Pompano
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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]
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you're weird... but you're not alone. There are plenty of us fellow weirdos on this site.
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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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You're making me hungry!
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Chocolate and hot dogs?? How about cigar flavored ice cream.
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Pompano
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Martyman
Chocolate and hot dogs?? How about cigar flavored ice cream. |
Marty...Si como no? What kind of tool do you use to get that flavor going?
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Is that the new Dern-o-lator 2000?
If I order now does that guy come with it? 
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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.
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Pompano
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Ed, that is a very, very technical question and can only be answered by the Admiral, who is not here at present.
By they way, some visitors (fixtrauma and wife) just left here on their way to your place near Loreto. I am saying Hi to you for them. They should
arrive in about 1 1/2 hours or so.
The items requested by Sarah, the boatwreck victim, have been delivered here and await shari y Juan's arrival later. All's well.
[Edited on 4-8-2009 by Pompano]
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Wow, what a great idea. I like to slice up garlic cloves and put slits in my steaks and slide them in there. How much easier would it be to drill
small holes in the steaks while slightly frozen and slide those babies in there while thawing. Now my brain is going wild as I sit in my garage and
look at my power tools wondering how many uses there may be. But, must make sure the bits and blades are cleaned up real well first.
Great thread.
Bob H
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I just may set up my circular saw as a deli slicer. What blade should I use?
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DanO
I just may set up my circular saw as a deli slicer. What blade should I use? |
I would think that a plywood blade would do the trick.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DanO
I just may set up my circular saw as a deli slicer. What blade should I use? |
I used my grinding blade on the last roast I bought.
Reminds me, I need a new grinding blade.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DanO
I just may set up my circular saw as a deli slicer. What blade should I use? |
Here we go. Man, I love the internet.
http://www.yorksaw.com/content/view/17/83/
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Screw cooking
Didn't someone make a blender out of a drill press? Show me some pictures of that bad boy.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Dave
Didn't someone make a blender out of a drill press? Show me some pictures of that bad boy. |
Can't find a drill press, but here's a nifty blender using a rechargeable drill.
http://drillblender.com/
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BMG
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DanO
| Quote: | Originally posted by Dave
Didn't someone make a blender out of a drill press? Show me some pictures of that bad boy. |
Can't find a drill press, but here's a nifty blender using a rechargeable drill.
http://drillblender.com/ |
We were on a friends boat about a month ago. Out came the drill blender. I watched as Bill got a smug smile on his face and squeezed the trigger.
Lesson learned.....check to make sure the lid is tight. He ended up wearing our drink and had a sticky mess all over his c-ckpit.
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