motorized meat slicer

[gjk5]

didn't know where else to put this but the Pastrami thread got me to thinking about a slicer again.

Any suggestions on an affordable but good slicer?

I will be trying the pastrami and make brisket and smoked roasts of all sorts pretty often. Would like to be able to slice up and package a lot of it without lots of knife work. Seems like a good candidate for the deep freeze (any iput on this appreciated too)

[Pitmaster]

For brisket if you want to speed it up an electric knife works pretty good. I'm of the opinion that you need at least a small hp commercial slicer but having said that you need a large frame to hold a brisket. The best shot to get a good slicer is restaurant auctions, Craigslist, and your local classifieds in the paper and online.

Slicers for the home generally junk and will do nothing but pi$$ you off after a few times.

[BigSlick]

For brisket if you want to speed it up an electric knife works pretty good. I'm of the opinion that you need at least a small hp commercial slicer but having said that you need a large frame to hold a brisket. The best shot to get a good slicer is restaurant auctions, Craigslist, and your local classifieds in the paper and online.

Slicers for the home generally junk and will do nothing but pi$$ you off after a few times.

+1 on both counts. The el cheapo junk you get at the retail places don't hold up for crap.

You might wanna check out a restaurant supply store in your area. The ones back home have a once a year sale on most stuff over $500 that can turn out to be a fantastic deal.

This one went on sale for $399 last time I got a sale flyer in the mail. I was too late and I missed it and a killer fryer that I would really like to have.

This is a national chain restaurant supply place. You might find working with a local place with a pay up front and order it kinda deal will net you a cheaper price. Most of these places double their cost for a regular price, so you can figure roughly half to be actual cost and go from there with your CRB skills ;)

This is a 11" unit, and should handle all but the biggest briskets. If ya get one too big to handle, just use a knife and cut it to where it will work.

http://www.acemart.com/prod232310056.html

http://www.acemart.com/renderImage.image?imageName=graphics/00000001/products/BER825A.jpg&width=400&height=300&padding=0

[jawjaboy]

Depends on what ya need really, as already said.

[gjk5]

I have a couple of big BBQ's a year where I cook 6-8 briskets, even with an electric knife it gets old real quick.

I assumed most of the big box store ones would suck, thanks for the input.


need to find some good thick rubber gloves fer butt pickin too

[Pitmaster]

The gloves you can order from Galeton (http://www.galeton.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/GroupDisplayView?langId=-1&storeId=10601&catalogId=10101&topCategory=10679&groupCategory=10573) get the Neoprene. I've bought multiple pairs over the years. They are good gloves until you poke them with a knife. That's not a glove quality issue.

[zdogk9]

We bought our Hobart used about 20 years ago. The only thing Ive done to it was repack the gears and replace the power cord. Its gone through two and one half metric butt loads of sandwich meats who knows how much bread, 35 deer and 12 elk. It runs as good today as the day we got it. I figure it is about 30 years old. It'd run about 3-500 today.

[gjk5]

The gloves you can order from Galeton (http://www.galeton.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/GroupDisplayView?langId=-1&storeId=10601&catalogId=10101&topCategory=10679&groupCategory=10573) get the Neoprene. I've bought multiple pairs over the years. They are good gloves until you poke them with a knife. That's not a glove quality issue.

Thanks PM, those are nice. the wife is gonna make fun of me for sure. First the big welder's gloves (one pair for camp and one for 'Que) and now these.

We bought our Hobart used about 20 years ago. The only thing Ive done to it was repack the gears and replace the power cord. Its gone through two and one half metric butt loads of sandwich meats who knows how much bread, 35 deer and 12 elk. It runs as good today as the day we got it. I figure it is about 30 years old. It'd run about 3-500 today.

Hobarts is always good stuff, I will keep an eye out. Lots of restaurants going under 'round here lately.