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* [https://kitchenuniverse.net/how-to-use-a-vegetable-peeler-mastery-of-vegetable-peeling/ Vegetable Peeler] |
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The first peeler was patented in 1916 by Carl Schoughten, a German inventor. |
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When we think of the earliest peelers, we tend to imagine old vintage aluminum |
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models with clunky handles - yet these are not even close to the most well known |
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or prolific types of modern vegetable peeler and they charge outrageous prices |
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for that reason. |
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Modern vegetable peelers generally consist of a small, handheld, rotating blade |
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used to peel a fruit or vegetable with the aid of a pointed object such as a |
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a fingernail, grapefruit spoon, and citrus zester. Usually found near the bowls |
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in which people place fruit out on display at grocery stores and farmer's markets |
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for sale. Multiple types exist but are typically differentiated by the shape of |
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their clamshells: curly-edged or straight-edged blades; serrated teeth or wavy teeth; |
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and one-piece metal construction ("Y" shaped) versus two pieces that can be disassembled |
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(usually "V" shaped). |
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A vegetable peeler is used to remove the skin or surface part of fruits and vegetables. |
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The use of a vegetable peeler has two benefits for people cooking in their kitchen. |
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On the one hand, it saves time. With a good knife, peeling an apple can take some |
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considerable time - with a peeler, you have peeled apples in seconds! Secondly, |
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some fruit and vegetable skins are not edible - so while they still need to be |
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removed before you eat the food inside, using a peeler prevents any chance that |
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your hand ends up touching them at all during the peeling process |
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(it's estimated that we touch our hands to about 1800 things each day), |
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meaning this tool avoids spreading germs around your kitchen too. |
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== Notes == |
== Notes == |
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Revision as of 11:50, 5 June 2021
A garlic press, also known as a garlic crusher, is a kitchen utensil to crush garlic cloves efficiently by forcing them through a grid of small holes, usually with some type of piston. Many garlic presses also have a device with a matching grid of blunt pins to clean out the holes.
The inventor of the garlic press is generally held to be Karl Zysset (1907–1988) founder of the Swiss kitchen utensil company Zyliss.[1][2]
Garlic presses present a convenient alternative to mincing garlic with a knife, especially because a clove of garlic can be passed through a sturdy press without even removing its peel. The peel remains in the press while the garlic is extruded out. Some sources[3] also claim that pressing with the peel on makes cleaning the press easier.
Garlic crushed by a press is generally believed[citation needed] to have a different flavor from minced garlic, more of garlic's strong flavor compounds are liberated. A few sources prefer the flavor of pressed garlic. Raw-foods chef Renée Underkoffler says "a good garlic press makes dealing with garlic a clean pleasure. Pressed garlic has a lighter, more delicate flavor than minced garlic because it excludes the bitter center stem."[4] The magazine Cook's Illustrated says "a good garlic press can break down cloves more finely and evenly than an average cook using a knife, which means better distribution of garlic flavor throughout any given dish."[5]
On the other hand, some chefs say garlic crushed in a press has an inferior flavor compared to other forms of garlic. For instance, chef Anthony Bourdain called garlic presses "abominations" and advised "don't put it through a press. I don't know what that junk is that squeezes out of the end of those things, but it ain't garlic."[6] The cookery writer Elizabeth David wrote an essay titled "Garlic Presses are Utterly Useless".[7] Alton Brown (known for his dislike of single-purpose kitchen tools) has referred to garlic presses as "useless" and without a reason to exist.[8]
Cook's Illustrated lists some additional uses for a garlic press, such as mashing other small items (including olives, capers, anchovies, ginger and canned chipotles) or pressing out small quantities of onion or shallot juice.[5]
Variations
Garlic mincers can be used to obtain fine grains of garlic too.
- a small container for the garlic cloves, sliding on top of a grater.[9]
- a glass-sized recipient featuring a grate on top of it. The lid will push the garlic cloves through the grate, cutting the garlic into slices or into small pieces, depending on the type of the grate used.[10]
- Garlic Twister, a device made of a very short cylinder, tall enough just to fit a few garlic cloves, made of two detachable parts - the top and the bottom. The two parts can rotate, cutting the garlic.[11][12]
See also
Notes
- ^ Mueller Science: 500 Schweizer Primeurs, Schweizer Erfindungen und Schweizer Entdeckungen ; abgerufen am 14. Aug. 2012
- ^ https://www.eguide.ch/en/objekt/zylyss/#:~:text=Karl%20Zysset%20(1907%E2%80%931988),to%20manufacture%20and%20distribute%20them.
- ^ For example, the Epicurious Food Dictionary Archived 2006-07-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Underkoffler, Renée (2004). Living Cuisine: The Art and Spirit of Raw Foods. Avery. ISBN 1-58333-171-9. p. 179.
- ^ a b Wu, Sandra. "Notes from Readers", Cook's Illustrated, Sept. & Oct. 2006 p. 3.
- ^ Bourdain, Anthony (2001). Kitchen Confidential. HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-093491-3. p. 81.
- ^ David, Elizabeth (2000). Is There a Nutmeg in the House?. Viking. ISBN 0-670-03033-3. p. 51.
- ^ Rothman, Wilson (27 August 2009). "Alton Brown: Kitchen Gadget Judgment Calls - Yea or Nay?". Gizmodo.com. Archived from the original on 16 September 2017. Retrieved 11 June 2018.
- ^ Microplane Garlic Mincer, CrateAndBarrel.com, Retrieved at 19 May 2017
- ^ Buy Garlic Chopper From Kleeneze. Your online shop for FoodPreparation, Kleeneze.com, Retrieved at 19 May 2017
- ^ Garlic Twister, Nextrendproducts.com, Retrieved at 19 May 2017
- ^ Product Review: NexTrend Garlic Twist, YouTube, Retrieved at 19 May 2017
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