Episode 549: Box Graters
Spilled Milk
Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Matthew and I'm Molly and this is spilled milk the show where we cook something delicious |
| 0:08.2 | eat it all and you can't have any today thanks to host Molly yeah that's me we are |
| 0:14.4 | talking about box graders did this this fell out of the salad spinner episode I think |
| 0:18.7 | right we're spinning some salad and a box girl fell out of it cut salad spinners are |
| 0:23.6 | magical it's like another one of those one of those quantum mechanical mishaps like |
| 0:27.7 | the the the fabric multidimensions the fabric of the the multiverse multiverse the fabric |
| 0:34.0 | of the multiverse multiverse okay it's right if you haven't noticed it is yeah have you |
| 0:39.8 | read the sea of tranquility no oh so it's kind of about the multiverse okay I start |
| 0:45.4 | easily it's Emily St. John Mandel's latest okay I should read that you should do she |
| 0:50.4 | have any other books just kidding okay okay I'm going to start us off please I don't |
| 0:56.6 | think I have ever lived in a home without a box grater my entire life me neither so my |
| 1:02.7 | parents had a box grater when I was growing up and it was really sharp like it was not what |
| 1:07.8 | it had been made of steel like I still yeah it was not shiny it was not stainless it would |
| 1:13.2 | rust if you if you didn't wash it quickly enough so you can imagine whatever that was like |
| 1:18.4 | that's that's the sharp metal right that's the good metal I know what you mean I feel like |
| 1:23.9 | we may have had that as well I remember I remember like growing up our box grater not being |
| 1:29.0 | shiny like this and I also remember the sound it made a particular sound when you graded like a |
| 1:37.0 | carrot or something against the large grading oh yeah I love that sound that was a bit different |
| 1:42.2 | from the sound that my grater makes now it was like a little bit of a tinier sound interesting |
| 1:48.5 | anyway I think my mom still has this box grater I didn't stop over an |
| 1:53.7 | ask but it is the best box grater I've ever encountered and that's right you do occasionally text |
| 2:01.0 | yeah I'm sure okay in my senior year of college I lived in an apartment for the first time okay |
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