I just viewed a short  video on the The Wood Whisperer  Community http://community.thewoodwhisperer.com/video/a-mans-gotta-do-what-a-mans

On this video Marc used  his wife’s mixer to complete a task in the shop and it reminded me of the time I used my wife’s deep fryer to make some bees wax polish.

It’s a simple process, using the deep fryer as a double boiler, melt bees wax and mix in mineral spirits to make a  really nice paste wax. You can find several different recipes on the internet that will give the proportions and different ingredients but I use equal parts bees wax and mineral spirits. Well, almost equal parts, sorta equal but not quite. You know in the ball park kinda thing.

So, I borrow my wife’s deep fryer and whip up a batch of paste wax. After it has cooled, I clean the fryer and I mean clean, so clean you eat off of it. After all,  I just used it to boil water. The wax and mineral spirits are heated in a separate pan set on top of the fryer. OK, the fryer has been cleaned and returned to it’s  storage place in the base cabinet next to a stack of mixing bowls and I head back to the shop,  long before my wife is due home from work.

After dinner I head back to the shop to put the finishing touches on a table I had been working on. As  I leave the house, I  notice a box setting next to the shop door.  I am not expecting any packages and the delivery guy drops the boxes at the house. Hummm….what could it be?  Getting closer I see the box is open and a note inside telling me that I am the proud owner of a new ( not new but clean, maybe not clean enough) deep fryer.

I know better than to ask questions in these situations (not that I have been here before) and start considering where I can buy a new deep fryer. Her birthday is in a few  weeks, maybe I should wait and…. bad idea,  I’ll pick one up tomorrow.

Have you ever used a kitchen utensil or appliance  in the shop and it did not turn out as you planned?

Keith