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I've tried sharpening knives and still I'm not doing the right job.. have fam that owns a grocery store, but their meat selection isn't the best.. go to them for produce its in a mexican area on the south side of Chi...
How about marinade recipes?? I personally just olive oil and salt and pepper maybe a lil garlic in between the layers of fat.. and then I let it sit out for a bit and pan sear em and then broil it.. don't grill em cuz its snowing here... but I get good cuts of meat from Cost Co
I've tried sharpening knives and still I'm not doing the right job.. have fam that owns a grocery store, but their meat selection isn't the best.. go to them for produce its in a mexican area on the south side of Chi...
How about marinade recipes?? I personally just olive oil and salt and pepper maybe a lil garlic in between the layers of fat.. and then I let it sit out for a bit and pan sear em and then broil it.. don't grill em cuz its snowing here... but I get good cuts of meat from Cost Co
If your serious,buy yourself a slicer (knife) and a good filet/boning knife, thats all you need to fabricate meat. You could also buy a course+fine stone and a honer. Use the slicer on bigger cut's such as a whole tenderloin or ribeye and use smooth long sawing motions as to not "hack" up the meat. You also can wet your blade every couple of cuts, this helps the knife draw threw the meat nice and clean.
get an electric knife sharpener like one of these
I have an older model 110 that I bought years ago and it still makes my knives razor sharp.
Oh, yes. Anyway, it's time to bone the chicken. Now, for this, you need a very sharp knife. You can't do nothing without a sharp knife! [ holds chicken and cuts ] Now, you place the chicken on its stomach, and cut along the backbone to the pug nose like so.. [ drops knife ] crap! Oh! Oh, now I've done it - I've cut the dickens out of my finger. Well, I'm glad, in a way, this has happened.. [ blood squirts onto the chicken ] We have never really discussed what to do. First, we must stop the bleeding. [ holds her apron over her hand ] The best way is to put pressure on the apron, like so.. [ blood keeps sqirting all over the kitchen ] Now, you want to raise your hand above your head so the blood doesn't pump all the way up. [ blood continues to squirt ] Well, the apron doesn't seem to be working, so I recommend natural coagulants, such as chicken liver.. [ picks up the chicken liver ] Remember not to throw away the liver! [ blood squirts over the chicken liver ] Oh, God, it's throbbing! Well, a tourniquet can be made, using a chicken bone.. [ wraps towl and chicken bone around her hand ] Find a pressure point between the heart and the wound - in this case, the wrist - and cut off the blood. This is a last resort, however, because you could lose your hand if you tighten it too much! [ blood keeps squirting ] If you're too woozy to tie the tourniquet, you might call Emergency Help - there's not much time left.. [ hobbles towards the phone on back wall and picks it up ] Now, every kitchen phone should have the Emergency number written on it somewhere.. [ looks at phone ] Uh-oh! This one doesn't! 9-1-1! [ tries to dial the number, but can't ] Oh, this phone is a prop, it doesn't work! [ drops the phone, becoming woozy ] That's a shame, because I'm remembering a time when I was a little girl and I.. had a dog named Admiral.. I used to give him liver.. and my mother gave me a doll.. [ starts tipping from side to side ] Why are you all spinning..? Uh.. I think I'm going to go to sleep now.. bon appetit.. [ falls headfirst onto the counter, then jumps up one last time ] Save the liver! [ falls back onto the counter and twitches before dying ]
I used to manage a grocery store that was in a rich part of town but didn't do much volume. We would mark down Ribeyes, TBones, Filets and they still wouldn't sell. I would then buy them for a dollar a pack the day after they went out of date. I used to eat filets and a bag of potato chips at least twice a week. That was the good old days.
