What is the purpose of the squiggly one?
Mashing potatoes
The hard way. Use the egg beaters (aka hand mixer) instead.
I don’t eat potatoes, I’ve only made them for others at Thanksgiving so I just used a fork, but I think the people who prefer a masher say the mixer overbeats them.
It is liable to turn the potatoes into a purée and into a liquid which is absolutely terrible to serve with anything. It basically turns it into potato soup.
I remember I only made that mistake once years ago. I got lazy one day and decided to use a hand blender to mash some well cooked potatoes… it only took ten seconds to make potato soup. Then I had to make another batch of potatoes after.
Y’all are doing it wrong. There’s a happy medium and it makes the potatoes nice and fluffy.
Potato masher
Not just A potato masher, its THE potato masher. If you dont have that thick af metal wire one you have an inferior potato masher.
The opposite of true unless you’re looking for chunky or over beaten potatoes. Perforated head is vastly superior to thick wire trash. https://www.seriouseats.com/best-potato-mashers-5222111
Except you cant use that one to dothe crumbly ground beef trick. They are good if you only ever use them to mash potatoes.
Human agony and self torture
CPT
One of ours gets stuck on the 3 different sets of measuring cups. Why do we have 3 full sets? No one knows!
Because having one means you have to wash that pile of dishes at the bottom of the sink.
Because eventually you’ll break it lose one of the cups and then have 3 incomplete sets that will hopefully provide a full set between them.
You could just buy a utensil crock and never have to worry about it again.
Also box graters go in a cabinet, if you don’t have cabinet space and just keep it in a drawer then get a flat grater (it’s not like you use the other sides of the box grater anyway).
For me it’s the bakery gloves
What are bakery gloves? I’ve never heard of that before, and Google was not helpful.
Oven mitts
Literally had this 15 mins ago
Praise Anoia
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Mine is a collection of antique dental instruments.
I won’t tell you why, but I will say that it puts the lotion on its skin.
A fuckin set of tongs that has some latching mechanism that doesn’t work so they stay permanently agape.
Burger patty press still in the cardboard
Don’t forget the tongs that’s missing the lock thing and somehow ends up standing up wide open.
I threw an entire draw of utensils across the room because of one of those fuckers.
don’t do that. dm me but don’t do that
Mine is pineapple corer and unnecessarily large can opener
Ineffective ass potato masher.
A ricer is the ‘Yes chef’ way to do it, but I use this exact masher, when I do it I get lumpy mashed potatoes, but for whatever reason why my 10yr uses it they are silky smooth.
What would you recommend for mashing ass-potatoes?
Have you heard about our Lord and Savior the poop knife?
For ass potatoes you need a ricer.
Kinda depends how you like your potatoes. I generally like them a little lumpy, but I think the twelve or so of us in the lumpy crew nationwide lose that fight every Thanksgiving.
But! The ineffective ass potato masher does a real good job of breaking up ground meat in to super tiny bits in the pan for stuff like Taco meat.
I use a perforated masher. It’s like the middle ground between this and a ricer.
I’m in the lumpy potato crew! Some texture makes them so much nicer. Also, don’t add so much milk: I want to taste potatoes
…… of course I also tend to leave the skins in, plus there may be garlic or caramelized onions
Head of garlic in to 2 sticks of butter on the stove, in to the potatoes when they’re ready. Skins and all.
Nommmmmm
Yum, can practically taste that already!
Ineffective potato masher is an amazing taco meat maker. And sometimes you want lumpy potatoes, like you said. I prefer smooth but something like bangers and mash? It just makes it feel more a substantial if there’s lumps.
The professionals use a potato ricer. Very fast, no lumps, and no risk of accidently making a glue, but you have to buy a potato rice, and change is scary.
Hand mixer, like a true redneck
I know I wouldn’t recommend one of those electric hand mixers, like the one that just has a tiny blade it spins fast (the ones that spin two “interlocking” things might do decently). The potatoes are too thick and the blades just end up pushing the potatoes away and spinning uselessly. I’d take the one pictured over that kind.
And tbh, I like that style because you can still get good smooth mashed potatoes and the masher is easier to clean vs the grid style ones. Though for either of them, the trick is to dip it into the dish water and shake it around (clear out fragile stuff first obviously).
(the ones that spin two “interlocking” things might do decently)
Can confirm, they do.
Mine is measuring cups that stack weird.
Why the hell are they in the same drawer?
Found the American :)
So what? I also have a scale which is in no way better than using a measuring cup.
I just found the American, no mention of wether that’s a bad thing. It just makes your nation unique, that you use measuring cups.
I spot people from other countries all the time and leave it uncommented. The simple fact is that every culture does things their own way. I find using a scales tedious. Using cups means you don’t have to bother with adding or removing. You just fill the cup to the mark or the top if its that kind of cup. I do have a scale but its most often used for portioning meat.
Do measuring cups not exist outside of America?
While there are measuring cups, they aren’t a set of cups of fixed volume, like American measuring cups, but rather like beakers with markings on them.
Our baking recipes are also based on the mass of ingredients rather than volume, which frustrates me whenever I see US-based recipes who call out for the “cup” measurement instead of mentioning the amount of grams one needs.
That’s wild! TIL!
I’ve cooked using both methods. Both systems are childishly easy to understand but some people have to put their noses in the air about one or the other.
We typically use a kitchen scale
The spatula is a classic one
The apartment I bought had cabinets with fake, decorative drawers on them. Except it turned out that one of those drawers wasn’t decorative. It was just stuck.
Inside there was a full set of silverware (as in literal silver) from the 60’s complete with the original receipt. It’s worth thousands of dollars. I guess whoever lived there before me was in no condition to pack and the people who packed didn’t know about the silver…
Psh when I open random stuck drawers all I find is jars of teeth
Do you have any idea what jars of teeth go for these days???
Better sell within the next six years, though, according to Japan…
Bro eating good tonight
Gonna pull extra hard on my fake drawers tonight.
I don’t think “audio off” was ever a reason.
