Anybody regularly use an ulu? I bought one in Anchorage and it

[sinkingfeeling]

sure looks like it could be useful in preping.

[True Dough]

1. I think you spelled it backwards

[customerserviceguy]

3. Funny! n/t

[True Dough]

4. I'm a palindrome fanatic

Although my wife thinks I'm more of a palin-drone.

[customerserviceguy]

5. You mean like Sarah? n/t

[True Dough]

6. Now we're dragging politics into the Cooking & Baking Group

Can we talk Baked Alaska?

[customerserviceguy]

7. OK, glad you steered us back on topic! n/t

[Blue_In_AK]

10. For what it's worth,

Alaska is actually baking this year. 80 degrees right now, and it’s been record-breaking hot all of June with no break in sight. Climate change is real. (I know, not baking related.)

Backing out of DU now. Haven’t been here since June 2016.

[True Dough]

11. Well, I'm honored we could lure you back, even momentarily!

Hope things cool down for you. I know the forest fires can get really bad up there too.

[Blue_In_AK]

13. Yes, we have two large ones going on right now,

one near Fairbanks with mandatory evacuations and one down on the Kenai that has been burning since early June (lightning). There are 150 active wildfires in the state right now. It’s been so smoky, some days it looks like fog. We also just now had a brush fire here in town at the Far North Bicentennial Park that forced evacuations in that area, but they have it pretty well under control now. All the fireworks displays in Southcentral have been cancelled. (Of course, fireworks here in July are underwhelming. Save it for winter when you can see them.). The forecast for the coming week is for five straight 80+ days which is absolutely unprecedented. We used to be lucky if we got 5 or 10 70+ days in a whole summer. I don’t like this, but my gardens do, so I guess I can’t complain.

Average high temperature inJune is supposed to be 63 degrees.

Only fools deny climate change.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. I can't say I use it regularly because I don't cook much,

and I never have to skin a walrus, but I do have one. It's good for chopping vegetables.

[csziggy]

8. I have one, but didn't know that was what it was called

Mine is commercial, not from Alaska, so may not deserve the name.

I was intrigued and found this video about ulu and the history of the tool:

[Blue_In_AK]

9. Well, I haven't posted here in a few years,

but SHRED brought this thread to my attention. I use my ulu all the time for chopping nuts, garlic, ginger, and herbs. It’s a great tool. Native Alaskans were/are very resourceful, and this was a very useful invention.

[flamin lib]

12. I have one and use it for chopping and flaying picnic hams and the like.

Mind's handle is carved from an oosik (walrus penis bone).

Yeah, I didn't know that existed either. So much for an erection lasting 4 hours . . .