ITT underappreciated cooking utensils

[Anonymous No.13658357]

>Potato ricer
For people who don't like lumpy mashed potatoes

[Anonymous No.13658389]

It's a unitasking piece of shit. Name ONE other use for a ricer besides mashing vegetables

[Anonymous No.13658401]

>>13658389
Making rice

[Anonymous No.13658417]

>>13658389
>Name ONE other use for a ricer besides mashing vegetables
you can smoosh blocks of cream cheese for making cheesecake without leaving them come up to temp. I've seen Jacques Pepin doing that once.

But even it if did only potatoes, it would be worth it for the high quality of the end product. Lumpy potatoes are gross.

[Anonymous No.13658418]

>>13658401
kek

[Anonymous No.13658423]

>>13658389
>fucking unitasker apologists
>name me ONE other use thats not holding liquid

[Anonymous No.13658430]

>>13658423
Holding granular solids.

[Anonymous No.13658432]

>>13658417
>Lumpy potatoes are gross.
i like the texture contrast, when they're perfectly smooth it gets boring

[Anonymous No.13658456]

>>13658357
I use one of these and my potatoes are never lumpy, because I’m not retarded.

[Anonymous No.13658459]

>>13658423
I put my pens in 'em

>>13658456
i use a fork
i fucking love lumps

[Anonymous No.13658465]

>>13658389
Hating on unitaskers is a meme.

[Anonymous No.13658467]

>>13658357
I used to make a lot of gnocchi and this was the perfect utensil. Homemade is so much cheaper than buying the overpriced supermarket gnocchi. Potatoes+flour = cheap.

[Anonymous No.13658468]

>>13658423
My Alamy Stock Photo disagrees

[Anonymous No.13658471]

>>13658456
>>13658357
Whats the difference between your retarded spork and one easy motion. if your arguing unitasker, OP is easier to use with better results. There you are mashing in the bowl for 10 minutes vs OPs 3 minute squeeze.

[Anonymous No.13658473]

>>13658389
Name ONE other use for a knife other than cutting things.

[Anonymous No.13658477]

>>13658471
I didn’t argue unitasker, and it takes me about 30 seconds. I use the masher because ricers take too long and they break, same as a garlic press. It has no advantages.

[Anonymous No.13658483]

>>13658473
I use the side of my knife to crush garlic.

[Anonymous No.13658487]

>>13658432
why is guy so based?

[Anonymous No.13658490]

>>13658467
I add egg yolk to my gnocchi. Traditionally, people put the whole egg, but the albumin makes it need more flour and adds no flavor, imo.

>>13658459
Sure, you can use a fork, but you're gonna be there for 15 minutes, whereas a ricer would get the job done in less than 1 minute.

[Anonymous No.13658493]

>>13658357
Or just mix your potatoes better retard

[Anonymous No.13658496]

>>13658490
Oh yeah i forgot about the egg, yes i added egg too, but just the yolks. I used the whites for other things.

[Anonymous No.13658514]

>>13658490
>but you're gonna be there for 15 minutes
more like 2 minutes for 2.5 lbs of potatoes in my experience

[Anonymous No.13658526]

>>13658473
Stabbing snitches.

[Anonymous No.13658533]

>>13658389
Squeezing lemons and limes
Dumbfuck

[Anonymous No.13658568]

>>13658533
You can also put a baby bird in there for ricing.

[Anonymous No.13658578]

>>13658357
I'm allergic to rice, though

[Anonymous No.13658618]

>>13658578
You should avoid riced cauliflower then

[Anonymous No.13658637]

>>13658389
Making gnochi

[Anonymous No.13658670]

Hating unitaskers is for pantrylets. Yes we know you can't afford a big place but Cmon..

[Anonymous No.13658777]

>>13658389
its mashes better than other shit, so its worth it

[Anonymous No.13658937]

>>13658389
Hash browns

[Anonymous No.13658969]

>>13658637
This

[Anonymous No.13658987]

>>13658432
you're alone on that one, weird ass

[Anonymous No.13659007]

>>13658987
Not really. Tho I don’t like lumpy potatoes, I do like mashing baby potatoes with the skin on for the texture.

[Anonymous No.13659130]

>>13658473
spreading condiments or butter or sauce

[Anonymous No.13659320]

>>13658357
>>13658389
>>13658417
It's also good for making spaetzle and spaghettieis

[Anonymous No.13659393]

>>13658987
No, leaving some lumps is objectively better

[Anonymous No.13660353]

>>13658389
>It's a unitasking piece of shit. Name ONE other use for a ricer besides mashing vegetables
Potatoes are used so often in European cuisine that I think this "unitasker" is entirely justified. That said I usually just buy instant mashed potatoes. I watched a docu about how they are made once, nothing unhealthy or offputting about it. Just boiling, mashing and drying spread over huge, heated rotating cylinders.

[Anonymous No.13660445]

>>13658389
I can post in desktop threads on /g/

[Anonymous No.13660766]

>>13658357
if i want no lump potato i use a sieve and it actually work unlike this junk
also a lot of people think most if not all kitchen utensils are 1 dimensional in terms of use

[Anonymous No.13660787]

>potato ricer
>doesn't turn potatoes into rice
Stupid English names for things thread? Cool.
Anyway, that's called a spätzelpresse.

