Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
Détaillez-les à la mandoline
English translation:
Slice the (6cm or 3in) chunks with a mandoline
Added to glossary by
emiledgar
Aug 25, 2008 10:58
15 yrs ago
French term
Détaillez-les à la mandoline
French to English
Art/Literary
Cooking / Culinary
From a recipe for cucumber chips.
Pelez le concombre. Coupez-le en tronçons d’environ 6 cm. Détaillez-les à la mandoline. Plongez les lamelles de concombre dans le sirop froid.
I know what a mandoline is (I have one, albeit a very basic one, no crinkle-cut or waffle-cut options ;-). But it's the order here that irks me. They say to cut the cucumber into slices and then use the mandolin. But how can one use a mandolin on pre-cut slices? Or are they using the mandolin to add some sort of detail to the slices (aforementioned crinkle or waffle)? I imagine that would require a special blade, but one that is nevertheless used when actually slicing the cucumber, not after. Or am I missing something?
Help from all you chefs out there is greatly appreciated!
TIA
Pelez le concombre. Coupez-le en tronçons d’environ 6 cm. Détaillez-les à la mandoline. Plongez les lamelles de concombre dans le sirop froid.
I know what a mandoline is (I have one, albeit a very basic one, no crinkle-cut or waffle-cut options ;-). But it's the order here that irks me. They say to cut the cucumber into slices and then use the mandolin. But how can one use a mandolin on pre-cut slices? Or are they using the mandolin to add some sort of detail to the slices (aforementioned crinkle or waffle)? I imagine that would require a special blade, but one that is nevertheless used when actually slicing the cucumber, not after. Or am I missing something?
Help from all you chefs out there is greatly appreciated!
TIA
Proposed translations
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| 4 +8 | Slice the (6cm or 3in) chunks with a mandoline |
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Aug 25, 2008 20:08: emiledgar Created KOG entry
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Slice the (6cm or 3in) chunks with a mandoline
It seems to me that the recipe calls for cutting the cucumber into chunks and then sliciing the chunks with the mandoline. I'm a chef and that's how I would read it.
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Exactly.
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Note added at 10 mins (2008-08-25 11:08:54 GMT)
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Exactly.
Note from asker:
| Ah, I see! You first cut the cucumber into 6-cm sections, so they are easier to work with, and then into thin slices using the mandolin. Is that how you see it? |
Peer comment(s):
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Melissa McMahon
: yes, just bought a mandoline last week, you need to cut the cucmber into chunks first/Nb. 6 cm is more like 2.3 inches...
7 mins
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Thanks. Yes a mandoline a potentially dangerous machine and one needs to have control or one could end up with finger tip chips. Of course, an inch is 2.54 cm, but I think a recipe would be given in whole numbers.
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carolynf
: yes, here's another chef who agrees.
11 mins
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Merci.
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Mark Nathan
: Yes, that's how I understand it. Although, having pre-cut the pieces of cucumber, you would then have the choice of slicing them horizontally (making a series of rectangles) or vertically (making rounds).
15 mins
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Thank you. And, depending on the blade, crinkle cut or not.
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Mollie Milesi
: yes, but be careful of your fingers while you're pushing the food through this kind of slicer!!! Happened to me once, but not twice:)
20 mins
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Merci, yes, see my note to Melissa...
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Cetacea
: Yes, they should call these things guillotine instead of mandoline... ;-)
1 hr
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Thank you. Absolutely!
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Caroline Vignard (X)
1 hr
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Merci.
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John ANTHONY
: Yes, have had a mandoline for many years, and it always travels with me... :-)
2 hrs
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Thank you.
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Tony M
: Mine stays safely in the drawer... lethal things!
24 days
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Merci. I only use mine at work.
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Discussion
Note: for the purposes of this cookbook, the editor as asked me to leave in metric, so for once no need for all those calculations. :-)