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Skyarb posted:OK I am not a professional chef by any means, and often times I use a rotary cheese grater, because I find micro planes just take forever despite how much I have used them. Kenji IS pro and probably better than you, but that is also a specific cheese microplane with larger teeth. It will chew through a block of hard cheese way faster than one of the skinnier microplanes, or just any microplane with the smaller teeth for zesting.
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Doom Rooster posted:Kenji IS pro and probably better than you, but that is also a specific cheese microplane with larger teeth. It will chew through a block of hard cheese way faster than one of the skinnier microplanes, or just any microplane with the smaller teeth for zesting. Too satisfying not to post the cheeses: 
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Apr 1, 2020 02:40
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gently caress I thought I had too many Microplanes
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Steve Yun posted:gently caress I thought I had too many Microplanes I only have four, but now I kinda want the one second from left
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Apr 1, 2020 02:53
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That one is a very handy size for some applications
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Apr 1, 2020 03:01
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plester1 posted:Too satisfying not to post the cheeses: Link to where I can buy this sexy thing.
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Hauki posted:I only have four, but now I kinda want the one second from left That is a very good microplane, imo Steve Yun posted:That one is a very handy size for some applications I'm irrationally annoyed that they don't sell a zester with a metal handle 
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Skyarb posted:Link to where I can buy this sexy thing. I have such sights to show you: https://www.microplane.com/kitchen-tools-cheese edit: If you want to immediately go for the full Monty: https://www.microplane.com/ultimate-gourmet-grater-set plester1 fucked around with this message at 03:20 on Apr 1, 2020 |
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I'm feeling the need for a pressure cooker. Are all-in-ones like the Instant Pot or Ninja Foodi any good? The Foodi is particularly attractive since it's an air fryer too, if it works well I could send my current air fryer up to the family cabin and use that at home. But it seems a bit too good to be true. Should I just pony up for a real pressure cooker, and if so how big? Canning would be nice I suppose, I'd love to do pickles again sometime and I don't have the gear for canning right now. Right now I'm looking at some recipes for roast pork that use the pressure cooker to force marinade into the meat which is an interesting concept. That's the immediate draw for the question but I've been wondering. Air fryers are loving great for cooking frozen food, doing wings, reheating stuff that you don't want to get soggy, etc. And yeah I guess you could use an oven too but the air fryer is so convenient. Don't know how I lived without it. Only thing I don't like on mine (Gourmia 6qt) is that the bottom "bin" is the food drawer and you can't really put it into a dishwasher very easily.
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Apr 1, 2020 03:33
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Clark Nova posted:That is a very good microplane, imo Agreed.
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Apr 1, 2020 04:00
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Hauki posted:I only have four, but now I kinda want the one second from left
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Apr 1, 2020 05:06
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Man, i need a bigger microplane.
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Apr 1, 2020 05:28
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Oh good, now I have a microplane hobby. Thanks, jerks.
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Apr 1, 2020 05:43
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Earlier in the video he says the cheese is Boar's Head, not actual pecorino, because that's all he could get. Boar's Head is crappy domestic cheese that iirc isn't aged? It's soft as gently caress. You could grate it that fast with a table knife, practically. If you get an actual hard cheese, it's going to take a minute regardless.
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Apr 1, 2020 05:46
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Who cares. Authentic Pecorino "Romano" is made in Sardinia now.
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Apr 1, 2020 05:58
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I'm sure he still ate it and enjoyed it, I'm just saying a medium-soft thing grates faster than a hard thing
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Apr 1, 2020 05:59
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Anne Whateley posted:I'm sure he still ate it and enjoyed it, I'm just saying a medium-soft thing grates faster than a hard thing They age 8 months according to their website. I don't know what that means for grate-ability.
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Apr 1, 2020 06:01
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That is in line with traditional Italian farms.
