OXO Good Grips Meat Pounder
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of OXO Good Grips Meat Pounder
Customer Review: Food therapy!
Summary: 5 Stars
Standard mallets work, but put a tremendous amount of stress on your wrist every time they hit. The design of this one redirects the stress from your wrist to your hand, so your joints won't take a pounding.
The grippy, soft oxo rubber handle is thick and easy to hold, and the rubber extends past the handle onto the base, where it creates a nice base for your hand to rest on while absorbing shock. The weight of the solid aluminum base is all in the base, which keeps it from wobbling during the swing. All in all, a very well thought out design and good reason to toss the old fashioned wooden mallets you may be using now.
I've used mine for pounding chicken breasts flat. Just put them on a cutting board with plastic wrap over them, and pound them into an even thickness. This makes the cook more quickly and evenly. No more thick spots or parts that lift off the pan and undercook, or thinner spots that overcook.
Works really well for pounding garlic flat, too. Just peel the clove, put it on a cutting board, and give it a good whack with the smooth metal bottom. It's food therapy!
Customer Review: At 2 Pounds This Works Great
Summary: 5 Stars
I was looking for a pounder to help flatten chicken breasts (the have a habit of being really thin in one place and really thick in another). After a fruitless search in various cooking stores, I found this. I chose this one over the plain pounder just in case I would want a tenderizer. Boy am I glad I did.
With very little wrist movement, the tenderizer's weight flattens and tenderizes chicken with almost no effort (try that with one of those lightweight wooden ones).
The large flat section takes just a little more effort (still very little) to make your cuts thin and even.
Definitely one of the best things I have bought for my kitchen in a long time. I highly recommend it.
Customer Review: great tool
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great addition to any kitchen where a cook likes to get creative. I read a review in a highly respected cook's magazine that didn't like this style of pounder because they said the motion to use it was not comfortable. Their recommended tool was the equivalent of slapping the meat with the back of a shovel. This tool worked great. It is the perfect weight and very easy to control. The motion is very natural. You will be able to prepare a lot of product with this without wearing out your wrists. Sometimes you have to ignore the pros and go with what you think is best. You won't be sorry with this great little tool.Customer Review: Perfect for pounding
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this item. It has a great weight, not too heavy but not too light either. The size of the pounding end is really nice. It flattens out your chicken breasts nice and evenly with only a few whacks.
You use a very smooth motion with it and it doesn't take a lot of wrist and hand strength to use it.
I even tackled half frozen chicken with it one day and it handled it with only a bit more effort.
Great buy.
Customer Review: Pretty good
Summary: 5 Stars
Alton Brown said "Buyit", so I did, it works well.
It doesn't make the Texas Chain Saw Massacre mess the old school spiky mallet does, but it doesn't break up connective tissue on cheap cuts, either.
If you have a carpaccio habit- this is the tool!
I have four meat pounders, each one does something somewhat different, and I wonder if it's not just a gadjet fetish... But this is best in show for making it thinner. Like veal.