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["William C. Garthright" <billg@inebraska.com>]

Apologies if this is off-topic, but I cut up a lot of rhubarb to freeze 
and give away, and it's quite a bit of work, especially with my dull 
knives. Does anyone know of an inexpensive slicer that would work to cut 
rhubarb into chunks?

I tried my cheap food processor, and it cut up the rhubarb fine, but 
doesn't spit out the slices. So they just go around and around until the 
whole thing is mush. Yeah, it's going to be a few months before I need 
to worry about this again, but I thought I'd ask for suggestions.

Hmm,... also, could anyone recommend a sharpener for my pruning tools? 
I'm both lazy enough and klutzy enough to find sharpening stones rather 
useless. And although there's plenty of information about sharpeners on 
the Internet, I don't know if any of them would work on pruning equipment.

Thanks much,

Bill
Lincoln, NE

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