Vintage American Meat Slicer 1920's

**alloy2** · 03-03-2023, 04:09 AM

Bought this meat slicer from one of the landfill custodians for $30.00. Patricia asked me why, just said I have an idea.

My first thought was the slicer would come in handy for making Jerky, but as most know one idea leads to another.

A trip to the local butcher to get a roast for the jerky lead to getting several box's of beef trimmings yea fat. I rendered the fat down into tallow then using the slicer cut some thin potato chips which I kettle fried.

To save my fingers from the blade I stab the spud with a fork.

Sent a pitcher of the chips over to her, now she wants me to give her some of my tallow and slice some chips up for her. This I'll do for her in the next couple of days.

I got a heads up on a large electric meat grinder that I've committed myself to purchasing, could not pass it up with an asking price of $100.00.

Any beef fat trimmings I get in the future will get ground up before rendering, this will help release the tallow and give me more usable pot space.

**alloy2** · 04-08-2023, 05:03 PM

Couple of days ago I deep fried a steak in tallow, seared both sides at once, medium rare on the inside best **** steak I've ever ate.

The butcher shop I get the scraps from also does pork, often I find large pieces of pork rhine that we cut into squares then bake in the oven for kracken - piggy puffs.

My Milwaukee scissors cut the rhine as if it were paper.

The tallow is in high demand by folks who make soap and the bone meal has many uses, a girlfriend adds a bit into her senior dogs food as a supplement and gardeners use it as an organic fertilizer.

So far I've been doing the rendering on the kitchen stove but have plans to set up a small scale operation inside my shop capable of processing a couple of hundred pounds at a time.

Once the bones have been cooked they go though the meat grinder, the grinder will be replaced with a home made hammer mill which will speed up the process.