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    EQUIPMENT CORNER

    Aug 11, 2020 3 minutes
    BY MIYE BROMBERG, RIDDLEY GEMPERLEIN−SCHIRM & LISA McMANUS

    Meat Pounders

    eat pounders are great for flattening boneless pieces of meat or poultry into evenly thin cutlets so that they can cook through quickly and consistently. We tested eight models in a variety of styles: long-handled pounders, short-handled pounders, and double-headed meat mallets. The mallets were lightweight and easy to swing, but their square heads were too small to cover much food in a single stroke, making it hard to pound the cutlets evenly; worse, the corners of those heads dug into the food, gouging it.

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