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Old 2005-07-21, 12:45pm
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Default Parallel mashers - who makes a good one?

Hey all!

I'm looking to buy a set of parallel mashers and I'm wondering who makes the best of these? I mean, I really want a pair that mashes perfectly parallel.

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Old 2005-07-21, 1:14pm
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Hi Kimberly!

I was afraid someone was going to say Dona They're so expensive! But maybe it's worth it. I haven't had much luck finding any...most of them are quasi-parallel. The only other one I found works on a sort of plier mechanism but tweaked to press parallel. The cost increase is remarkably steep so maybe there isn't much of a price difference between those and the Dona tools. I'll have to check it out!

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I have just the BBQ mashers (I think Frantz makes the best ones of those) but I've seen the parallel mashers/pliers thing and it's a bit of a Frankenstein. I think it looks pretty unwieldy and I imagine they'd take a fair amount of strength to close.

I can get a pretty flat bead from my BBQ mashers by mashing, turning the bead over and mashing again. Sometimes I'll do it several times.

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