/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>14562911
Because it creates strings of garlic mush instead of chopped garlic. Also it's soulless.

It's a pain to clean up. I just use these.

chopping garlic isn't exactly difficult

cause ppl dont know its uses to puree garlic and ppl never tried to puree garlic with knife and salt

its a good tool

>>14562911
Pressing makes the garlic bitter. Ask some soccer moms for more infos.

>>14562917
The “strings” break down you pleb

the same reason you wouldnt put salt on eggs--it turns the garlic grey

>>14562911
The ubiquity of these made Bourdain an hero. He hated ‘lic presses.

>>14563035
wtf

>>14562998
Will it liquify in the pan with a little oil?

>>14562936
its 50x slower and makes your hand stink

>>14563050
wtf I love garlic presses now

>>14562911
it's not a razor blade, like mama mia used to use.therefore, no liqufication.

>>14563089
Yee

I used to waste my time slicing garlic by hand, no more. Now I just use this and I get the same results in the end.

>>14563622

>>14563628
Wtf I hate squeezy garlic now

>>14563628
You know it's true frogposter

>>14563644
>INGREDIENTS: Garlic, Water, Citric Acid, Xanthan Gum.

>>14563680
Don't care, I actually cook food with it and the end result tastes the same.

>>14563689
>the end result tastes the same
as raw sewage

>>14563689
no they don't.

>>14563713
>>14563723
Neither of you have likely ever cooked a day in your life so I really don't care what you say.

>>14563732
made sfincione last night
I was skeptical about the recipe but it turned out to be based
seethe

>>14563735
Cope, have sex, dilate, and neck yourself janny.

>>14563740
>this upset about his fake garlic
not gonna make it

If you don’t buy heads of garlic and mince the cloves yourself then you’re lazy and probably fat.

>>14562911
because some models are a pain in the ass to clean

>>14563622
You'll never get better than fresh garlic, that shit is watered down

there's literally only one type of garlic press i've ever found that does the job right while also not being a pain in the ass to clean or use

>>14562928
What in the fuck? This looks so much better, why is this not the default?

>>14563757
I'm sorry your sense of self worth hinges on something as tiny as a garlic clove.

>>14563035
>ONLY ADD THE SALT AFTER THE EGGS HAVE COOKED
this fucking retard actually believes that. I want him to actually try making his bullshit creme fraiche eggs with and without salt in the beat and just see

Theyre convenient but really a fucking meme tool. If you want to “crush” the garlic use the side of the knife, or a mortar and pestle which is a much more useful tool anyway.

Meanwhile just make it bigger and you have a potato ricer which is actually really fucking useful for fluffy mashed potatoes.

>>14563237
>he doesnt like having stinky garlic fingers
ngmi

>>14563237
Boy, you should smell my hands after I make kimchi.

>>14563740
im gay

>>14562992
Wrong, so very fuking wrong.

>>14563622
based, minced garlic is da best

>>14562928
This looks like its a pain and a half to use
Anything where something has to removed from the inside doesn't seem worth it--its the same concept as a garlic press, but more work because it doesn't automatically fall out

>>14563035
>not using wine to turn the garlic blue

>>14563237
Like garlic. You love garlic.

>>14563764
It is, but you just use more.
Freshness is overblown anyway. It's imperceptibly better, but only if you haven't left it sitting around for a couple weeks like it's an onion.

>>14563622
I had to buy some of that stuff that comes in a jar because all the fresh garlic was out. I think it was because of covid. Trash.

>>14562911
I always use these because I dont want my hands to still smell like garlic 3 days after

>>14562911
Depends what you want to do with it. If you are not frying the garlic, I think it's sometimes ok to use it (for example in tzaziki).

>>14563237
rub your fingers on an metal spoon while washing them and the smell will be gone

>>14562928
I can imagine Ja/ck/ getting his hands on one of these and inadvertently demonstrating how useless and terrible it is

>>14562917
Who pays you to pen this??????????? I did not have one at first restaurant I worked. I chopped thousands of gloves. Later bought one, product is 1000000 times better. I worked high end restaurant, we did not have one not for any intentional reason. Crushed is way better flavor than chopped.. Not even close.

>>14562928
More hard to use, and clean is same. Just with garlic press wash after use. do not let dry out. Mine is like pic but heavy duty made in Germany, I think it was 30 bucks... 6 years later still working.

