How to Make Your Own Spaetzle Maker
Fans of The Food Network's Alton Brown know that he despises "unitaskers"---those kitchen gadgets that only perform one job. If you are experimenting with spaetzle for the first time, you may want to keep Alton's unitasker policy in mind and improvise with a utensil you already have in the kitchen. To make spaetzle, you need to be able to drop small dollops of batter into boiling water. Almost any kitchen gadget with small holes in it will work. Does this Spark an idea?
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Instructions
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Use a metal colander. A colander is a perforated strainer with small round holes. Load a small amount of spaetzle batter into the colander, and use the back of a large spoon or a rubber spatula to push batter through the holes in the colander.
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Squeeze the spaetzle batter through a potato ricer.
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Run the batter through a hand-cranked food mill. Use a disc with fairly large holes.
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Push batter across the top of a flat, metal cheese grater that has large holes.
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Put a small amount of batter on a wooden spoon or spatula and use a table knife to push small bits of batter off and into the boiling water.
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Tips & Warnings
Don't confuse a colander with a wire mesh strainer. The batter won't go through a wire strainer; the holes are too small.
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