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   The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 04:29:13 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

   Snapped a metal garlic crusher in half by accident while using it, feeling pretty badass tbh (it was old)

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     The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 08:01:05 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

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     @dev_ric metal fatigue :)

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     Ric (dev_ric@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 08:01:06 JST Ric

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     @sinbad in half? 😯

     I've popped through the mesh bit on a few, but snapping them in half is a whole other level.

     Extra strong garlic by any chance? 😆

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     The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 21:25:50 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

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     @dev_ric I’m tempted to get one of the “rocker” style ones this time because the regular basket crushers are kind of a pain to clean

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     Ric (dev_ric@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 21:25:51 JST Ric

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     @sinbad I keep buying these, because they're in 2 separate parts which makes them easy to keep clean + you use the long side of the crusher bit to scrape the garlic off and the short side to scrape the skin out (ref the pics), which keeps it all separate. They only last a couple of years of dishwasher abuse before the mesh gives in, but I've only hand washed the current one and so far it's been going for maybe 4 years now...

     https://www.josephjoseph.com/products/clean-press-garlic-crusher-green

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     Chris Ahchay (ahchay@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 23:07:25 JST Chris Ahchay

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     @sinbad @dev_ric side of a big knife does for me

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     The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 23:13:41 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

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     @ahchay @dev_ric I’ve seen that technique but our chopping boards are glass - great for cleaning but not so great for bashing

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     Chris Ahchay (ahchay@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 23:13:42 JST Chris Ahchay

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     @dev_ric @sinbad Remove? Nah, crushed and mixed does the job. Crush and then chop if you insist on tiny bits

     If in doubt, add more garlic

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     Ric (dev_ric@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 23:13:43 JST Ric

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     @ahchay @sinbad if removing the garlic again after, or roasting it in with some veg, bashed with a knife is fine. But what kind of a mad man wants to remove the garlic again?!?!?!

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     Chris Ahchay (ahchay@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 23:14:53 JST Chris Ahchay

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     @sinbad @dev_ric Ah, fair enough. I see the appeal of glass boards, but I'm too clumsy in the kitchen, they wouldn't last three minutes

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     The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jan-2025 23:23:29 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

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     @ahchay @dev_ric these have lasted for over 10 years, they’re pretty robust and don’t get the unhygienic knife grooves that plastic/wooden ones get eventually. But yeah dropping them isn’t advised 😬

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     Ric (dev_ric@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 00:37:50 JST Ric

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     @sinbad @ahchay I've always been put off of glass boards partly because I too would smash them, but also because surely they're hard on the blade? I'm already lazy on keeping up with whetstoning our knives (I do tone them before every use though) and just imagine a hard board is going to blunt them even quicker? Or be slippery to mince on etc?

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     The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jan-2025 00:37:50 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

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     @dev_ric @ahchay it’s possible it blunts the knife faster I guess but I’ll take it over trying to clean spinach juice out of the grooves of a plastic board