How do you marinate meat? Unless you buy the 30 minute marinades from Lawry’s, you have to make the marinade, and then let your meat soak in it–overnight if you really want the full benefit of marinating your meat. And honestly, even Lawry’s takes longer than 30 minutes if you really want full flavor.
It was this long process that inspired Mary Hunter of Gary, Indiana to come up with an easier solution: the marinating stick. It looks sort of like a wide chop stick with holes. You insert your spices, and herbs into this ’wide chopstick’ and then insert the stick into the meat. While the meat is cooking, the natural juices of the meat help infuse the herbs and spices throughout giving your meat a full, and robust flavor. It eliminates the need to marinate meat and many chefs who have used it claim that the meat comes out with a better flavor.
It took Mary Hunter 13 years to develop a prototype and get a patent but now you can buy Mary’s Marinating stick online. This is great news for cooks, but if her idea really starts to take off, the people who will really benefit are the people of Gary, Indiana.
Mary, along with her son/business partner attend the same nondenominational church (where her son is actually the pastor). Many of the members are on welfare. So they decided to invest in telemarketing and sales training and give the people who were on welfare a job selling Mary’s Marinating stick. Hopefully, they will be able to work themselves off of welfare via their sales job. Anyone who signs up for the program is an independent contractor.
I’m always for when people combine their passion, with doing good for others. I love things that make my life easier and I love cooking gadgets, so as far as I’m concerned this is a must have in the gourmet kitchen. You can buy one of Mary’s marinating sticks at marinating stick.com.