With a little parcel from Rome arriving earlier this year (thanks to my dear friend Hande) came a perhaps inconspicuous but nevertheless very useful tool, it has become indispensable in my kitchen and I use it – I kid you not – almost once every week. Know it? Have it? Use it? What for?
May 7th,
2008
I believe this is to make the sspecific structure on gnocchi...
what do you use it for?
May 7th,
2008
Gnocchi?
I don't have this tool... I simply use a fork :o)
May 7th,
2008
hmmm... to roll gnocci?
May 7th,
2008
If have seen something like this on our last trip to Verona, but don't know its name. You have been making a lot of Gnocchi lately, haven't you?
May 7th,
2008
A butter ball maker?
May 7th,
2008
I recognize it, but I'll give others a chance. ;)
May 7th,
2008
Yes, I know it. It's called a "riga-gnocchi" and it is used to create those furrows (lines) on your handmade, well, gnocchi. You form them with your palms (or whichever technique you prefer) and roll them gently over the grooved surface. Enhances the gnocchi-salsa-adhesion!
May 7th,
2008
Have it and use it - a gnocchi board :-)
May 7th,
2008
i bought one these in italy when i was last there, to make gnocchi...absolutely fabulous...wow, you make gnocchi so often?
May 7th,
2008
i would say it's for making gnocci, although i have always been too lazy to make my own... my soap dish don't look dissimilar, though ;-)
May 7th,
2008
i think it's a butter ball roller
May 7th,
2008
it's a pasta board.
May 7th,
2008
My first thought was: this is a wash board - but I cannot imagine, that a wash board might be useful in the kitchen?
Now I think, you need it for preparing a special kind of Italian food - and I am sure you will introduce us a new recipe, where you can explain your new tool, right?
May 8th,
2008
First idea: butter ball roller. But I can’t imagine that you roll your butter every week (and Hande sends it from italy), so: gnocchi board (never heard of).
May 8th,
2008
I recognized it instantly as a gnocchi paddle! But do you really make gnocchi every week? If so, I'd love to live in your house!
May 8th,
2008
It is most definitely a gnocchi maker.
May 8th,
2008
you have to reveal us the recipe of your gnocchi if it really is so delicious that you make it every week. it must be;)
May 10th,
2008
LudmillaB is right, it' called Rigagnocchi and it's a board to give them their traditional pattern. Of course an ordinary fork would do just fine, but this neat little tool makes the whole procedure so much more fun ;)
May 17th,
2008
I'd love to get one of those, but I have never seen something similar in the US.
The healthiest food may be your family’s ancestral diet.
have been taking pictures of their food for almost 40 years.
that double dipping is unhygienic and gross.
if you're a supertaster?
so which country has the worst food?
May 7th,
2008
I could imagine using it to transfer things from a cutting board to a pan, but I'm wondering what you use it for.