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?
This is not frivolous.
That's "productivist speak," tbh.
Just because you're not a farmer in India does not mean that this is "frivolous."
Idk, sorry, I don't mean to go off-topic, but I think that too many people see their hobbies or pet peeves as "having no point," but that's not a good mental headspace to be in.
Bizden düzinelerce var! Düzinelerce!
im german tho :deeper-sadness:
Evet.
But unfortunately, I don't know the language. I grew up learning Spanish since I'm Latino but almost forgot it as soon as I knew it and now I'm re-learning that language.
Still, Turkey was a big part of my childhood.
The brand I can buy near me don't taste no good. I've had it good before too so its not just preference. I probably don't know how to make it right though.
Check out the Aeropress, sort of a cross between French press and a large syringe. Lots of different techniques and really good coffee.
shout out to my loose leaf tea chads enjoying their nightly cup of Egyptian chamomile while malding coffee drinkers gnash their teeth without a tasty evening sleep-conducive beverage to enjoy
Not frivolous but two things that are definitely bougie as shit that you could take out of my cold dead hands are my espresso machine and my sous vide stick. First is self explanatory, the second one I eat a lot of fish and it’s way cheaper frozen in bulk. It usually comes in individually wrapped portions which can be chucked straight into a 145 degree bath and eaten right out of the pouch
Sous Vide stick is a god. I also throw in spices in the bag so they cook directly too. Melting chocolate? So goddamn easy I cry.
I also kept breaking mine so I bought a fully metal pour over and use that instead. I highly recommend. You aren't gonna break it and pour over makes the coffee have a neat texture I enjoy
Yeah, pour over is great because it doesn't take a lot of space, is easy to clean, and makes nice coffee
You could get an aeropress or one of these things https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07RV3JJBG/
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.
If you're worried about breaking something, you could get a cezve/ibrik or a mokapot, either of those are pretty indestructible. But that might not work with your workflow for french press, since these are stovetop
I think the glass is very pretty and I can find them or $5-10 at the thrift store usually. Although this is starting to become like the discworld bit about the boots...
I don't have a microwave any more (I do but it's in the basement somewhere.) It can be a little inconvenient but I wouldn't have space for my ninja foodi if I had it out. I will defend that foodie with all the knives in my kitchen. It does everything, I'm even learning to bake in it.
