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Dan Marek - Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)
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Tuesday, March 18, 2025 at 11:00 am Pacific, 2:00 pm Eastern
Join Chef Dan Marek in his virtual office as he welcomes all of your questions. This event was created for you and we encourage you to Ask Anything – from cooking techniques to cours… Read More.
Question:

What's the best way to buy tofu?
— Diane Dankert
Answer:
Yeah, yeah, you know, um, Diane, every tofu block that I've ever bought has come in a plastic bin, um, of some sort, you know, so it's either come in, uh, a plastic, you know, thing that you can recycle or just shrink wrap plastic in it around it as well too, like the dryer ones that aren't in water. So that is definitely, if you're trying to stay away from plastic, that's gonna be a little bit hard. Now, tofus, you can make it at home, it's actually just a, a pretty easy process. Um, you know, you can buy a tofu press or make one yourself to be able to make something like that as well. Those are typically made out of, uh, plastic, but you can definitely get stainless steel ones as well too. Um, so by and large most tofus going to come in a plastic though. Um, just so you know, um, unless you're starting to make it at home, there are a couple very specialty makers around the country, um, and definitely overseas that will, uh, you know, put it in glass containers or something a little different too. But, um, yeah, so you can look up different recipes to be able to make tofu from scratch and you can absolutely add, you know, to turmeric to that, uh, if you'd like to.
