I always enjoy watching a new kitchen tools of this and that doing its work for what it is made for and the story of Thomas Edison who invent tools, gadgets, and machines, etc. with the intention to help his mother - to alleviate her from labor intensive chores, etc. Maybe that's why they say, ".... is a "Mother" of Success..." maybe that's not the true sense, but regardless it brought back the memory of the day when I watch in wonder what is going on when a group of my mother's friend came to our house for what seems to compare to today's tupperware party. It was back in the 60's. Everyone sat in a circle and was presented this plastic containers with lids. All the women's eyes lit up with joy. I was not sure what the big deal was, but I guess it was. Because they all took purse out and bought one to take home. I also noticed the joy and the same 'eyes lit up' when my father brought home an electric rice cooker - National brand, then, the washing machine. I think the washing machine was just amazing. Our family's dearest housekeeper... naaa, she was more like our nurse mother, a family member.... was very delighted to see the washing machine. All she had to do after it finishes washing is to hang up all the clothes on the bamboo poles and hung them out to soak up the sun. Really Cool. In the kitchen, beside the plastic container with a lid that became a star, I think the kitchen knives of all sizes are the boss even to this day. There are vegetable slicers and peelers, too. I like them all. But, my mother can skillfully slice the cabbage into thin hair threads effortlessly with her Chinese cleaver knife. The thinly sliced cabbage threads melt in mouth served next to the hamburger steak meal with TONKATSU sauce and rice. I remember it was a big deal when the potato chips showed up at our local candy stores. It was sold by weight. 50 YEN (Japanese YEN) back then, woul buy you 5 slices of potato chips. I recall when we lived in S. Viet-Nam, my oldest sister came home one day from her French cooking class and made us the fried potato chips. The potatoes were thinly sliced and fried. We really loved the snack. I thought that was amazing. Well, here in U.S., we get a small bag of potatoe chips for 95 cents and family size for $4.99. We don't have to slave over washing the potatoes, peeling, then slicing them, then, to decide to follow icing them or not or fry them twice or not. Just go to the store and buy a bag. Unfortunately I need to control the amount of salt consumption, so I tried to make the potato chips myself. I only remember that my sister told me that they need to be sliced very thin. Then, it will puff up during frying. Well. I tried. Of the 20 slices, maybe 5 will puff up. The rest seems to be limpy. I don't want to know how or what they put in the manufactured potatoe chips to keep the potatoes 'dry' in the bag, but I am happy to have the 5 slices of crisy chips.
I wanted to buy the Mandoline slicer for many many years. But unlike in Japan, the price of mandoline slicer have been very high until just recently I was able to buy one within a reasonable $30 for a mandoline slicer that can even do a crosscut potatoes. Not that I need the crosscut slicer, but it was a good optional feature to encourage me to buy it. So, with my mandoline slicer, I made my own potatoe chips. Wow, one potatoe, two potatoes... you lost count after frying them into tasty potato chips. 3 potatoes are easily consumed in no time when it turned into potato chips. I checked the Internet on the history of Mandoline slicer, and it associated itself to the French Guillotine inventor Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin.. https://kitchenproject.com/history/Tools/Mandoline/index.htm C'est intéressant; ЭТО ИНТЕРЕСНО; HONMA?? Regardless, I even watched at the famous "The Kitchen" restaurant in Sacramento, I watched one of the chefs use the Mandoline to produce even and consistent slices of ingredients. Cool, I thought. So, why not for my kitchen. I love it.
Be very careful and never run your fingers across the blade to test its sharpness. It is extremely sharp like SHINKEN.
OISHII DESU!! Delicious!
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