On 4/22/2015 8:17 AM, William wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Apr 2015 05:33:37 +0000 (UTC), "Danny D."
> > wrote:
>
>> At a deli, they use a special meat slicer, but, is there something
>> affordable we can use at home to slice luncheon meat thinly?
>> https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8816/1...bf58106a_c.jpg
>>
>> I have my sister and her kids staying with me for a few months (don't
>> ask), and we pack them a lunch every school day, so I picked up big hunks
>> of Costco ham, turkey, and cheese, figuring I'd slice it up for the kids
>> to make sandwiches.
>> https://c4.staticflickr.com/8/7700/1...64c263f4_c.jpg
>>
>> But I can't manually knife the stuff as thinly as they do with the
>> professional rotating blade meat slicers at the supermarket.
>>
>> Is there a shop tool that's common that we can use to slice this meat up
>> thinly? Or do I have to buy an expensive meat slicer (which is probably
>> too expensive to be worthwhile)?
>>
>> Anyone slice their own luncheon meat thinly at home?
>> What tool do you use?
>
> Why not just buy sliced meat? How much meat will you have to slice to
> justify $1,500 for a small Hobart slicer? Do you ever see Deli's using
> the $50 slicers? Shop tools are not generally designed to be FDA
> Approved and meet sanitation standards for processing food. Have you
> ever seen what happens at your grocer's meat department after the
> Butcher's are done with work for the day? Is your kitchen set up to
> properly sanitize the equipment after you're done slicing?
>

I tend to agree with William but, if you must, Williams-Sonoma does sell
electric wheel slicers under the name Chef's Choice, $100 and $300. You
can still buy a lot of sliced meat for those prices but deli meats do
tend to have water injected and have a different texture from
home-cooked stuff.


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Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

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