On 2013-12-26 18:22:42 +0000, Ophelia said:

> "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))

I had dinner, it tasted good--so I did it right! I found back when I
was laboring at smoking fish that the best way to learn how to whittle
fish is: Do do it many times. As Tennesee Williams instructed young
playwrights: Don't write a play--write plays!