If you have to pound, wooden mallet if you have a meat tenderizer, rubber otherwise, never a metal hammer. It's a good idea to still use the kitchen towel as a buffer. But you should be able to just push down, use your body weight, and something solid, like a wood or plastic cutting board instead of your hand directly on the
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