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Pablo Bluth posted:Am I terrible for just using chopped garlic from a jar? Of course not. I think for a lot of people chopping stuff up and cooking it is fun that's why people discuss it like this. I love chopping up onions as well (I genuinely have no idea why).
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Cooking's a necessary evil for me so anything that makes it as simple as possible is a good thing in my book.
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Pablo Bluth posted:Am I terrible for just using chopped garlic from a jar? Not if you like it no. I find it entirely fine for most uses. E: Also I like my apples peeled with cheese so I just grab a lump of cheese and a knife with it. Unless you can sell me a cheese lathe.
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# ? Apr 20, 2020 12:05 |
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I'm even more basic, I use that there garlic paste what comes in the tubes and is 60p odd
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# ? Apr 20, 2020 12:07 |
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OwlFancier posted:Unless you can sell me a cheese lathe. Not that they're very close other than both being woodworking tools.
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# ? Apr 20, 2020 12:08 |
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I'd maybe spring for the napolina stuff at least, some of the tube stuff doesn't taste of much. There's also that weird one that comes out like... garlic mayonnaise almost, and it doesn't fry properly.
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# ? Apr 20, 2020 12:09 |
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I prefer cleaning the garlic press to trying to clean a grater. If you pop a whole clove in with the skin still on it still crushes fine, you get all the delicious pulp out and you can just peel the skin out of the press in one piece. Easy.
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I'm going to buy an apple lathe so I can just eat the peel.
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floofyscorp posted:I prefer cleaning the garlic press to trying to clean a grater. I have to this day never figured out how to clean a sieve. Do you soak it for ages?
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# ? Apr 20, 2020 12:11 |
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OwlFancier posted:Not if you like it no. I find it entirely fine for most uses. How do you get the cheese sharp enough?
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Jippa posted:I love chopping up onions as well (I genuinely have no idea why). There's definitely something cathartic about the process of chopping an onion. Especially since peeling them is so much more efficient and pleasant than peeling just about anything else. I don't know if onions are getting stronger or my tolerance has dropped but I can't get through an onion without some eye pain these days.
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# ? Apr 20, 2020 12:12 |
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Jippa posted:I have to this day never figured out how to clean a sieve. Do you soak it for ages? Bristle brush under the tap normally works, depends what you're putting through it? Lobster God posted:How do you get the cheese sharp enough? Old farmhouse cheddar
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Jippa posted:I have to this day never figured out how to clean a sieve. Do you soak it for ages? Run water through it, scrub with a bristle brush or sponge? I have one of those things that's a sponge on the end of a hollow handle full of dishsoap and it's great. I do most of the washing up in the house(husband does the cooking) so I have Opinions about it.
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# ? Apr 20, 2020 12:17 |
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Jippa posted:I have to this day never figured out how to clean a sieve. Do you soak it for ages? You can never fully clean a sieve, I just buy a new one most of the time. They're like what, 79p in Tesco?
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# ? Apr 20, 2020 12:18 |
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I turn it upside down and run it under the tap on full blast which usually picks up most of the gunk.
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# ? Apr 20, 2020 12:20 |
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crispix posted:I'm even more basic, I use that there garlic paste what comes in the tubes and is 60p odd Garlic is good
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Pablo Bluth posted:Am I terrible for just using chopped garlic from a jar? Some of that Bourdain quote is expert opinions on cooking from a master chef, and some of it is "i put years of hard work into getting my garlic chopping degree at garlic college & now everyones like "oh use a jar","pre chopped" gently caress off"
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sassassin posted:I'm going to buy an apple lathe so I can just eat the peel. Bramley apple peels and sugar (preferably made by shaking them together in a plastic bag) is one of the finest treats known to humanity and is reason enough to make an apple pie/crumble even *without* getting to eat the end product.
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Dell_Zincht posted:You can never fully clean a sieve, I just buy a new one most of the time. They're like what, 79p in Tesco? What, my parents have got one sieve from the 1970s still and mine is easily over a decade now.
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The Question IRL posted:So I saw this tweet being liked by a few journalists I follow on Twitter.
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# ? Apr 20, 2020 12:22 |
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What the gently caress are you people putting through your sieves that you can't wash off?
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# ? Apr 20, 2020 12:24 |
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Jippa posted:Of course not. I think for a lot of people chopping stuff up and cooking it is fun that's why people discuss it like this. I love chopping up onions as well (I genuinely have no idea why).
