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Default Is there a way to slice meat thinly as luncheon meat at home?


"Danny D." > wrote in message
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> Julie Bove wrote, on Tue, 21 Apr 2015 23:25:40 -0700:
>
>> You can buy a slicer for home use but they're not cheap.

>
> Basically I want the least expensive *usable* meat slicer I can get
> (even better if it's a tool that I already have, such as a dremel tool,
> or a grinder motor, or a sawszall, etc.).
>
> I should note that I googled the deli-style slicers, which run the gamut
> in cost from about just over a hundred dollars to over a thousand dollars.
> http://tinyurl.com/pm84rwo
>
> With that kind of price range, there are going to be a *lot* of decisions
> and tradeoffs that have to be made at the lower end.
>
> If I simply by a $2,000 meat slicer, I'm sure I'll be happy with it; but,
> to get one for less than a hundred will take the advice of others who have
> actual experience in the lower end models.
>
> Questions will arise such as blade material and type, diameter, motor
> power,
> etc., that I don't even know to ask yet.
>
> Only someone who is either happy or unhappy with the inexpensive slicers
> will
> be able to advise me which way to go, or not to go, I would think.
>
> Here's an example of a relatively inexpensive slicer, but I don't know if
> its any good:
> http://www.amazon.com/Continental-PS.../dp/B00196VYY0
> http://www.amazon.com/Best-Choice-Pr.../dp/B008BTIMXE
>
> But maybe there is a fitting for my radial arm saw, or for my circular
> saw?


Since that is Amazon, I would pay heed to the reviews there. I don't have a
slicer. I don't have room to store one.