>>13658477
>they break
You ain't never lie. Not paying attention to what I was doing, I put the large-hole plate in the bottom of my spätzelpresse upside down and when I was finished making passatelli (cheese-and-breadcrumb spätzeln used for soups) I found that the plate was now stuck.

[Anonymous No.13660797]

>>13658389
>>13658401
>>13658417
can't you use a gratter??

[Anonymous No.13660802]

>>13660766
just get a food mill, then.

[Anonymous No.13660810]

>>13659130
>spreading condiments
>or butter
>or sauce
So... spreading condiments?

[Anonymous No.13660820]

>>13660766
Please explain how a potato ricer would work properly.

[Anonymous No.13660830]

>>13658473
Enriching a local European community.

[Anonymous No.13660839]

>>13660820
Sorry

*not work properly

[Anonymous No.13660882]

>>13660797
You want us to grate hot, freshly boiled potatoes?

[Anonymous No.13660911]

>>13658456
HURR DURR UNITASKER ! ! !

[Anonymous No.13660913]

>>13658389
being so poor that you can't have tools that are made for a specific use

[Anonymous No.13660914]

>>13660911
Stop being retarded on purpose. I’m not one of the faggots complaining about unitaskers. I just think anyone who can’t mash potatoes with a regular masher is a fucking idiot.

[Anonymous No.13660917]

>>13660911
>unitasker
You can also use it to flatten burgers or press meat onto a grill moron

[Anonymous No.13660921]

>>13658357
these are cool.
my wife bought one. to make gnocchi. once.
so i use it sometimes.
i like making mashed potatoes the french way, with a tamis
last night i made them just lightly crushed
it depends on the potato

[Anonymous No.13660931]

>>13660917
>flatten burgers
with a potato masher

[Anonymous No.13661020]

>>13660931
Yes, if you have half a brain a thing can have more than one use.

[Anonymous No.13661026]

>>13660931
>how can you use a piece of metal designed to flatten and mash things to flatten and mash things

I hope you're not this retarded.

[Anonymous No.13661060]

>>13661020
>>13661026
Right, so when you put potato in there does it flatten it into a perfect disc? Or does it fucking rice it like the picture shows

[Anonymous No.13661063]

>>13658357
They’re only lumpy if you undercook the potatoes though. And if you rice undercooked potatoes you will have rice sized lumps anyway

[Anonymous No.13661069]

>>13661060
>put ball of meat in ricer
>gently press down the lever until your burger is flat but not squishing through the grate
>turn upside down
>gently tap until burger slides out
I would never bother doing this, but you’re literally fucking retarded if you cannot figure out how this would work.

[Anonymous No.13661098]

>>13661069
I think he meat using the potato masher to squish the burger down like a smash burger.

[Anonymous No.13661120]

>>13661069
Maybe try and read, you retarded nigger. He's talking about a potato masher

[Anonymous No.13661130]

>>13658568
true! also testicles.

[Anonymous No.13661196]

>>13658357
>any utensil-related thread
>poorfags come in screaming about how they can mash potatoes with a toothpick and use a aluminum can lid as a pan
Congratulations, instead of buying ONE tool that will last you a lifetime (unless you buy cheap trash that breaks) you spend orders of magnitude more time and effort for comparable but often inferior results. Do you expect to impress anyone?

[Anonymous No.13661202]

press the potatoes through a sieve
its easier, and give just as fine a texture

[Anonymous No.13661209]

>>13660802
why do that when you can use the classic sieve method?

[Anonymous No.13661232]

>>13661209
because the food mill has more uses.

[Anonymous No.13661248]

>>13661232
than a sieve? I've never used a food mill...
please elaborate

[Anonymous No.13661397]

>>13661202
i like making potatoes like this, but some potatoes don't work that well for this method
inb4 hurr get the proper potato

[Anonymous No.13661398]

[Anonymous No.13661412]

>>13658473
I trigger faggots by tapping it

[Anonymous No.13661421]

>>13661398
Can't wait to get the tip of my dick suck in that

[Anonymous No.13661439]

>>13661398
Hate these soyboy products, reminds me of the fucking Soylent bottle opener which was some overpriced electric motor encased in smooth non-threatening plastic instead of just a fucking wrench.

That thing has no purpose if you have spoons at home, all it is is a spoon with a dozen failure points.

[Anonymous No.13661443]

>>13661439
You're awfully upset about spoons.

[Anonymous No.13661450]

>>13661439
Oh no, failure points in my measuring spoon

[Anonymous No.13661546]

>>13661398
This is neat but I bet they're really expensive. I probably wouldn't buy them for myself over the traditional stainless or plastic measuring spoons.

[Anonymous No.13661604]

>>13661443
I can't believe this isn't satire.

[Anonymous No.13661667]

>>13661450
How about just normal spoons, my bay area friend? Why make it 10x as expensive for zero gain (it takes as long if not longer to fold that thing than to reach for a different spoon) and just making sure it will break in a year, as opposed to a spoon that will last you your lifetime?

[Anonymous No.13662472]

>>13658987
I like mine with the skin still on and plenty of varying sized lumps.

[Anonymous No.13663478]

>>13661439
>That thing has no purpose if you have spoons at home
dear soyjack, have you do know there's a difference between a spoon and a measuring spoon, don't you?
that being said, that thing does look kinda dumb

[Anonymous No.13663482]

>>13658389
>ONE other use for a ricer besides mashing vegetables
making fags like you rage on /ck/ and probably irl too