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Pampered Chef has a wonderful garlic press! Very ...

2011-09-15T12:32:14.439-07:00

Pampered Chef has a wonderful garlic press! Very easy to clean - you don't even have to peel the garlic first. It is awesome!

congrats! keep up the good work/this is a great pr...

2011-04-09T07:29:17.133-07:00

congrats! keep up the good work/this is a great presentation.

Commercial Kitchen Equipment

I grab half sheet pans (perforated and non-perfora...

2010-06-01T11:53:49.247-07:00

I grab half sheet pans (perforated and non-perforated) from the restaurant supply up here - because I can never have enough surfaces to bake on. Besides, *someone* keeps cooking greasy bacon on my cookie sheets without foil, forever burning them, so I need unadulterated baking sheets for my delicates, like choux pastry!

Wonderful post! I would add a food sanitizer espe...

2010-06-01T05:43:01.425-07:00

Wonderful post! I would add a food sanitizer especially important for children and the elderly - anything we can do to fight harmful bacteria as a chef is important.

Hi, Erika. Congrats on this great new page! Let me...

2010-05-30T11:06:30.016-07:00

Hi, Erika. Congrats on this great new page! Let me know what you decide on the immersion blender front. I make a ton of soups and home-made pesto-type sauces using all manner of green things. Something I could dip into a pan to ease the transfer mess would be wonerful.

Actually, I don't use a garlic press these day...

2010-05-29T07:55:41.786-07:00

Actually, I don't use a garlic press these days - I also got frustrated trying to clean them out in the old days, and now I just chop with a knife and hope for the best. In fact, one of the reasons I was so excited about this guest post is that I only have two of the things on the list - immersion blender, commercial-grade nonstick pans - and my beloved immersion blender is on its last legs.

I have 6 of these 10. I have had several garlic p...

2010-05-29T07:41:13.942-07:00

I have 6 of these 10.

I have had several garlic presses over the decades, and none of them worked well, so I gave up on them. Most of the garlic seemed to stick in the press (imho). I might have to revisit that topic...Erika, do you have one you recommend?