I’m making pepper tofu for dinner tonight and it reminded me of our chats about the tofu press on the previous thread
I haven’t bought one yet, but came up with a good interim solution. I saved one tofu container - ours comes in a little plastic carton like this:
So now when I buy a new tofu, I slit the top plastic sheet around 3 edges to drain it, stab some holes in the bottom of the container, then set it in the other hole-free container atop a mason jar lid ring (to provide a gap for the liquid to collect.
I keep the plastic flap down over the tofu block, put a couple blocks of wood on top, then secure it all together with rubber bands. Seems to work pretty well! If I’m going to let it press a while, I stick the whole thing in a big ziplock bag or airtight container in the fridge.
It’s way less precarious than the old “heavy pots balanced on cutting boards balanced atop tofu” thing I was doing!
