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[–] 9 points 11 months ago (7 children)

I made spaetzle for the first time at Thanksgiving. It was spaetzle and green beans with bacon in a garlic butter sauce.

It was delicious but almost killed me making it. I didn't have a colander(I think it got thrown out last time I moved) so tried to use a strainer, the holes were too small and wouldn't work. I ended up using a Manual lemon juicer. My girlfriend misread the recipe and made 20 servings of the batter.

By the time I dinner was ready I was barely able to lift my fork from trying to make all the spaetzle.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    I have something similar to this thing.

    With that I make spätzle quite often because it is fast enough to do it on a weeknight. I've seen people do it with a colander, but that seems a bit fiddly... And I don't even want to imagine what you went through with the strainer.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah... That would of made things so much easier. I used basically something like this https://a.co/d/dBsDis5

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I imagine that must have taken ages to do.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Took about 2 hours just to make the spaetzle... I will say I took 3 10 minute breaks because of how sore my arm got. Bowl of batter, scoop 1-2 spoon fulls, then squeeze till no more came out. Had to be careful though, because by time about 3 squeezes worth were in the oil the first squeezer worth was already cooked so we then had to alternate squeezing and picking them out with a slotted spatula.

    The recipe I found on the internet was for 10 servings but there was only 3 of us so we I told my girlfriend to cut it in half. Somehow there was a miscommunication and instead of halving it, she doubled it.

    We both loved the final result but agreed to never make it again due to the effort it took.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    if you run into the same problem again: use a soaking wet cutting board and knife. use the back of the knife to push single spaetzle over the board into hot water. dont forget to re-wet before putting the next load onto the board.

    obviously the thing OP suggested is much better. but i am certain you make better progress than with a juicer.

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