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From: brian@sdcsvax.UUCP (Brian Kantor)
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Subject: Re: Strange tools
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Date: Fri, 14-Mar-86 16:04:40 EST
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Other strange tools:

I've never found anything quite so suitable for slobbering on the
barbecue sauce as a wide nylon paintbrush.  And its really cheap and
easy to clean.

I use a pair of visegrips to pull bones out of roasts - all you have to
do is wrap the roast in a towel so you have a good grip on it, grab the
bone with the visegrips and twist until the bone comes loose and pull.

Hmm. What else?  Oh yeah, an old scrim off a movie light makes a real
nice splatter-preventer for frypans, or a cake cooler  (scrims are fine
wire meshes in hoops used to cut the brightness of high-power movie
lights.  When they get ripped badly enough they're not real useful.)

I used to have a pair of welder's gloves that were absolutely perfect
for reaching into the barbecue and laying out the coals exactly in the
way that I wanted them.

A note: using a water pistol to control flareups on a gas barbecue is a
no-no for two reasons: 1) it thermally shocks the volcanic rock, which
tends to break into little bits or flakes off and fall into the burner
- either way you get to replace the lava rock much more often, and 2)
the blasts of steam generated are real corrosive in that atmosphere and
eat the life out of the burner, which is kinda expensive to replace.

	Brian Kantor	UC San Diego

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