I finally joined those of you who are not afraid to tie a piece of meat before it goes on to cook, but I found that in tying my stuffed pork loin earlier this week, things got messy and it would be nice to confine the twine to a container that will shield the bulk of it from the mess and be easy to clean on the outside once the tying job is done. This is a 500 foot roll of cooking twine and it is wound in a conical shape, making the base just a hair too wide for most of the plasticware containers I have around or even a pint Mason jar. After poking through cabinets, I found a long-neglected dispenser of germicidal wipes that might date back as long as 20 years when our youngest was an infant. They were dried out and useless, so into the garbage they went.
And if you're going, go all in, right? Peeling the labels off such an old container took time. Neither soap nor isopropyl alcohol took off the adhesive residue. So I used package sealing tape to apply the label from the twine package and wrap over the adhesive. Worked out okay:
There's a lot of extra space inside, so we'll see if that's a problem on the next tying job.
So have at it. Am I too obsessive or was this a good thing to do?
And if you're going, go all in, right? Peeling the labels off such an old container took time. Neither soap nor isopropyl alcohol took off the adhesive residue. So I used package sealing tape to apply the label from the twine package and wrap over the adhesive. Worked out okay:
There's a lot of extra space inside, so we'll see if that's a problem on the next tying job.
So have at it. Am I too obsessive or was this a good thing to do?
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