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Sep. 4th, 2020 08:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynI make herbed panko-crusted chicken cutlets on a fairly regular basis, and occasionally pork chops in lowfat milk gravy. Both recipes involve reducing the thickness of the meat in question, or sometimes just evening it out. I've been using the mallet/tenderizer that came with my original Boatloads Of Tools For A Stupid Cheap Price purchase that I made years ago when I moved out of my parents' house, but it's not always great; it's got a teeny little head that means pounding the entire cutlet or chop to the right thickness takes long enough for the downstairs neighbor to notice.
Cooks Illustrated had a review recently of meat pounders. Some were in mallet format, some were this weird long handled format that looks like it was designed for a cartoon character to pick up and whap someone over the head with, and some were meant for gripping with the handle straight up and down while the head was thumped into the meat like some demented bureaucratic stamp. The stampy-type models did best in their testing, so I went looking for those at places other than Amazon, because I would prefer to avoid using Amazon where possible. The most recommended one, the Norpro Grip EZ Meat Pounder, was sold out most places I look. So I went to see about the second place pounder in their review....
.... and just sort of kept staring at it for a while, because if you had put the photograph in front of me and asked me to guess what it was, the answer would have been fairly NSFW.
The review says the head is reversible and the teethy bits are used for tenderizing meat rather than just pounding it flat but honestly that just makes it more NSFW the longer I look at it.
Cooks Illustrated had a review recently of meat pounders. Some were in mallet format, some were this weird long handled format that looks like it was designed for a cartoon character to pick up and whap someone over the head with, and some were meant for gripping with the handle straight up and down while the head was thumped into the meat like some demented bureaucratic stamp. The stampy-type models did best in their testing, so I went looking for those at places other than Amazon, because I would prefer to avoid using Amazon where possible. The most recommended one, the Norpro Grip EZ Meat Pounder, was sold out most places I look. So I went to see about the second place pounder in their review....
.... and just sort of kept staring at it for a while, because if you had put the photograph in front of me and asked me to guess what it was, the answer would have been fairly NSFW.
The review says the head is reversible and the teethy bits are used for tenderizing meat rather than just pounding it flat but honestly that just makes it more NSFW the longer I look at it.
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Date: 2020-09-05 03:33 pm (UTC)However, you could just use a cast iron frying pan to pound stuff out.
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