Nancy Young wrote:
>
> On Alan aka ha's recommendation, I picked up one of those
> plastic dumpling makers. Specifically, the Joyce Chen
> "Dumplings Plus" ... it looks to me like something that
> should work, then you buy it and try it and toss it in the
> trash because it's worthless.
>
> I'll be darned, I made up a slew of potstickers with minimum
> fuss and muss, usually that is one messy job.
>
> Thanks, ha!
>
> nancy (failed at dipping sauce, will try again)

If you can be bothered to make your own pasta dough, can place the
crimper under the sheet of dough, place some filling on the dough and
fold it over/crimp from underneath. Don't even need to buy the
ready-made circles or squares of dough.

Arri London wrote:
> Nancy Young wrote:

>> I'll be darned, I made up a slew of potstickers with minimum
>> fuss and muss, usually that is one messy job.

> If you can be bothered to make your own pasta dough,

Heh, when I was whining about how I couldn't find gyoza
wrappers, people were nice enough to tell me how to make
them myself. Luckily for me, I found them and they are
maybe $1 for a whole bunch.

I had trouble picturing your method, though. Maybe
I'll try making my own dough next time, but that will be
some time away as I have a few dozen potstickers in the
freezer.

nancy

Nancy Young > wrote:

> Arri London wrote:
>> Nancy Young wrote:
>
>>> I'll be darned, I made up a slew of potstickers with minimum
>>> fuss and muss, usually that is one messy job.
>
>> If you can be bothered to make your own pasta dough,
>
> I had trouble picturing your method, though.

Many potsticker crimps don't have the handles so that you can just
press the whole sheet of the dough right down on top of them rather
then cutting out individual circles beforehand.

-sw

Nancy Young wrote:
>
> Arri London wrote:
> > Nancy Young wrote:
>
> >> I'll be darned, I made up a slew of potstickers with minimum
> >> fuss and muss, usually that is one messy job.
>
> > If you can be bothered to make your own pasta dough,
>
> Heh, when I was whining about how I couldn't find gyoza
> wrappers, people were nice enough to tell me how to make
> them myself. Luckily for me, I found them and they are
> maybe $1 for a whole bunch.


They do freeze well.

>
> I had trouble picturing your method, though. Maybe
> I'll try making my own dough next time, but that will be
> some time away as I have a few dozen potstickers in the
> freezer.
>
> nancy

Just lay the sheet of dough over the open crimper. After filling, pick
up one edge of the crimper and fold/cut the dough. Then slide the
re-opened crimper under the next section of dough and do it again. Goes
fast enough after a bit of practise.