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in article , PENMART01 at
wrote on 12/20/03 3:22 PM:

> Best tool for properly dispatching spuds for latkes
> is one of those old fashioned "Safety Graters", looks like a rectangular
> tennis
> raquette... or if in a hurry or need to make tons, then put spuds through a
> meat grinder...

I found one of these at a second hand shop and tried to make latkes with it
last year, down in Florida where I spent Thanksgiving and Chanukah. Tedium
city!!!

I did ONE potato, we were making enough for 10 adults and 2
kids.....couldn't deal. Too slow too tedious. Friend didn't have a grinder
or a food processor, but she did have a "mouli", a sort of hand powered
rotary shredder type of thing. It wasn't as easy as my fine-shredding disk
for my Cuisinart, but it was a LOT easier than that tennis racket thing!

I mixed up enough for half a dozen latkes tonight in about 3 minutes.
(Including washing and peeling the 3 small potatoes.) And the fine shred
disk makes them exactly the texture I like.