what's in your laundry room?

For anyone who's been to our house lately, you may have noticed that there is an odd accessory in our laundry room/bathroom.  A somewhat small contraption perched on top of the dryer, that might just catch your eye as you're passing by to grab a tissue.  Oh yes, that hunk of metal is none other than the EdgeCraft 610 Chef's Choice Premium Electric Food Slicer that I snagged for Adam to thank him for his help with wedding planning.  What a nice wife I am.  Considering he has wanted one of these FOR YEARS and I've been refusing to get him one FOR YEARS.

I kept telling him that we wouldn't use it all that much.

He kept telling me we'd use it ALL the time.

It has been sitting on the dryer since July 2nd.

Who do you think was right in this case?  Just saying.

Anywho, the meat slicer isn't going anywhere, so finally we decided to give it a go.  London Broil was on the cheap at the market this week so we snatched some up.  I threw together a quick marinade and Adam fired up the grill.

While he was cooking, I relocated the meat slicer to the kitchen thinking that slicing meat in the laundry room can't be all that sanitary.  A quick wipe down and we were good to go.  Adam scanned through the instructions, grabbed a piece of meat and started the blade up.  It was surprisingly quiet for a sharp, fast moving blade.  I expected it to sound more like a circular saw.

There were a few issues at first, but once Adam got the hang of swiping the meat across the blade, things progressed pretty quickly.  I'd love to tell you there's a trick to slicing, but I have a feeling that the motion and how hard you need to press varies based on the type of meat you're slicing.  I'm sure we'll be experimenting with everything.  We did manage to create a large pile of ready-to-be-made-in-a-sandwich meat from our London Broil.  And have been feasting on it for the last few days.  This definitely beats deli meat by a mile!

Being Adam's 'toy', I refused to clean the meat slicer (and knowing in the back of my head that this was one of the main complaints about owning one).  However, clean up was relatively quick.  The slicer came apart easily.  Thank goodness.  A quick scrub and back to the laundry room it went.  I mean, we wouldn't want our laundry room missing its main piece of decor, right?

Comments

[Michelle]

Woah! I WANT ONE! And yes...what a great wife you are :)

[Megan Nicholls]

All I have to say...white t-shirt...white shorts...boxers showing...classy, bro. CLASSAY.

[busygirl]

I'm too used to his standard outfit. Didn't even realize that I just exposed my husband's underwear to the internets. Whoopsie!

[Britt]

My fiance wants one of these so bad. Too bad I'm a vegetarian, so he'd be slicing tofu! :)

[Grace Hester Designs]

Comin' over this weekend with some meats to "borrow" that slicer! I bought Noah a kick-butt juicer and after months (and a year) of being unused, we hit a summer juicing mood and that thing saw use like no other appliance in the house. So don't lose hope! :o)