Alton Brown has slammed single-purpose cooking gadgets to high heaven, but they're not all bad.
. Eventually, I gave in, but pressed my garlic furtively, in shame ― even as it saved time chopping and spared me from the lingering smell of garlic long into the evening.Last year, early in the pandemic, I ended up with two kids and a subscription to a stone fruit. Each week, I picked up pounds of plump, sweet Washington cherries. My toddlers, not yet old enough to swiftly remove the pits with their tongues and spit them out, whined as they waited.
These things can truly have a measurable effect on your happiness. Consider the difference between my first time shucking oysters ― which involved a screwdriver and, very nearly, a trip to the emergency room ― and today, when I regularly pick up a dozen for at-home happy hour, making quick work of them with my shucking knife.
I understand Brown’s stance on unitaskers, but it papers over how real home cooks value their time and effort. Just because I can easily use a knife to carve a mango into a rose doesn’t mean someone else who eats many more mangoes wants to do that . For them, there is a.
, evict Alton’s voice from your brain and buy these tools ― or whichever ones make your life easier and tastier.HuffPost may receive a share from purchases made via links on this page. Prices and availability subject to change.This simple tool fits easily in a drawer, comes apart for washing and makes quick enough work of cherries that I can stay ahead of the complaints from hungry preschoolers.
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