Re: How to get a perfect Skin

Philip wrote:
"Peter H.M.Brooks" <peter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:lc-dnT7mKobPak7bnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx
Peter Ashby wrote:
Peter Brooks <Peter.H.M.Brooks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Aug 26, 2:34 pm, Stella <rajeshsharma7...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
How to get a perfect Skin

I thought that the important thing was to gas or poison the animal -
and then have a very sharp knife.

It also needs a fair bit of practice. I've tried the trick where you
bone a chicken without breaking the skin and, though I managed it, it
wasn't a very pretty sight.
Last time I tried to bone a leg of lamb I nearly cut my left index
finger off. That wasn't a pretty sight either ;-)

You can get steel gauntlets made from chain mail at chef's supply shops. I'd love to have a pair, but, sadly, to date, I've only seen them provided for the left hand. I saw a fellow at the Cardiff fish market using one first and thought them a brilliant idea.

Left-handed shops ought to supply them for the right hand.

If you're right handed, though, you can get one and never be in danger when boning a piece of meat or even fiddling in the mower or clearing one of those rubbish grinders in sinks. When I last looked they were about seventy quid each, so they're probably double that now.

Can you not just turn a left hand chain mail glove inside out to wear it on your right hand?

That's a very good idea. The ones that I've tried, though, had big leather buckles at the bottom to keep them on that wouldn't work inside out. I'm also not sure that the knitting is the same on both sides - I think not, actually, because the outside is designed to be quite rough so as to get a good grip on wet fish or bloody meat.

I'll look into it, though, next time I'm in a good cookery supply shop.

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  • Re: How to get a perfect Skin
    ... Last time I tried to bone a leg of lamb I nearly cut my left index ... You can get steel gauntlets made from chain mail at chef's supply shops. ... Left-handed shops ought to supply them for the right hand. ...
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