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By: annuaire de la gastronomie

annuaire de la gastronomie — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:45:19 +0000

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By: Sandra

Sandra — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:08:20 +0000

I’ve found that the best thing to break up ground beef while cooking is a potato masher (the kind that looks like a wiggly line.) Works great every time!

By: Tee

Tee — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:41:08 +0000

dick: ...a plastic thing with a whirligig shape on the bottom of a handle, the sole purpose of which is to break up ground meat when browning it. It works ten times better than a fork.

I'm going to have to look for that thing maybe at Bed, Bath and Beyond or some such store. That sounds wonderful, since I usually use the bottom edge of a plastic spatula to break up hamburger now (when I cook, that is). That works, but this other item sounds much more effective.

By: LinnieGayl

LinnieGayl — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 02:10:28 +0000

Missie, I don’t make pies anymore so that pie rim would be wasted on me, but it definitely would have come in handy in the past.

A lasagna cutter/server sounds very useful. I’m going to have to look for one of those, because I pretty much butcher my lasagna when I cut it

By: Missie

Missie — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 01:31:31 +0000

LOVE my microplane. Well worth it, but I think I use mine just a smidge more than you do, Linnie

And I’m with you — Dick, that thing to break up ground meat does sound quite intriguing.

Several years ago, my mother-in-law gifted me with a little min-processor/chopper thing that I have gradually come to use more and more often. I’ve seen similar models on sale for $20 or less.

I also really enjoy my pastry wheel — much easier than trimming my pastry with a knife, and it’s also handy for cutting other kinds of dough, as well, such as flour tortillas and homemade noodles and what not. Ditto my hand-held pastry cutter — much easier than using 2 dull knives.

I think the microplane was $20, but worth it for me, as it otherwise takes me about 45 mintues to zest an orange. The pastry wheel and pastry cutter were under $10, I think.

And after years of futzing with trying to make an aluminum foil rim for my pie crusts, I “invested” all of $5 in an aluminum pie rim — I use it every time I bake pumpkin and other similar pies.

I also found some gadgets reduced for clearance sale at the bargain price of $1 each and I really enjoy them — a lasagna cutter/server and two very serious 3-pronged meat fork things.

By: LinnieGayl

LinnieGayl — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:16:29 +0000

Dick, I’ve never even thought of using my zester thing on fresh ginger, but that’s brilliant (especially since I have a big hunk of ginger in my refrigerator right now).

That thing to break up ground meat sounds interesting. That’s one I haven’t heard of.

By: dick

dick — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:53:57 +0000

I don’t know how expensive either gadget was, because my wife purchased them, but since I do most of the cooking since I’m retired and my wife is not, I’m the one who uses them. I too have a zester thingio which I use a lot, especially for fresh ginger. But she also bought a plastic thing with a whirligig shape on the bottom of a handle, the sole purpose of which is to break up ground meat when browning it. It works ten times better than a fork. I think she bought it at a Pampered Chef party.