My New Food Slicer

If life gives you lemons, buy a juicer!

I use a local butcher/farmer/farmstore here for purchasing almost all of my meats. The meat is all hormone free grass fed deliciousness. The people there know you by name and are friendly as can be. Well today, I ran into my first problem with them.

One of my regular purchases is 3 pounds of sirloin cut thin for my homemade jerky (Recipe and method to come. I do it VERY unconventionally and about as primal as it gets). I never really put 2 and 2 together that my jerky meat purchase always cost me more than it probably should have. The Sirloin is normally $4.99 per pound but my 3 pounds always cost me about $21. Well I finally put 2 and 2 together today and realized that my butcher has been charging me $2 per pound to slice the meat! (It is kind of an involved process, freezing the meat and cleaning the slicer and stuff but still!).

So what did I do? I promptly left the butcher, went across the street to Linen and Things’ going out of business sale (50% off) and bought myself this slicer. I then went back to the butcher and bought a 3 pound slab of sirloin for $4.99 per pound.

What a fun toy! I cant wait to use it today to slice all that Sirloin and make my Jerky!

P.S. I had some questions about the background of the picture in the Damage Control Master Formula post. Yes that is a dispenser for coffee beans and yes it is full of almonds. You can kind of see it in the picture on this post too.