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I put garlic in most things I cook but like, you can buy it in a tube or just cut it up. And you don't have to clean the bloody garlic press afterwards. Even if you eat garlic I don't see why you would want a garlic press unless you're cooking for ten people each time.
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Garlic presses are for scrubs.
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Apr 20, 2020 11:02
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OwlFancier posted:And you don't have to clean the bloody garlic press afterwards. This. My wife sometimes uses a garlic press when she can't trust her hands with a knife, but I'd far rather chop the garlic manually than wash the sodding thing up.
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Apr 20, 2020 11:04
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Yeah I guess if you have limited finger mobility they make more sense but I don't know of any kitchen instrument that is more fiddly to accomplish such a small task. Unless you're jamming several bulbs through the thing in one go I wouldn't bother.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:There was a thing on facebook a couple of days ago - someone caught her 10 year old daughter NOT taking part in the zoom call (which was on the computer) and doing other stuff instead - when asked why, the kid said something along the lines of - there's 20 of us in a gallery, I've substituted a photo of me looking alert and concentrating for the camera - the teacher will never know. Jaeluni Asjil posted:About 25 years ago when I bought my first flat and had zero stuff of my own, I considered buying a Habitat 'full home of stuff' kit for a single person. Listed under kitchen essentials was 'garlic press'. I can number the times I have ever considered using a garlic press on the sticking up fingers of one fully clenched fist. If I am planning on eating a meal with garlic in it, I'm in a restaurant. Sod that. The list was full of useless 'essentials'.
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Apr 20, 2020 11:07
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jamie-Oliver-J11000EDI-Flavour-Shaker/dp/B000AGQ7YM My mum got given one of these as a gift once. We never did manage to get it to do anything other than slightly bruise whatever was put inside it.
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Oh also if you want a substitute for eggs then you can use blood. It has quite similar structural uses in cooking.Nettle Soup posted:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jamie-Oliver-J11000EDI-Flavour-Shaker/dp/B000AGQ7YM  
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OwlFancier posted:I don't know of any kitchen instrument that is more fiddly to accomplish such a small task. One of these motherfuckers  A chilli grinder, impossible to clean, leaves half the chillis stuck to the blades.
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Apr 20, 2020 11:09
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soon the teachers evolve to notice when the kids aren't blinking, the kids respond by creating looping videos of them blinking somewhat, the teachers start to notice that, the kids develop complex ai algorithms to simulate attentive children, the ai algorithms gain sentience and take over the world, the ai algorithms need teaching too, the ai algorithms get bored with being taught and force children to sit in front of the camera, the cosmic ballet goes on
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Maugrim posted:This. My wife sometimes uses a garlic press when she can't trust her hands with a knife, but I'd far rather chop the garlic manually than wash the sodding thing up. As a major garlic addict (we get through several bulbs a week as I do all our cooking), sliced garlic tastes different from crushed. I’ll slice if I want the garlic to still be recognisable in the dish, but if I just want the flavour it’s crushing time. And yes, I have considered the prospect of garlic fudge. Just not sure if that might be a step too far.
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Nettle Soup posted:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jamie-Oliver-J11000EDI-Flavour-Shaker/dp/B000AGQ7YM I'm the eyebrows 10 seconds in. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrL4g9W1WWY Also anything that claims to "crush, grind, blend, mix and more" either has a dozen settings on the front or it does none of them well. keep punching joe posted:One of these motherfuckers Camrath posted:I have considered the prospect of garlic fudge.
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Apr 20, 2020 11:13
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Caramelized garlic fudge would probably work. Also put your chillis in a mister frosty from the 90's.
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I think there's genuinely a decent chance that the Tories will nationalise the pubs if it looks like there will be a mass collapse of them. I think they will go to extraordinary lengths to make sure there are pubs when lockdown ends, expending far more effort and compromise more on ideology to defend pubs than they would for people's lives or actual well-being.
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That seems weird give that they're not even bothering to do that for their actual voters.
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Have the tories even announced any new economic measures since the half arsed ones like a month ago? It seems like theyve been dossing off for weeks
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Comrade Fakename posted:I think there's genuinely a decent chance that the Tories will nationalise the pubs if it looks like there will be a mass collapse of them. I think they will go to extraordinary lengths to make sure there are pubs when lockdown ends, expending far more effort and compromise more on ideology to defend pubs than they would for people's lives or actual well-being. No they will definitely allow Tim Martin to buy them all up
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This is not what was meant when we said "nationalise wetherspoons"
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Yeah, the time you use a garlic press is if you’re cooking multiple batches for the freezer and you want to use half a head of garlic or so. Otherwise you’re better off either chopping it (if you want noticeable chunks of goodness) or grating it (if you just want the flavour).
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"the sticking up fingers of a fully clenched fist" made me actually howl with laughter, thank you. Yeah I use a poo poo ton of garlic (usually double whatever the recipe says) but I just grate it. Works just as well.
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Communist Thoughts posted:It seems like theyve been dossing off for weeks “Working from home”
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I just buy jars of chopped/crushed garlic and buy heads if I want a whole clove in the dish. 
