Batoning: A [Kitchen] Survival Necessity

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While preparing dinner tonight, I was chopping up yuca and realized that my beater kitchen knife was not up to the task.
ESEE and BladeForums to the rescue!
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After all that heavy batoning, it was time to move onto the "draw" knife technique for a little carving:
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Success!
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Hope y'all enjoyed this ridiculous post full of BS, cheap wine, great knives and great food!
 
Looks good to me!
Good use of the blade too. For some reason I never really consider using an "outdoor" knife in the kitchen, and yet probably at least 50% of what I use them for in the field is related to food prep in one way or another.

Now I gotta go get sompin to eat....

SJ
 
gregncat said:
Nicly done! Looks good too.
Is that Pintos and Carnitas?
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Lechon Asado (cheater crock-pot style)
Yuca con mojo
Black beans


SteelJunky said:
Looks good to me!
Good use of the blade too. For some reason I never really consider using an "outdoor" knife in the kitchen, and yet probably at least 50% of what I use them for in the field is related to food prep in one way or another.
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Neither had I, but pushing my cheap kitchen knife through the root was not working well and no way was I going to use my nice knives.
SteelJunky said:
Now I gotta go get sompin to eat....
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The leftovers were excellent :thumbup:
 
Ok I have to ask is this just yucca root that you cut up and simmer to use or is there more then 1 yucca. We have them everywhere around here and not once have I ever considered eating them. I have cot cut and poked several times on there leaves though is that is what you call them.
 
LWILLIAMS said:
Ok I have to ask is this just yucca root that you cut up and simmer to use or is there more then 1 yucca. We have them everywhere around here and not once have I ever considered eating them. I have cot cut and poked several times on there leaves though is that is what you call them.
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No, it's not the same as the flowering desert-plant yucca - although I think there are more than one variety of edible yuca ( I am pretty sure the edible root is spelled with one c, the desert plant with two c's).

Yuca and bananas were the main staples for many of the South American Indians, but the variety we had where I was in Peru didn't last longer than about 3 days once you pulled it out of the ground. I have heard that the variety in grocery stores in the US may be an African variety, or maybe they have a way of wax-coating it or something that we didn't have when I was growing up.

I miss eating yuca, either boiled, or fried like french fries (but needs salt, either way :) ). Great food pics!

Edit: wiki link on yucca/yuca: Wiki link about yuca
 
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Yes that makes a lot more sense as I had heard the plains indians used the root as shampoo, that is why I was having a hard time figuring out how it would make a great meal and a shampoo all at the same time.
 
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