"gtr" > wrote in message news:2013122610180939948-xxx@yyyzzz...
> On 2013-12-26 10:51:14 +0000, Ophelia said:
>
>>> I couldn't get through the back[bone], where he says "I oughta have a
>>> cleaver for this". I don't have a cleaver either so I took an unused
>>> chef's knife did my best then used a rubber mallet on the back of the
>>> knife to get through the last of it. Crude but operable.
>>
>> It worked for you ok didn't it? You got the joints you wanted, so well
>> done
>
> Yeah, it did. But honestly using a rubber mallet and a knife to make it
> through a butchering job--it just seems so amateurish.

If you want to be a butcher you need to study for it) Until then, you use
what you have, the same as the rest of us)

Trust me, you did good))



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