>>14562911

Most of the problems people have comes from models with shitty designs. Buy a Zyless with a cleaning tool. It is strong enough to press peeled garlic which easily comes out of the press. If you're using a lot of garlic because you cook in bulk they are very useful for not having to peel.
People who look down on them likely only cook for themselves because they are alone with no family or friends. If you frequently make big pots of chili, gumbo, tomato sauce where you need like a 1/4 cup of garlic, they are great.

You literally get more flavour out of the garlic the more broken down it is
Chopping or slicing it is tedious and less effective

>>14565977
Are you one of those people who sends out those scammer emails asking people to send them their personal info because they have a "large inheritance" they didn't know about?

>>14562917
>souless
lost all credit right there bud

>>14563089
>>14562917
holy fuck you're stupid

great device, only absolute brainlets disagree

For me I have no problem with its result; the garlic is broken down, it's probably not that different from crushing it. My problem is the consumerist decadence. Why do you need this useless thing taking up space in your kitchen drawer when you've got a knife and a cutting boards that can serve its function just fine, along with a million other functions?
You might think "oh it's just a little thing, it's not that big of a deal." But that sort of mentality leads to a kitchen cluttered with single-use devices you'll end up hardly ever using. Better to keep things simple.

>>14568173
>i can only use a knife for everything

>>14568173
Based. This is why I’ve never in all my 34 years owned a microwave. Thank you anti-appliance mom.

>>14568173
I get what you're saying, but in my house, the garlic press is used daily. It's very much a necessity.

>>14568184

>>14568206
It's still a single-use device. And it's certainly not a necessity if you own a knife and a cutting board.

>>14568237
>Taking 3 minutes to make garlic paste
VS
>Taking 3 second to make garlic paste

>>14568252
way to expose how slow you are at basic tasks

>>14568305
Are you saying you are faster than the press?

>>14568173
>commies in charge of efficiency

Just use this if you don't like using a knife.

>>14562911
Just use the back of a knife or a mortar and pestle. I've owned garlic presses and they've all been so flimsy that the handles bend together instead of crushing the garlic.

>>14563622
ah chinese garlic peeled by slaves

>>14568173
>what is slippery slope

Separately, there's almost always a tool specifically designed for each individual job.

Can you turn a bolt with a multitool?
Yes, but very uncomfortably, because of the way the pliers on many multitools are designed. They can do it though, but if you had any chinesium wrench set, it'd finish up quickly. Even better, using a ratcheting wrench would make it go by in a flash... or speed handle, or drill with proper attachments, etc. Should we discount the use of multitools? No, but many tasks can be done faster with a specialized tool.

The same goes in the kitchen as well. To make tomato juice, I can just throw em in a vitamix and be drinking it in 30 seconds.

Or I can go your very spartan route, and crush them all, one by one, in my mortal and pestle.

Now if your argument is "there's not enough space in THE kitchen for every tool/utinsel/gadget for each task", then that's reasonable. But, maybe they value their galric press more than they'd value a set of circular pastry cutters, because they use more garlic than they do rounded cuts of cookie dough. That's their choice.

Now if your argument is "there's not enough space in MY kitchen for every tool/utinsel/gadget for each task" then all I gotta say is quit being poor. Complaining about "consumerist decadence" isn't going to help your lack of kitchen space, comrade.

>>14569273
>>Now if your argument is "there's not enough space in MY kitchen for every tool/utinsel/gadget for each task" then all I gotta say is quit being poor.
Honestly most bitching on the internet would just stop if people fixed their lives so that they can afford living like normal people.

>>14565842
this is something someone's grandma would say.

>>14569057
The tears of sweatshop child laborers is what adds just the right amount of zest.

>>14568547
Are you saying you can't crush garlic without it?

>>14570447
Normal people don't own one utensil for the sole purpose of processing only one type of raw food item.

>>14570863
>What is a citrus juicer
>Implying there isn't a whole industry of gadgets for single-purpose task devices for normal people

>>14562911
it's a notta howa my momma made it badda bing badda boom feeding is not eating you animale

>>14565897
He'd probably end up breaking his last functioning arm

>>14562911
Use a zester

Thanks for reminding me that I could use a garlic press, /ck/. Grabbed a decent Oxo model at Target for $11.

>>14570858
That's not his argument you inbred retard. A garlic press is, regardless of how good your knife skills are, faster than chopping ever will be.

I like it, it allows you to get more fine garlic bits than you could make by chopping

>>14562911
imagine putting your balls into an oversized one of those and crushing them haha

>>14562917
>soulless
meme terms

>>14574994
>>>/d/

>>14569273
except the multitool will fuck the bolt head up. Knife works just fine, eat shit and die consoomer

>>14562911
It's a unitasker, and Alton Brown says that makes it bad.

