Tool of the Week: The Microplane Premium Classic Series Zester/Grater
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IMO, the key to using a tool on a regular basis is that it should make you smile every time you look at it.
I have a potato masher like that. Actually, it’s a pastry cutter named Pastry Pal, but I thought it was a potato masher when I bought it. Slightly bent tines, a bright blue soft plastic handle, perfect to work out your angst by mashing some spuds.
Plus, it made me happy just to open the drawer and see it. This was in my whatever’s-on-sale-at-KMart days, so it stood out. Plus, I felt a bit subversive, and if you’ve been reading BehindTheKnife.com for any amount of time, you know that this vein runs pretty deep.
Anyway, a neighbor saw me use it one day, and next Thanksgiving asked to borrow it. I gave it to her, but she forgot to give it back. The next time I bought potatoes with the express purpose of mashing them, no Pastry Pal! I tore up the kitchen looking for it.
Then I remembered. I knocked on the door.
She wasn’t home. I sorrowfully consumed my unmashed potatoes and in my stupor, forgot about the masher.
Until the next time. The cycle repeated itself a few times, until one day when I was about to move 1000 miles away. This time, the planets aligned: I remembered the Pastry Pal, and she happened to be home. When I asked her for it, she got a sheepish look on her face.
She reluctantly gave it back. It almost felt like she was giving me my own going-away present.
I still have the Pastry Pal, but I learned my lesson. Never again will I make the mistake of having anyone see me actually use it.
And I still smile when I look at it, though these days it has some hot competition since two Microplane Premium Classic Series Zester/Graters with sherbet-color handles arrived here at the BehindTheKnife.com offices. Orange and lime. So I’ve been grinning like a fool lately.
But alas, they are not mine to keep. Instead, YOU could be the lucky winner of one of them as the featured Tool of the Week. Yes, this week there will be two winners. And unless you plead a pretty strong case, I’m choosing which color you get.
Got your own subversive tool/borrow-happy neighbor stories? Leave a comment about it — or anything else — below and you could win a brand-new unborrowed Microplane Premium Classic Series Zester/Grater of your very own.
I’m not sure if you’ll decide to use it for anything but its original intention, but if you win, you could give it a try.
At the very least, I dare you not to smile when you look at them. And you just may decide to do your zesting and grating in private.
Win one!
Two lucky BehindTheKnife.com readers will win a Microplane Premium Classic Series Zester/Grater FREE, a $15 value. Just leave a comment below by Friday November 20th, 11:59 pm. Check our contest rules
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