/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.6686135]

Show me a more useless kitchen gadget.
You can't.

[Anonymous No.6686144]

Name an easier way.

[Anonymous No.6686146]

[Anonymous No.6686148]

>>6686144

This.

Is OP trying to troll? Even my grandma who cooked constantly and only owned like two kitchen gadgets beyond the regular utensils owned one of those things, and used it nearly every time I ever saw her cooking.

[Anonymous No.6686150]

>>6686146
/thread

[Anonymous No.6686166]

>>6686144
I bet you buy pre-sliced onions as well

[Anonymous No.6686171]

>>6686144
>>6686148
just use a fucking knife instead of destroying your garlic.

[Anonymous No.6686176]

>>6686171
Gordon Ramsay uses one

What now faggot

[Anonymous No.6686191]

>>6686171
>peel garlic
>cut it in thin strips
>turn 90° and chop again
>risk cutting nails/fingers because clove is small
>garlic pieces stuck to knife blade
>use finger to scrape them off
>now they're stuck to finger
>use knife
>endless loop
Yeah a knife is so much better

[Anonymous No.6686194]

>>6686135
A good garlic press is a godsend when you're cooking in bulk.

[Anonymous No.6686199]

>>6686135
The egg rack in your refrigerator.
You don't need to refrigerate eggs.

[Anonymous No.6686215]

>>6686171

Lol wtf mincing garlic is a fucking cunt

Why would I do that when smashing it provides the same exact flavor and the texture difference between smashed and minced garlic is indistinguishable in most dishes

>I want people to have to put more effort into doing simple kitchen tasks because I do and that makes me a top tier chef

just stop

[Anonymous No.6686217]

>>6686215
>smashing it provides the same exact flavor and the texture difference between smashed and minced garlic is indistinguishable in most dishes

not true btw

[Anonymous No.6686402]

A garlic press is good if you're either a noob or your hands are famous and you have a team of dish washers like Gordon Ramsay. Crush that shit under your knife. It's quick and easy.

[Anonymous No.6686407]

[Anonymous No.6686408]

[Anonymous No.6686418]

>>6686171
A minced garlic releases its flavor differently from a crushed one, and I often hear that crushed is preferable

[Anonymous No.6686480]

>>6686418
Crushed garlic is good for flavoring meat, where you remove it before serving. When I deal with sauces I want to actually leave my garlic in there, and I don't want big clumps of garlic floating around. So crushing is not an option

[Anonymous No.6686502]

>>6686418
I would rather crushed to minced but most of the times i dont use minced garlic.

[Anonymous No.6686505]

>>6686135
>women
>2015
>cook

[Anonymous No.6686521]

>>6686191
>>6686215
>>6686418

Up your knife skills guys.

Mincing garlic is easy, just need to use the right type of knife. You want one of those santoku knives (a curved one if you can't sharpen it).

What you're going to have to do as a beginner is lay the front edge of the knife on the cutting board so it's pretty much resting on it's point.

You'll want the fingers holding the garlic to be in contact with the knife, but above the edge. You can slightly angle the blade away from the fingers for extra safety.

After that it's just like using a paper cutter. Cut the garlic the entire way through, rotate 90 degrees, then go again. If you want it very fine, you can mince the piles even further. This method is very useful for making extremely thin cuts which is good for an even distribution of garlic flavor.

And if the garlic gets sticky, just add a few drops of water.

[Anonymous No.6686526]

>>6686135
You can make spaghetti for mice with that

[Anonymous No.6686529]

>>6686171
Crushed garlic literally releases more flavour, plus your fingers dont stink

[Anonymous No.6686533]

>>6686529
Nah, minced garlic is better dude.

[Anonymous No.6686551]

>>6686135
True
>>6686166
Moron
>>6686171
This
>>6686176
FU
>>6686194
Probably
>>6686199
Yep
>>6686418
LOL

Pic related.
Granulated Knoblauch Master Race

[Anonymous No.6686567]

>>6686551
hehe nice post
hey im kinda new to this site how do you upvote posts? thanks

[Anonymous No.6686580]

>>6686567
Just register and buy 4chin platinum account.

[Anonymous No.6686582]

>>6686135
I have one of these. Sometimes I use it when I'm feeling lazy and want several pieces of garlic going in a dish.

As for other useless kitchen gadgets, I would like to mention a fucking tea ball. I went to a friend's place a couple weeks ago and he's just getting into tea. He asked if I wanted some and put a bit of whatever was meant to be tea into one. After a few minutes he pulled it out and the leaves had swollen to tightly fill the entire cavity. To make matters worse, it hardly even tasted like tea when I did get the drink.

