You're Kidding, Right?: A Power Drill, and a Bow, Arrow & Fishing Rod Combo
A Two-Parter
Chef Dan saves the day!
The Chef: Dan Clark is Chef at the Elkhorn Inn & Theatre in Landgraff, West Virginia. He owns the inn with his wife Elisse.
You're Kidding Tool #1: "Proof that 'real' men do dishes," says wife Elisse.
The You’re Kidding Tool, Part 1: He once used a power drill with a metal brush attachment to clean a few pots that Elisse had burned.
The You’re Kidding Tool, Part 2: A bow and arrow combined with a fishing rod.
What He Does With It: He rigged together the bow, arrow and fishing rod so he could run a new water line into the Inn’s kitchen during an ice storm. This example of culinary brilliance earned him the nickname of MacGyver.
How He Stumbled Upon It: “No water = no cooking = closed Inn,” said Ellise, “so he HAD to figure out a way to somehow get a new hose line across the creek to our water source.”
You're Kidding Tool #2: Ready, Aim, Fire!
In Dan’s mind, there was only one solution: He stuck a fishing rod down his pants, tied the end of the fishing line to an arrow, and used his hunting bow to shoot the line across the creek before hooking up the hose. Et voila: water!
Interesting Factoid: In Elisse’s opinion, Chef Dan accomplishes superhuman feats like this every day. “He uses a hammer to pound meat, nuts, and spices into submission, plastic wire-ties to hold bunches of drying herbs together, an upholstery needle and thread to sew a stuffed bird closed, and needle-nose pliers to bend the wire that pins the legs on Cornish game hens.”
