The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-21
Kitchen Cutting Tools
BIZ Mrs. Christine Frederick,
The D;sfineushed Authority on Household EHic;encv

x TOT long ago I conducted an
IN experiment to find out how
many steps the average
housekeeper took while she went
about her days work. Incident
ally, l found out the tool or article
she uses and handles most of all
and it was a knife! She needs a
knife to cut her bread, slice her
meat, pare her vegetables, there
is not a single task she can &C
complish without her cutting tools.
However, there are many places
in kitchen work where a single
cutting blade is not as desirable as
some other form of chopper or
slicer. / once proved, also, that,
whereas it requires almost Is
minutes to chop Id. of steak US
ing a hand chopper and wooden
bowl a rotary meat grinder
would reduce lb. of meat to a
fine consistency in about 3
minutes-a saving of IL minutes
in time, not to mention the saving
in effort. The reason, of course,
is that the meat grinder is cutting
all of the time, while with single
blade chopping knife, the knife is
cutting less than SO per cent of the
time, since the hand is raising it
in the air and back again for every
time the blade cuts the meat!
That is why, for quick work and
uniform results, some more compli-
Gated cutting device is necessary
tool in every kitchen. Probably
the typical meat grinder, fastening
with clamp to the table, is the
housewives most useful small APP
pliance. Everyone knows this
tool, with its various sized cutting
blades. There is nothing from
meat to nuts it will not chop. One
point to remember is to keep the
blades together and where they
will not get scratched or dented
while not in use. A good plan is
to keep all OF the knives hung
together on a single nail near the
kitchen table, instead of keeping
them in a drawer, where they are
so likely to be banged and lost.
Such a grinder viii soon pay for
itself in the saving of food, since
nothing so marvellously converts
leftovers into disable foods.
A chopping blade having four
smaller. divisions, that is, dividing
anything into four sections at once
is helpful novelty. For example,
this tool with a small wooden
handle may be pushed down on an
apple or potato and will at once
cut it into four equal sections.
Another tool with eight cutting
blades and a small handle at each
side cuts an apple into eight equal
parts, leaving the core behind.
The humble, frequent and
always disliked task of chopping
onions may be made more bearable
by the use of a small mincer re-
Gently put on the market. This
consists of glass receptacle into
whose lid is fitted an axle bearing
four small but sharp blades at one
end. On the bottom of the glass
c0ntainer rests little wooden disc,
easily removable. The onions or
other food, like parsley, peppers,
ETC., are placed on the wood and
then by rapidly moving the axle
up and down the little blades mince
the product fine. Because of the
lid there is no escape of odor, and
hence no tears n, ed to be dried
while chopping onions. It is a
handy and convenient. item for
many kinds of mincing where a
larger grinder is not necessary.
For cutting nuts for salads, raisins
for dessert or cake, and similar
uses it is unexcelled.