"gtr" > wrote in message news:2013122616202796173-xxx@yyyzzz...
> 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!

Absolutely spot on!!!!!

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!

Amen) When you are satisfied you are an expert on cutting up rabbits, you
must make a vid of it and put it on youtube ) It could help someone else!
I am no expert either, but hubby is and he does any butchery we need from
live animal to pieces ready to cook, but then he is a hunter



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