Hashmarked Potato Masher
The only thing better than getting your hands on a fancy new kitchen gadget is realizing that you can use an old kitchen gadget to do the same job. (Thus saving you $$ to buy more new kitchen gadgets.)
Enter the potato masher. Not only does it do its eponymous job, it mashes anything else that’s soft enough to give way to its crushing hash marks: chickpeas, bananas, avocadoes. Don’t want to get your food processor garlicky and oily? Make hummus with a potato masher. Don’t want to have a line across your palm as a result of trying to smush bananas for banana bread? Use a potato masher. (And you can just keep right on using it to stir the batter.) Want silky-smooth guacamole? Turn skinned avocado halves into green cream with a potato-turned-avocado masher.
Potato mashers also work wonders with cooked and softened fruits like apples (apples + masher = applesauce), various berries (blueberries + masher = jam) and tomatoes (tomatoes + masher = stewed tomatoes). And don’t forget about them when you want to imprint marks on the top of bread or piecrust — depending on what kind of pattern your masher has, you might be able to use the finished product as a tic-tac-toe board! (With raisins and peanuts as the markers.)
Huh. Maybe we shouldn’t call them “potato” mashers any more — maybe they should be “all-purpose” mashers.
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Tags: applesauce, banana bread, guacamole, hummus, jam, kitchen tool, potato masher
