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March 10, 2012

Artichoke Preparation Errors

By Glenn Fleishman

I posted on Twitter the 2nd of 3 steps in cooking an artichoke from a little sticker in a container of artichokes I had purchased from Trader Joe’s as a little joke, because of an obvious error. My friends on Twitter identified another, and I found two more.

Can you find them all?

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• A knife is shown, not scissors. (A knife is the right tool; it’s far easier to use and much safer.)
• Artichokes are flower buds, and the “leaves” surrounding them are properly called bracts (but definitely not petals, which are part of blooming flowers).
• The knife, as shown, could easily cut fingers underneath. (Okay, that’s borderline. But it’s not the right way to hold that flower bud safely.)
• The “petals” do not have one collective “tip”: it should be “tips of petals [bracts].”

Who knew so much could go so wrong so briefly?

Posted by Glennf at 7:23 PM