EPC Very Lazy Ginger

Lurking amongst the root vegetables on our supermarket shelves, there is often root ginger. Attractive to those of us who like to add a little spice and interest to our food, these roots are a dark biscuit brown on the outside with knobbles or antlers making for a very strange looking foodstuff. The interior of the root is typically pale or straw coloured with a slightly woody appearance. Without doubt whole fresh roots still provide the freshest taste and pungency. These curious roots are collected and shipped when they are still immature, and the outer skin is a light green colour, often with little green shoots still sprouting. These can sometimes be found like this ...  Read the complete review

If you like to cook curries from scratch, enjoy the odd stir fry or Middle Eastern cuisine, this is definitely a product you will find invaluable. I have been using Very Lazy Ginger for a year or so now and I always have a jar in my fridge. I'm not sure whether that makes me a very lazy cook but it certainly means that I'm always prepared for recipes which call for root ginger as an ingredient and there's never any need to peel some knobbly misshapen piece of fresh ginger before grating. The ginger is quite coarsely grated and preserved in water and I find it hard to differentiate between the taste of freshly grated ginger and this product. In ...  Read the complete review