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Spilled Milk

Episode 549: Box Graters

Spilled Milk

Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton

Arts, Food, Comedy

4.61.5K 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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