What are your unconventional kitchen tools/utensils you were skeptical of at first but feel you can’t live without?

  • theoldgreymare@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Mine goes in the dishwasher after you reverse-press the fibers into the trash. I do peel the garlic first.

    Now to be fair, I hate chunks of garlic, I just want some garlic flavor in the food if it’s supposed to be there. So I’m never going to just smash or coarsely chop it. I’m also a garlic-sweater so I don’t use garlic at all if it isn’t necessary for the dish. But some delicious foods require it, and I just have to try to plan them so I don’t have something important the next day.

    • Dave@lemmy.nz
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      7 months ago

      Does yours have some function to bend it the other way and push the bits out? I always ended up having to scoop out the stuck bits and it is so much more work than squishing the garlic with the side of a knife. But I admit it may have small lumps. I normally squish, peel off the skin, slice against the grain, and squish again.

      Takes about 10 or 20 seconds, nothing extra to clean, and the biggest bits are still pretty small.