>>14575328
There are exceptions.

Rice cookers if you eat it with almost every meal.
Citrus juicers.
For most a garlic press is a good tool, especially if you use a lot of garlic.

got one of these a while back and it works wonders and cleans well too.

>>14562911
Just use one of these babies

>>14577696
is this green ceramic one the one you got? from where?

>>14562928
>Shoots garlic at your fingers instead of your food like a regular press

>>14577726
>get to the end of the garlic
>either have to throw it out or shred your hands

>>14575306
a poor craftsman blames his tools

you tool

>>14562936
Too sticky so I have to fight with it.

>>14562917
I've never had strings.

>>14565992
This is the one my mother bought me and it's awesome. I feel bad for people who don't have that cleaning tool, though they're not hard to clean anyway; just use your fingernail, sriwl around and run it under the faucet in shower mode.

>>14568173
It's not consumerist decadence, by far. It is a specialized tool, sure, but it helps 1000x more. It's more about convenience and ease rather than a shit useless consumerist thing. That's like asking why have a green scrubbie when you have a wash cloth, why have more than 1 knife, why have 2 looped tongs when you can just use the v shaped tongs, why have different types of serving spoons or spatulas, pots and pans when you can use 1. Do you not understand people have families? You live alone, don't you?. Are you the same anon from last night who thinks garbage disposals are consumerist?

>>14569048
Don't get plastic garlic presses?

>>14570447
Not really. It's lefties that complain and some of them are "entertainers" of all sorts, upper middle class commies of retard parents. They're the loudest fucks on the internet and now the streets.

>>14563050
Considering his stance on white genocide, he deserves to burn in hell.

I'm gonna ask here because I don't want to make a new thread.
I saw in a video this baking dish looking thing that had a raised platform in the middle of it with a bumpy top, and you can puree vegetables on it.
What is it called?

>>14578829
WHAT IS IT

>>14565977
>I chopped thousands of gloves.

>>14577696
Do I look like HR fucking Giger?

>>14568252
>Spending more than 3 minutes cleaning the garlic press.

>>14578828
Wow, didn’t know this. Just looked it up, what a POS racist.

>>14568117
Why dirty another utensil, when I could use the knife that I've already got in my hand, as I'm doing my mis en place?

>>14578939
Looks like a porcelain or ceramic Japanese grater.

>>14579045
The answer to your question is in his post already. There is such a thing as a stupid question.

>>14579078
Thank you very much, anon

>>14579113
My last step is always to smash the minced pieces with the flat of the blade. Same outcome, less bullshit devices involved.

>>14565121
>not buying your garlic blue for $10 more than regular garlic

>>14578745

Yea the good ones allow you to press with the garlic peel still on, that makes it easy to clean, you just pull the peel out.

When Alton Brown bitches about unitaskers he's talking about people who buy a banana slicer instead of just using a knife. When you can just as easily use a knife it's stupid to clutter your kitchen.

Potato ricers, cherry pitters, pasta rollers, sausage grinder and spatzle grate are unitaskers but they are the best tools for those particular jobs.

>>14562911
Because they're hipsters

>b-but muh cleaning
Put it in water when you're done using it, any remaining garlic skin will go soft and you can rinse that off without even having to touch it

>>14562911
It's a uni-tasker that's hard to clean.

>>14580266
It's not hard to clean.

>>14563237
Garlic smells great, you twat.

>>14580301
In food sure, not as cologne

>>14563622
People are gonna seethe at this, but switching to just buying garlic in a tube has been the best cooking decision I've ever made.

>>14563891
it has no lever force applied, so women can't use it with their noodle arms.

>>14563894
I'm sorry you're such an obese bacon beast.

>>14580370
Sounds disgusting honestly. I didn't know they even made such a thing. They certainly don't sell it around here.

>>14578804
I don't think they make garlic presses out of plastic, all the ones I bent are made of flimsy metal

>>14569273
This man knows.

>>14562911
I enjoy chopping garlic. Always reminds me of this scene from Goodfellas.

>it's a unitasker!
That has to be used at least once a day if you cook like an adult. After a point, the issue of it being a unitasker is kinda nullified.
>It's hard to clean
It's quicker to clean than a knife and cutting board. Just use a toothpick to get the bits out if your sink isn't powerful enough.

>>14578475
just throw it out. are you poor lol?

>>14563622

Thanks God it's fat free garlic

>>14580420
>They certainly don't sell it around here

LMAO flyover state or yuropistan?