologists can properly explain this common phenomenon.
Ha ha ha! How indeed does one lose bacon racks????
Redzed, I'm afraid you've nailed it.
Meanwhile, I'm searching for the right medicine to help me remember. (Grandpa, how come you always fall down when you drink your medicine??)
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 03:41
by ssorllih
They go to the same place as socks in the laundry.
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 04:36
by Chuckwagon
Hey Ross,
I was lookin` over that nasty lookin` meat hook you contrived and then it dawned on me... that must be the precise tool that my doctor used on my last hemorrhoidectomy.