[Anonymous No.6686586]

>>6686551
>Probably
I once made a huge batch of curry paste to freeze and ended up using something like 40 cloves of garlic; I'd have gotten fucking carpal tunnel doing that by hand.

[Anonymous No.6686643]

>>6686521
lol, are you trying to convince people this is easier than using a garlic press?

>just put in a bunch of time practicing
>buy a special knife
>sometimes need to add water
>rotate and do it again
>be careful, you might cut yourself
>don't worry, females love when a guys fingers smell of old garlic
>throw away that tool that does the same job in a fraction of a second

[Anonymous No.6686681]

>>6686643
Quality things take time.

And I can go through an entire bulb with this method using maybe only an extra 5 mins compared to a garlic crusher.

But, the flavor is unmatched. Mincing the garlic well results in an even garlic taste and releases more of those sulfur compounds which are good for your health.

[Anonymous No.6686689]

If you don't want to have this gadget but still want crushed garlic there's a simple way of doing it with a knife https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqHtkynh364

I used to do it with mortar and pestle but this is easier.

[Anonymous No.6686693]

>>6686135
I use these for cracking open nuts, never used them as a garlic press.

[Anonymous No.6686717]

>>6686586
OK. My bad.

You are right.

[Anonymous No.6686719]

>>6686176
Gordon Ramsay is a meme cook, and food television is always shilling for bullshit equipment and ingredients.
>>6686191
>risk cutting nails/fingers
How fucking clumsy are you?

[Anonymous No.6686733]

>>6686586
>40 cloves of garlic
I want to learn your secrets.

[Anonymous No.6686742]

>>6686689
>What the fuck is his knife made of? Rubber? Look at it flippin and floppin

[Anonymous No.6686752]

>>6686733
No secret; I just octupled the recipe, omitted the main ingredient and reduced the gravy to almost a paste. That way It freezes better and whenever I want curry I can just pop some gravy into a pan with water and add meat to simmer once it's reconstituted.

[Anonymous No.6686757]

>>6686135
I guess you only ever cook small meals for one person

[Anonymous No.6686769]

>>6686135
i used ot use one of these all the time but my food kept coming out tasting like shit... i realized that a garlic press decimates garlic and the shit that comes out is too fine and too shitty to use.. which is strange because blended garlic doesn't even taste as bad as pressed garlic.. i think it has to do with the crushing and extruding... if you use on of of these your food tastes like shit...

[Anonymous No.6686803]

>>6686135
Not useless, actually detrimental to your cooking. It's a surefire way to make your garlic taste like shit.

[Anonymous No.6686830]

>>6686199
seriously? i thought they needed to be refrigerated. wouldnt it reduce the rate at which it spoils?

[Anonymous No.6686848]

>>6686830
murrican eggs from the grocery store need to be refridgerated if youre not gonna use them in a couple days

[Anonymous No.6686855]

>>6686144
>>6686148

but chopping up garlic takes barely any fucking time and it tastes marginally better

>>6686176

that doesnt mean anything..

>>6686191

this is pretty embarassing, made me laugh atleast

>>6686529

cushed garlic also makes you smell FAR worse


this should solve it:

http://www.seriouseats.com/2015/01/how-to-mince-chop-garlic-microplane-vs-garlic-press.html

>>6686551

>granulated garlic
>German poster

vomit.exe

[Anonymous No.6686859]

>>6686855
everyone hates when faggots post like this and don't read it

[Anonymous No.6686862]

>>6686803

this is true to some extent

[Anonymous No.6686867]

>>6686859

are you retarded? I read this through twice on diff occations and I very much know what it says. I don't look down on people using garlic presses, I just don't like the overwhelming flavour (as mentioned in the article) and the fact that it makes your breath smell worse. suck a fucking dick, fool

[Anonymous No.6686871]

>>6686867
you posted like a faggot. look at what your post looks like and then fucking kill yourself

[Anonymous No.6686873]

>>6686830
Naw, cooling and heatign from sitting in the door speeds up how fast the egg sack releases from the shell, allowing air to permeate and spoil the egg.

[Anonymous No.6686875]

[Anonymous No.6686888]

>>6686875
The horror....

[Anonymous No.6686893]

>>6686875
Is it so bad? Should be just Garlic in salt water.

[Anonymous No.6686896]

>>6686893
have you ever had it? it's bitter like almonds

[Anonymous No.6686899]

>>6686719
>anything I don't like is a meme

[Anonymous No.6686903]

>>6686875

this shit is the bomb
use it all the time
sent all my garlic presses to Russia where they still enjoy stupid useless things

[Anonymous No.6686929]

>>6686875
My life is so much easier since I started using pic related. I still use fresh garlic too sometimes but I throw the ready minced stuff into everything.