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Guavanaut posted:That's genius, and tbf most kids learn to look alert while daydreaming irl, learning the digital equivalent shows digital skills awareness or some other CV friendly blurb. The next level is setting up a virtual webcam that's playing a looped video of you working. Like a casino heist movie but you are actually just playing games.
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If you crush the garlic with the flat bit of the knife then take the peel off, then chop it. You do the job of the press in a fraction of the time and I also think it tastes better.
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turns out the tories have just been putting up static images of them developing policy on all their zoom calls and hoping nobody notices
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Salt on the chopping board, crush the garlic with the flat side of a knife, chop. The salt captures all the juice. Stainless steel also gets the smell of garlic off your hands - my first job zinging off kleen-eze catalogues had an orb made of stainless steel for this strange purpose.
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Apr 20, 2020 11:46
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Are you ready to view the most profoundly cursed image in the history of the world?
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Apr 20, 2020 11:47
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im old enough to remember this derail the other times its come up
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Apr 20, 2020 11:47
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I'll just use that virtual idol software to have a V-me on the cam.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Are you ready to view the most profoundly cursed image in the history of the world? tbh I read this from the bottom up so I thought someone was trying to get Blair infected with the 'vid until I saw the username
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tony is animorphing into rupert murdoch
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Yep, flat of a knife to crush garlic. If you don't just use one big knife that you've come to rely on for everything then what kind of cook even are you.
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justcola posted:Salt on the chopping board, crush the garlic with the flat side of a knife, chop. The salt captures all the juice. Stainless steel also gets the smell of garlic off your hands - my first job zinging off kleen-eze catalogues had an orb made of stainless steel for this strange purpose.
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So I saw this tweet being liked by a few journalists I follow on Twitter. https://twitter.com/MarkPaulTimes/status/1251979157552205824 And reading the linked article, the Swedish Epidemiologist just sounds mad. Even without having to listen to the video of what he's saying to see if he's being taken out of context, just saying that Covid 19 is pretty mild and the fatality rate is probably only 0.1% just seems completely at odds with the whole worlds experience. Then researching how Sweden is doing led me to this article. https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/swedish-coronavirus-no-lockdown-model-proves-lethal-by-hans-bergstrom-2020-04 This quote was probably the most telling. quote:In practice, the core task of managing the outbreak fell to a single man: state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell at the National Institute of Public Health. Tegnell approached the crisis with his own set of strong convictions about the virus, believing that it would not spread from China, and later, that it would be enough to trace individual cases coming from abroad. Hence, the thousands of Swedish families returning from late-February skiing in the Italian Alps were strongly advised to return to work and school if not visibly sick, even if family members were infected. I say this because I've seen a few people touting Sweden as some model that we should be copying and that Herd Immunity over lockdown is the way to go. But what came out of the news this week is that Herd Immunity may not work. Or at least, that just because you get it, that you don't become immune to it, which seemed to be the basis for the UK's initial strategy. https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/no-evidence-people-who-have-survived-covid-19-have-immunity-who-994757.html Wouldn't that be the pinnacle of irony? BoJo gets Covid 19, is hospitalized by it, survives it. Goes back to work, then gets it again.
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If there is one gadget for the kitchen that looks fiddly and pointless it must be the apple-lathe. But when you got kids who like themselves some apples but not the peel, they are incredibly handy. Ours have peeled hundreds of apples by now.
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Fond memories of cooking a curry drunk and smashing the heel of my palm into the blade side of a giant knife and getting a huge cut which bled everywhere and immediately got garlic in it. Sharp side faces *away* from you, kids
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Am I terrible for just using chopped garlic from a jar?
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^^Anthony Bourdain posted:Garlic is divine. Few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly. Misuse of garlic is a crime. Old garlic, burnt garlic, garlic cut too long ago and garlic that has been tragically smashed through one of those abominations, the garlic press, are all disgusting. Please treat your garlic with respect. Sliver it for pasta, like you saw in Goodfellas; don't burn it. Smash it, with the flat of your knife blade if you like, but don't put it through a press. I don't know what that junk is that squeezes out the end of those things, but it ain't garlic. And try roasting garlic. It gets mellower and sweeter if you roast it whole, still on the clove, to be squeezed out later when it's soft and brown. Nothing will permeate your food more irrevocably and irreparably than burnt or rancid garlic. Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screw-top jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic. His Divine Shadow posted:If there is one gadget for the kitchen that looks fiddly and pointless it must be the apple-lathe. But when you got kids who like themselves some apples but not the peel, they are incredibly handy. Ours have peeled hundreds of apples by now. Also they're a really fun way to eat apples. Strom Cuzewon fucked around with this message at 11:59 on Apr 20, 2020 |
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Pablo Bluth posted:Am I terrible for just using chopped garlic from a jar? I think that makes you a fascist. Or a pragmatist, one of those anyway.
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His Divine Shadow posted:apple-lathe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Amz9IrZRmPc
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