Cooking with a mandolin

Subject: Cooking with a mandolin
From: The Sandman
Date: 10 Sep 19 - 04:48 PM

I came across this recipe which suggested using a mandolin.
Sole fillet with crispy apple scales:

    Wash and slice the apples very thinly with a mandolin. Quickly put lemon juice on the thin apple slices.
has anyone tried using a banjo, or a hammered dulcimer for cooking purposes

Subject: RE: Cooking with a mandolin
From: GUEST,keberoxu
Date: 10 Sep 19 - 04:52 PM

You're onto something, darned if I know what though.

Do what I just did --

GOOGLE it -- you get a whole bunch of results.
Everything from
potato chips
to
fennel bulbs for a cucumber-and-fennel salad
to
red onions ...

Mandolin is a machine of some sort
for slicing fruits and vegetables.
And yes, it's the first time I ever heard of it.

Subject: RE: Cooking with a mandolin
From: Dave Sutherland
Date: 10 Sep 19 - 04:58 PM

It was a quiz question at a hotel where we were staying last week. What kitchen utensil beginning with the letter M is also the name of a musical instrument? I guessed mandolin.

Subject: RE: Cooking with a mandolin
From: GUEST,Martin Ryan
Date: 10 Sep 19 - 05:25 PM

Mind your fingers!

Regards

Subject: RE: Cooking with a mandolin
From: Reinhard
Date: 10 Sep 19 - 05:48 PM

The musical instrument is the mandolin. The cooking device used for slicing is the mandoline.

Subject: RE: Cooking with a mandoline
From: Reinhard
Date: 10 Sep 19 - 06:19 PM

Last Friday I got two albums from the old Greenwich Village label, Phil Beer's "Mandoline" and Dick Miles' "Playing for Time", and put them onto Mainly Norfolk. The unusual spelling of "Mandoline" in the album title made me look up the difference between mandolin and mandoline on Wikipedia.

Subject: RE: Cooking with a mandolin
From: Helen
Date: 10 Sep 19 - 08:56 PM

Maybe I could prep in bulk for a crowd using my harp strings.

Subject: RE: Cooking with a mandolin
From: GUEST,Starship
Date: 10 Sep 19 - 09:29 PM

If anyone falls through the harp, you'll have to visit them in hospital, rooms 17 to 64.

Subject: RE: Cooking with a mandolin
From: GUEST,Evadne
Date: 11 Sep 19 - 02:22 AM

Be careful of the cooking one. I've still got the scar on my finger.

Subject: RE: Cooking with a mandolin
From: Mr Red
Date: 11 Sep 19 - 03:15 AM

Seasick Steve was given a banjo made of Morris Minor hub-caps. On top gear.

Subject: RE: Cooking with a mandolin
From: GUEST,Mark Bluemel
Date: 11 Sep 19 - 03:33 AM

There's a famous clip of the British chef Rick Stein using a mandoline, where he says something to the effect that you have to be careful of your fingertips.
This is immediately followed by some bleeped-out swearing and the scene cuts to Rick with a plaster on his finger cutting veg with a knife.
He says "the sound you can hear in the background is a Japanese mandoline being thrown into a skip" (dumpster for our American readers).

Subject: RE: Cooking with a mandolin
From: Helen
Date: 11 Sep 19 - 06:11 AM

You could try multitasking by playing a mandolin in one hand while slicing veges with the mandoline in the other hand.

Subject: RE: Cooking with a mandolin
From: GUEST,Mark Bluemel
Date: 11 Sep 19 - 06:21 AM

You'd not have much of the mandoline hand left by the end of the exercise, Helen.

Subject: RE: Cooking with a mandolin
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 11 Sep 19 - 06:54 AM

From Wikipedia:

Its name is derived from the wrist-motion of a skilled user of a mandoline, which resembles that of a player of the musical instrument mandolin.

I'm visualizing two restaurant prep cooks who've just returned from a tobacco-free smoke break. One begins to energetically chop carrots using this thing which, as yet, has no name. The other looks at him and says, "Dude! It looks like you're playing a mandolin! Can you play "Whiskey Before Breakfast" on that thing?"

