Before it was always so sandy and icky yucky so I would buy a french press. Now, I got the brand of coffee with a course grind so it doesn't fall through my fine mesh strainer too much and shittify my coffee—side note, 'enshittify' feels overwrought; 'shittify' would already mean 'to become shit'—so now I get to sit high on my horse for not needing another unitasker in my itty bitty baby sized kitchen. AND I get to drink good coffee while I do it.
One of my thought experiments is to envision the minimum set of cooking supplies I would need to make all of my repertoire of foods. The only 'extras' that feel really essential to me are my pressure cooker and a peeler.
Recently, my whisk broke again and I got a new one that's just a single piece of metal from the secondhand shop. I really like it a lot. I want to get a little chef hat and a fake moustache so I can really get into my little chefy vibes. The only thing I miss about starting laser hair removal is I cannot have a little rakish moustache every once in a while. I teach little guys so sometimes I would wear a mask for a week and come back with a moustache and whenever I wear a mask my students are like 'oooooh what they got cookin' under there?'
What are your kitchen bugboos? What are the 'frivolous' things you will defend doing/having?
My frivolity is coffee in the opposite (but also not opposite) direction: I grind my own beans, not with a fancy electric ceramic burr but with a cast iron hand grinder from the 1970s. I use a Melitta pour over filter because they’re so cheap, made of ABS plastic so won’t break ever. I have one I inherited from my parents; it’s likely 30 years old. r/BIFL eat your heart out. It’s probably full of cancer juice. I just want good coffee and don’t want to fall into the coffee gadget black hole.
I am very scared to do anything with boiling and plastic.