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Jippa posted:I have to this day never figured out how to clean a sieve. Do you soak it for ages? The solution is the same as the solution to many domestic cleaning problems - old toothbrushes. Or, if you're a soft southern Sonicare owner like me, new toothbrushes bought at the pound shop. They're fantastic for stuff like graters, sieves, and anything with weird hard-to-reach places because their entire design purpose is cleaning food debris out of hard-to-reach places. Also useful for cleaning grout, sealant, and motorbike chains (although being incredibly lazy I have a ten quid Lidl electric toothbrush I use for the latter).
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# ? Apr 20, 2020 12:26 |
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Lobster God posted:How do you get the cheese sharp enough? Was surprised to find that this guy has not made a knife out of cheese yet.
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floofyscorp posted:What the gently caress are you people putting through your sieves that you can't wash off? After boiling peeled potatoes and straining them there ends up being mushy potato on the sieve. And if you use a sponge on the sieve it shreds the sponge. I just chuck it in the dishwasher, same with my cheese grater.
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# ? Apr 20, 2020 12:28 |
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Cerv posted:he should’ve hired price harry to do their media strategy What's this about?
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# ? Apr 20, 2020 12:28 |
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I always press my garlic, it’s satisfying to do and gives a more even flavour than chopping imo. I bought a potato ricer purely because it’s a huge garlic press and the idea of pressing a potato is fun (playdough for adults!), but I’ve made mashed potato exactly 0 times since buying it
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# ? Apr 20, 2020 12:29 |
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floofyscorp posted:What the gently caress are you people putting through your sieves that you can't wash off? Yeah what, unless you're using it to sub in for the shower drain what the hell are you doing to them???
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# ? Apr 20, 2020 12:30 |
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floofyscorp posted:What the gently caress are you people putting through your sieves that you can't wash off? It tends to be stuff like spinach. I think I press down on it because it doesn't drain well and it sticks.
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Jippa posted:It tends to be stuff like spinach. I think I press down on it because it doesn't drain well and it sticks. Wouldn't you use a colander for that? Sieve is for separating fine particles suspended in a fluid (or de-lumping flour) whereas a colander is for separating water from large solid objects.
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# ? Apr 20, 2020 12:32 |
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Microplane or grate or slice garlic, presses are just messy and awkward.
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# ? Apr 20, 2020 12:33 |
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Coohoolin posted:What's this about? https://twitter.com/MarkDiStef/status/1252009109446176769?s=19
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# ? Apr 20, 2020 12:33 |
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I can taste a lot more garlic in the meal that I made using easy methods that I enjoy, than the meal I gave up on after half an hour with a bulb of garlic and a razor to satisfy some gatekeeping oval office that I'll never meet
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# ? Apr 20, 2020 12:36 |
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Can you craft things with an apple lathe? And what are the thread's thoughts on spiralizers? I have one, but it's stupidly large for what it does, and I've only used it a few times. I crush garlic with the handle of a large all-metal knife. (It is, in fact, my do everything in the kitchen knife) Angrymog fucked around with this message at 12:39 on Apr 20, 2020 |
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floofyscorp posted:What the gently caress are you people putting through your sieves that you can't wash off? Believe it or not my wife buys and then sieves chunky vegetable soup as she "doesn't like chunks".
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# ? Apr 20, 2020 12:37 |
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Dell_Zincht posted:Believe it or not my wife buys and then sieves chunky vegetable soup as she "doesn't like chunks". Do they not... sell non chunky vegetable soup? I get the appeal as chunky soup always puts me in mind of vomit but that seems like a lot of effort.
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# ? Apr 20, 2020 12:38 |
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Jippa posted:It tends to be stuff like spinach. I think I press down on it because it doesn't drain well and it sticks. I use a colander for things like spinach/salad and potato, but if you're using a sieve for chunkier things and you end up with chunky bits stuck to it that won't scrub off with a bristly brush just pick them out by hand tbh. And immediately rinse anything that's been in contact with potato or rice because when those dry out they become a pain in the rear end to remove - that's when the hard plastic scrapy bit of my spongehandle comes into play, or failing that, just my nails.
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Tarnop posted:I can taste a lot more garlic in the meal that I made using easy methods that I enjoy, than the meal I gave up on after half an hour with a bulb of garlic and a razor to satisfy some gatekeeping oval office that I'll never meet If you're on about Anthony Bourdain i'd be very surprised if you ever met him, bloke's dead.
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Dell_Zincht posted:Believe it or not my wife buys and then sieves chunky vegetable soup as she "doesn't like chunks". Blender?
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Dell_Zincht posted:If you're on about Anthony Bourdain i'd be very surprised if you ever met him, bloke's dead. Depending on your views on the afterlife that doesn't necessarily preclude meeting him, and going to hell just to yell at some opinionated chef seems like as good a motivation as any.
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