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Question of the week:
What’s a kitchen tool or appliance you can’t live without as a vegan cook?
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My electric pressure cooker. It allows me, the human goblin tornado, to approximate wfpb food with little effort and expense.
Because I figured electric pressure cooker would be number one, I’m going to go with something different and say my box grater and mandoline. I find chopping with a knife annoying and grate a lot of veggies, I find it relaxing.
I’m surprised to learn this about you! I always figured you were a food processor kind of guy.
I use both lol, depends on time. If I’m in the middle of work its the processor, if its relaxing time its the grater
So i definitely prefer using a knife but my wife did get me a mandolin and the thing I’ll say is i do love the speed and consistency. If i want something looking real nice i use the mandolin so everything is evenly cut and people think i have master level knife skills until i tell them i ‘cheated’. I do think it’s interesting how many people will notice and comment on the uniformity of things being diced
You know, 16 years ago I would have also highly ranked my pressure cooker (mine was not electric). Being able to go from dry beans to meal in less than an hour was fantastic. But when my daughter was born I just surrendered to canned beans out of necessity, so I haven’t used it in years. Actually that’s not true, I just don’t use the lid, the pot is great for making soups, etc.
Nothing wrong with canned beans!
They aren’t the right solution for me, but it’s a matter of a total lack of object permanence and planning ability, lol.