When we sold our business, my partner and I each took a couple of items as remembrances. She took a soup pot and something else I can’t remember. I took two things:
A board from our screen door with our business name. It now hangs in my garage.
Our tomato corer. I had never seen one before and it became my favorite tool. It made slicing tomatoes so much easier and less wasteful. When you go through several cases of tomatoes in a week, every little bit of efficiency helps. I still use it all the time.
It would be better unless you know how to carve / slice an Iberian Ham, to purchase a 1/4 or 1/ 2 kilo and enjoy it …
An entire Iberian Ham especially from Jabugo or Dehesa, Badajoz, are quite costly even if exported from Spain … ! Photo by: Dear Friend of many years of our family, is a wholesaler, retailer and CORTADOR (ham carver) …
I use my strawberry huller to pluck residual feathers from poultry. (Kosher poultry has some feathers because they cannot treat it in such a way as to remove all the feathers.)
That’s a good advice from @Barca to buy smaller quantity and you can store in fridge. The ham leg has a lot of hard skin, fat and bone, it’s rather expensive unless you can finish it in a timely manner. To be able to slice thinly and regularly is quite an art. H sliced them rather well, but I liked them really thin, but he loved them thicker. And the thickness change in taste.
We also use chopsticks as signifiers: if a pan, dish, or whatever that is sitting on the counter has a chopstick in it, it has been washed and is clean, else it’s still dirty.
Good one! That reminds me; toothpicks identity rare meat. No toothpicks means well-done. I’m not sure why or when I bought toothpicks but I seem to have an endless supply.
Those alligator clips that you buy at office supply. We use them to keep all of our plastic non-recloseable bags closed. Cereal. Chips. Use them daily.
Actually, I think you mean bulldog clips; alligator clips are shaped like alligator heads, have tiny teeth, and are used mostly in electrical/electronic connections. We also use bulldog clips, though I have a few extra-wide bag clips as well.
We have stopped buying some stuff at Costco. At our age (70+) some is too heavy (e.g., Kirkland detergent in a pail), but some could end up outlasting us (e.g., various pain killers).
