Reddit reviews Plastic Cutting Board 12x18 1/2" Thick White, NSF Approved Commercial Use

$40 Chef's Knife

$15 Cutting Board

$40 Cast Iron Dutch Oven

$10 Stainless Steel Cooking Utensils

$99 Food Processor

$205 is the best I could do.. you could probably get a cheaper cutting board.. but.. that was the best large plastic one I could find..

Depends on your background but "Learning to cook" is overstated.

There are produce, you heat them, you eat them. It's that simple.
Then comes the variations :

• cuttings ( slice, dice, julienne, etc..)
  
  
• cooking
  there are basically 2 big family of cooking:
  
  
• by concentration when you keep the nutrients inside your food by heating them quickly (roasting, sauté, steamed, fried)
  
  
• by expansion when you transfer the nutrients in the fluid you cook, starting cold.
  
  The whole cooking traditions in every culture in every continents can be translated in these principle.
  
  Even if you become efficient, you may want to start cooking in advance and freeze or can it /r/canning.
  
  On a practical note I would suggest you to buy:
  
  
• a proper large cutting board
  
  
• an 8$ kiwi brand knife cheap, easy to sharpen ( yet I didn't have to in 5 years ). cover 90% kitchen needs.
  
  then if you can afford it :
  
  
• a hand mixer (or a quarter or more capacity blender, thermomix even better)
  
  
• a pot with a steam basket
  
  
• cast iron, carbon steel or enamel pans. edit after zippy's comment: or ceramic coated pan best quality/price/harmlessness/asspain free ratio
  
  
• 2 or 3 various sized stainless saucepan.
  
  All these things will last a lifetime, on any source of heat, with no chemicals in it.
  
  You can buy all that from professional catering industry supplier ( like [METRO] in continental EU. ) for a fraction of what you find in retail store, or even amazon.

From what I understand pretty much anthing from Morel will sound great.

I would make some MDF or Poly 6x8 to 6.5 adapters but 3/4" MDF is way overkill for that small of an adapter, 1/2" would probably be better. The selection and quality of 6.5 drivers is better than 6x8 drivers from my experience.

1 - go to Walmart and buy a large, white, 1/2" thick cutting board. Once you have the TS dialed in for the exact thickness you need for runners... chip that cutting board up into as many runners as you can make. They are slick, they are stable, and cheap!! Example: Stanton Trading 12 by 18 by 1/2-Inch Cutting Board, White https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0032AM0BC/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_Ce9Eyb2KC1XA2

2 - Harbor Freight sells a very cheap dial indicator as well as calipers that will be perfect for getting your TS fence and blade square, and measure to get the runners cut. Also buy some feeler gauges...

3 - Search YouTube for "William Ng" "5 cuts to a perfect cross cut sled"

4- Have fun and be safe!!

No problem.


I’m at work right now and didn’t think to take pictures, but here’s a diagram I found on google to show what I mean. It’s labeled here as the “guide bar” fits in the miter slots of the table saw. A lot of people use wood for them, but with the way humidity varies in Kansas, I wasn’t going to risk it getting unusable in summer or too loose in winter.


http://www.woodmagazine.com/woodworking-plans/build-in-a-weekend-bookcase/?page=13


So, what I used for mine was something like this:

http://www.amazon.com/Stanton-Trading-2-Inch-Cutting-Board/dp/B0032AM0BC/ref=sr_1_18?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1415214887&sr=1-18&keywords=cutting+board


Not that one specifically, but something similar. Just a plane jane large cutting board made of HDPE. The one I used was about 18”x12”x1/4” which was more than sufficient for the size of my table.


I ripped the first piece to get rid of the rounded corners on one side. Then ripped 2 lengths ¾” wide and used a plane and a card scraper to get them to just the right size.

usually a cheep amazon chopping board will do the trick. i would not want to risk getting that type of debris in my computer. even if you can throw some plastic, or even cardboard taped on top should be atleast a better option to minimize risk

-cd