[Anonymous No.6686962]

>>6686586
That's what a food processor is for, with the added bonus that you can use it to mince things that are not garlic

[Anonymous No.6687003]

>>6686871

>it looks retarded

you're supposed to read it, not look at it. it's not supposed to be aesthetic, it's just words.

this is pretty pathetic by the way.

[Anonymous No.6687011]

[Anonymous No.6687016]

>>6687003
no its not

stop posting like this

everyone hates you

you dont have to respond to every post at once

why the fuck do you hit enter so much

do you know what a paragraph is

what the fuck is wrong with you

[Anonymous No.6687020]

[Anonymous No.6687038]

>>6687011
thats for finding lice in your hair

[Anonymous No.6687042]

>>6687038
Maybe the head-lice in your third world nation grow that large, but normal people need a fine one.

[Anonymous No.6687044]

>>6687042
how do you know what the scale of that picture is its on a plain white background

[Anonymous No.6687050]

>>6687044
The holes punched for shelf hooks are standardized.

[Anonymous No.6687054]

>>6686681
But the point is the garlic press is not useless. It does a difficult job easier and more efficiently.

Sure, we could all buy expensive knifes for different jobs and spend time mastering knife skills, or we could buy simple tools for the jobs we do most frequently.

Hence:
>garlic press
>potato peeler
>mandolin slicer
>food processor
>cheese grater
>lots of other things

Sure, (special knife)+(skill) could accomplish what these tools do...but many prefer efficiency

[Anonymous No.6687057]

>>6686191
Use kosher salt. It cuts down on the sticky and gives you texture to cut.

[Anonymous No.6687061]

>>6687057
But my religion prohibits the use of religiously prepared ingredients.

[Anonymous No.6687064]

>>6687061
Ya don't know what kosher salt is brah.

[Anonymous No.6687070]

>>6687054
Just an FYI, a santoku or something (I use a nakiri because I like a squared-off blade) isn't JUST for garlic; any vegetable or light meat prep can be done with it.

[Anonymous No.6687078]

>>6687064
Did you mean coarse salt? sea salt? flake salt?

[Anonymous No.6687089]

>>6687078
It's basically coarse salt I think. Used to remove surface blood from kosher meat hence the title.
Doesn't actually have anything to do with kosher food apart from that.
Afaik every other country apart from Israel and America don't call it that but I could be wrong.

[Anonymous No.6687259]

[Anonymous No.6687427]

salad spinner

[Anonymous No.6687448]

>>6686144
>>6686148
>>6686176
>>6686643
>>6687054
morons or low quality b8
probably all b8
these threads are all stupid, exactly the same, and we have them all the time.
cancer pls go

[Anonymous No.6687458]

>>6687448
>these threads are all stupid, exactly the same, and we have them all the time.

That covers about 80% of the threads on this board really.

[Anonymous No.6687464]

>>6687458
Exactly, and we should be ashamed of ourselves.

[Anonymous No.6687470]

>>6687427
Really? I hate wet lettuce.

[Anonymous No.6687478]

>>6686199
fresh eggs straight from the chicken's ass don't because there's a protective film on them called cuticle. but in the US it is washed off. so amerifags do need to keep eggs refrigerated.

[Anonymous No.6687556]

Garlic presses are not useless because their function is not to mince garlic. To mince garlic obviously use a knife, but a garlic press creates almost a paste, which releases a lot of the garlic's essential oils. This is good for marinades or sauces where you want the garlic to essentially disappear into the sauce.

[Anonymous No.6687618]

> 2015
> not microplaning your garlic

[Anonymous No.6689596]

>>6687427
Definitely lower on the list, but I gotta disagree. Washed greens need to be dried without smooshing it all in paper towels. It also works good for getting moisture out of potatoes.

[Anonymous No.6689599]

>>6687556
You can make a paste with your knife or mortar/pestle.

[Anonymous No.6689612]

>>6689599
Ma says I'm not allowed to use mortar and pestle

[Anonymous No.6689650]

>>6686521

>you want one of those santoku knives

Fuck off you filthy weeaboo, nobody needs some wapanese knife to handle garlic, just please go and fucking kill yourself you dirt fucking weeaboo.

[Anonymous No.6689732]

I remember a chick telling me that I was crazy for slamming cloves of garlic against my knife, she though I was going to cut my hand open.
Then proceeded to use that piece of trash, and throw away two thirds of the leftover clove. Also took 2 minutes to peel each one.