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I don’t eat a lot of red meat, so tofu usually fills in that void in my diet.
Recently, Richard from Tofu Xpress sent me one of their sweet little devices to try out. I was a little skeptical about the benefits of squeezing all of the liquid out of tofu….isn’t the point of tofu to be a meat replacement? And don’t you kind of WANT your “meat” to be moist?
So I did some research. Read a bunch of tofu recipes (normally I hand Chef the tofu and say “abracadabra!” or something equally odd and he makes it into food for me). Figured out that YES you DO want to squeeze the water out of tofu.
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This makes room for the marinade to soak into the tofu, since tofu itself doesn’t really have a taste, per se. When you press the water out of the tofu, it also changes the texture of it, making it easier to grill or bake.
I checked out a couple of homemade ways that you could squeeze all of the water out of the tofu….but since you kinda need to refrigerate the whole shebang while pressing, they weren’t really convenient. Or a good use of your kitchen items, as shown to the left there….
So here’s how you work the TofuXpress:
- Take your tofu.
- Put it into the bottom half of the TofuXpress.
- Press the top half on and rotate until locked.
- Put in the refrigerator.
- Done.
I received a Tofu Xpress from TofuXpress.com to review for my blog. No other compensation was provided for this review.
) We had a blast, and we’ll definitely be going out with the Baker and Baker’s Wife again.