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Apr 1, 2020 06:06
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domestic cheese, the sheer ignominy of it
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Apr 1, 2020 06:08
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Thinking about it, your original statement isn't true anyhow. At least with microplane graters, a hard cheese will grate much easier than a medium-hard cheese like cheddar.
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Sorry, I don't know why I'm getting mad about this.
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There is a point where cheese is too soft to grate easily and smears. Above that there is a point where cheese is not very hard and grates easily because it doesn't offer much resistance. Above that is a point where cheese is hard and you need to put more effort into grating it. Think about softwood vs. hardwood. I realize it won't be for awhile, but next time you go to a grocery store, try to put a thumbprint in vacuum-sealed boar's head and then in DOP pecorino.
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Apr 1, 2020 06:18
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Anne Whateley posted:There is a point where cheese is too soft to grate easily and smears. Above that there is a point where cheese is not very hard and grates easily because it doesn't offer much resistance. Above that is a point where cheese is hard and you need to put more effort into grating it. Think about softwood vs. hardwood. I know how grating cheese works. I'm a loving professional cook. I'm saying those rules don't necessarily apply with a fine grater such as a microplane. And to think I was concerned about being an rear end in a top hat.
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Yeah I have no idea why you've posted 6 times freaking out at me. I can tell you Parmesan that I bought the day before grates a lot faster than parm that's been in my fridge for a month. Because it gets harder, and that makes it more difficult to grate. Yes, even using a microplane, like we've been talking about this whole time. I don't even own any graters besides microplanes.
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plester1 posted:I have such sights to show you: https://www.microplane.com/kitchen-tools-cheese Is there any real difference between all the different "series" of microplanes?
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Anne Whateley posted:Yeah I have no idea why you've posted 6 times freaking out at me. I thought we were talking about Pecorino.
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Apr 1, 2020 07:28
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Can you two just gently caress already.
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pseudanonymous posted:Can you two just gently caress already. I'd rather you gently caress off entirely.
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Apr 1, 2020 07:30
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Anne Whateley posted:Yeah I have no idea why you've posted 6 times freaking out at me. Why the gently caress would you believe that unless you were incredibly naive. Think a little about what makes Parmigiano Reggiano a great cheese.
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I mean, I agree that this argument is all incredibly stupid and unnecessary.
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I don't know why you've been so eager to poo poo on me, but can you please just loving try it before you continue multiposting WRONG WRONG WRONG!!! I can't even tell you how many dozens of times I've experienced the difference. Hard cheeses are on a spectrum from relatively soft to very hard. Even within one type, the exact hardness can vary. Not all of those hardnesses grate with identical ease and speed. That's literally all I'm saying. I'd never have guessed it'd be controversial.
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Anne Whateley posted:I don't know why you've been so eager to poo poo on me, but can you please just loving try it before you continue multiposting WRONG WRONG WRONG!!! I can't even tell you how many dozens of times I've experienced the difference. You have literally said nothing while trying to say everything. Please shut the gently caress up.
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Apr 1, 2020 07:53
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Soft cheeses are sometimes hard. You heard it here first.
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You are Wendys trying to be anything other than Wendys.
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Apr 1, 2020 07:56
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Camembert is sometimes Pecorino. You heard it here first.
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Apr 1, 2020 08:01
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You heard it here first. I wish I had a better catchphrase, but i don't so whatever. Deal with it
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Apr 1, 2020 08:03
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gently caress insurance, and doctor visits
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Subjunctive posted:Oh good, now I have a microplane hobby. Thanks, jerks. Pick up some actual nutmeg it's pretty good + cool and gives you something to do with the finer microplanes.
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Paul MaudDib posted:I'm feeling the need for a pressure cooker. Are all-in-ones like the Instant Pot or Ninja Foodi any good? The Foodi is particularly attractive since it's an air fryer too, if it works well I could send my current air fryer up to the family cabin and use that at home. But it seems a bit too good to be true. Should I just pony up for a real pressure cooker, and if so how big?
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