Cooking With Power Tools

Got time for some fun with oddball recipes? Like all things in Baja-living, it's about doing it your way.

Okay guys, we've all got power tools sitting around our homes and garages that we never use. Almost all of them,with a little imagination, can be adapted for food preparation, and just in time for that Easter Sunday dinner.

Go for it..get creative. A good belt sander will peel potatoes in a jiffy. A butane torch is perfect for Pop Tarts or marshmellows. Jigsaws can slice and dice with the best of them. Take your cordless power drill, poke the bit through the plastic lid of a styrofoam cup and hey!..you've got a blender for those pina coladas.

As you have organized your tools with care....it follows that no mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. So in that spirit, here we go!

The Cheese Choc-Dog

1 package hot dogs
1 loaf better-than-Bimbo white bread
1 can aerosol cheese product
electric drill with 1/4" bit
1 squeeze bottle of Hersheys Chocolate syrup
safety lenses

Instructions:
1. Put on safey lenses.
2. Hold unopened package of hot dogs with ends pointing towards you.
3. Using slow speed, carefully drill each hot dog lengthwise.
4. Open package and remove hot dogs. Each should now have a hole
down the center.
5. Fill cavities with aerosol cheese product.
6. Place hot dog on slice of white bread. Pinch bread into a trough around the hot dog and squirt liberally with chocolate syrup. Pop in toaster oven for 1-12 minutes, or until cheese is runny.

TUBE-STEAK PATE
1 all-meat hot dog (no turkey or sopalote)
1 tsp. sweet pickle relish
2 green olives, pimentos left in
8 (saladitas) crackers
Mayonnaise
Pepper
Power tool blender (see above)

Instructions;
1. Rev up blender to full speed and drop in hot dog.
2. Add relish and olives. Let blend at hi-speed for 90 seconds.
3. Spread the crackers generously with mayo
4. Spread pate on crackers; add pepper to taste. Makes 8 servings.

EXTRA SHARP CARROT CAKE
2-3 skinny carrots
1/2 handful brown sugar
1 can cola
1 pot pie tin
1 handful Bisquick
1/2 handful pumpkin pie spices
electric pencil sharpener

Instructions:
1. Shred carrots in clean pencil sharpener.
2. Line bottom of pot pie with carrot shavings.
3. Add Bisquick, sugar, and spices.
4. Knead slowly with hands, adding a small amount of the cola. Continue to knead and add cola until batter is the consistency of fresh Play-Doh.
5. Adjust sugar and spices to taste.
6. Bake in toaster oven at 400 degrees for 15-20 minutes.
7. Remove from oven. When cool, carrot cake can be frosted with canned or aerosol frosting. A real health treat.
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And..it might actually look a bit like this..maybe.



[Edited on 4-8-2009 by Pompano]

My Dad is a retired contractor....I remember well the time he rigged a drill to the hand-crank meat grinder. Long before there was the Salad shooter we had a Hamburger Shooter!

He's in his mid-80's now and, knowing him...he'd want to try out your recipies. I just don't want him to cut off his other thumb.

The Contractor's Cook Book
PowerEating with Power Tools

There's gotta be a book title in there somewhere

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Is that the new Dern-o-lator 2000?

If I order now does that guy come with it?

Roger,
experimenting with your recipes. Wife and I frequently cook together and need some embellishment on the "handful" part, since my hand would qualify for a snowshovel, why hers are dainty.
If it calls for 2 handfuls do one each.

I would think that a plywood blade would do the trick.

Bob H

Screw cooking

Can't find a drill press, but here's a nifty blender using a rechargeable drill.

http://drillblender.com/