Subject: RE: Cooking with a mandolin
From: GUEST,jim bainbridge
Date: 11 Sep 19 - 07:54 AM

Never use recipes-

Mark Twain said that he had a friend who died of a misprint

Subject: RE: Cooking with a mandolin
From: Reinhard
Date: 11 Sep 19 - 12:05 PM

Always take recipes with a grain of salt.

Subject: RE: Cooking with a mandolin
From: Mrrzy
Date: 11 Sep 19 - 02:56 PM

Mandolines always take knuckles off. But nice slices!

Subject: RE: Cooking with a mandolin
From: GUEST,Grishka
Date: 11 Sep 19 - 05:23 PM

Using a mandolin, you get three thick slices and four thin ones, haute cuisine at its finest.

Subject: RE: Cooking with a mandolin
From: The Sandman
Date: 12 Sep 19 - 01:03 AM

if god had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn't have given us Fanny Craddock”

Subject: RE: Cooking with a mandolin
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 12 Sep 19 - 02:50 AM

"Cooking with a mandolin"
Not sure abour using as beautiful instrument as a mandolin for such things (though I do believe it to be often unsuitable for Irish music), but what an interesting idea
Wonder if anybody can come up with a better use for bodhrans other than to **** up good sessions !!
Just a thought
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: Cooking with a mandolin
From: GUEST,Jerry
Date: 12 Sep 19 - 03:31 AM

I thought the mandoline was the mandolin player’s answer to shred guitar playing.

Subject: RE: Cooking with a mandolin
From: Mr Red
Date: 12 Sep 19 - 03:53 AM

if god had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn't have given us Fanny Craddock”

And I know a guy who insists he heard Johnny Craddock say (in the days of live B&W TV) "Merry Christmas and may all you doughnuts turn out like Fanny's"



a better use for bodhrans other than to **** up good sessions !!

Sole purpose old boy, it is our enjoyment. Thankyou.

Subject: RE: Cooking with a mandolin
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 12 Sep 19 - 06:28 AM

as cooking, as opposed to preparing usually entails applying heat, wouldn't a Gretsch G9221 be more suitable?

Subject: RE: Cooking with a mandolin
From: leeneia
Date: 12 Sep 19 - 09:38 AM

I watched a video of a chef using one. I'm not convinced. I hear too many references to cut fingers, and he doesn't mention the waste that's involved because there's a good length of vegetable that's too short to cut.

Subject: RE: Cooking with a mandolin
From: GUEST,Evadne
Date: 12 Sep 19 - 02:57 PM

Mr Red - it was said, but by a continuity announcer. Not sure Johnny ever said so many words in one go.

Subject: RE: Cooking with a mandolin
From: Mrrzy
Date: 13 Sep 19 - 11:02 AM

One could cook *in* a bodhran, if you get the baby powder out first?

Subject: RE: Cooking with a mandolin
From: The Sandman
Date: 13 Sep 19 - 02:44 PM

Johnny was the strong silent type , but did he ever put a bun in Fannys Craddock

Subject: RE: Cooking with a mandolin
From: Mr Red
Date: 14 Sep 19 - 03:26 AM

I heard one TV critic say the Johnny's constantly going for the alcohol was a pure act. She was the dipso.

Subject: RE: Cooking with a mandolin
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 14 Sep 19 - 03:36 AM

"Sole purpose old boy, it is our enjoyment. Thank you."
I'd have to be very stupid not to have noticed Mr Red, which is why some of our session venues have an open razor at hand - just in case
Jim

Subject: RE: Cooking with a mandolin
From: GUEST,Jerry
Date: 14 Sep 19 - 04:25 AM

Shred bodhran playing?

Subject: RE: Cooking with a mandolin
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Sep 19 - 05:23 AM

I went to the session one Saturday night
the jigs & the reels they were flying all right
when the bould Seamus Ennis he came back to life
sayin 'would ye play that oul' bodhran with this here Stanley knife'

- heard in a session in Schull, West Cork, years ago

Subject: RE: Cooking with a mandolin
From: Mr Red
Date: 15 Sep 19 - 03:44 PM

I'd have to be very stupid not to have noticed Mr Red, which is why some of our session venues have an open razor at hand - just in case

actually, old boy, we bodhran players prefer to tune-up using a Swish Army knife, the one with the alien key attachment. Mine is red. And anyway we tune because we care..............