Drum roll please

[cjsmith]

I am now the proud owner of a second nonstick skillet* large enough to brown a pound of ground turkey. Being able to run two of those at once during a cook-for-the-week session is going to be a real win for my tender feetsies.

So far I have learned two lessons with my new skillet:

1: It takes a lot longer to cook stuff if the pan takes a lot longer to heat up.

2: Scraping the meat to one side of the pan and tilting the pan to drain off the fat is downright awkward if your skillet is slicker'n black ice. The meat keeps sliding around!

I am also the proud owner of a garlic press. I am getting more frou-frou by the day. A garlic press! *eyeroll* But by golly I am going to get over my fear of using stuff that grows in the ground as opposed to stuff that comes in jars. (I reserve the right, however, to go back to jars due to the economics imposed by waste. How fast do I have to use up a bulb of garlic?)

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*Those of you who wish to argue that my first large skillet is no longer nonstick will get a fair hearing. I've clearly eaten a lot of Teflon over the years.

Comments

[mapache]

We used to have a garlic press. At two different points in time, I think. They both broke, even the metal one. (I guess garlic is tougher than it looks.) Aside from the breakage, we decided we didn't really like pressed garlic. It pulps and makes a mess, and the garlic juice with all the tasty flavor dribbles down the garlic press instead of into the food, so we just went back to mincing it with a knife. As to how long garlic lasts, it's a long time even without any refrigeration, but it's not like we ever let it sit around long enough to find out. In our opinion, garlic is a vegetable, not a spice. ;)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I'm not as massively fond of garlic as some folks are, probably due to an ugly "overdose" in college. 'SOK. If I break a garlic press I'll buy another. I was going to say I'm probably not strong enough to break a steel garlic press, but I just broke my spatula, so I'm not placing any bets!