Garlic Press

[Anonymous No.12651033]

What are /ck/'s thoughts on garlic press?

Does it make much differece? Do you use if for specific recipes?

[Anonymous No.12651075]

real bitch to clean

[Anonymous No.12651079]

>>12651033
Imagine if you put your nuts in that

[Anonymous No.12651080]

>>12651033
Got one last month and I like them, but they do seem to leave a lot of wasted garlic on the inside and are annoying to clean.

[Anonymous No.12651169]

>>12651033
Like everyone else said, works okay, but half the shit sticks inside it and then it sucks to clean.
When you graduate from "culinary school" and start living in the real world, you will evolve into pic related, and never look back.

[Anonymous No.12651177]

>>12651169
Lol no

[Anonymous No.12651196]

>>12651177
I'm glad you're willing to cook for me for ten bucks and hour, because I make fifty.
Have fun washing dishes, faggot. My time is valuable, yours is not.

[Anonymous No.12651207]

>>12651075
You have a shitty one then. The leftover garlic flakes right off of mine like oil on water.

[Anonymous No.12651225]

>>12651033
Produces a very fine garlic paste that is stronger in flavor than hand minced garlic. I prefer to use it when I need garlic in sauces or soups. The more the garlic is pulverized, the more flavor it releases so a press will get you max garlic taste and fragrance.

[Anonymous No.12651230]

>>12651169
If you think this is interchangeable with fresh garlic you need to quit smoking.

[Anonymous No.12651240]

>>12651169
No one who wants full garlic flavor uses that stuff. I have to use easily twice as much of the pre minced stuff to even begin to touch the flavor of just using fresh garlic. I don't know if it's the soaking in liquid, or the fact that a lot of the stuff inside the garlic releases when it's been cut open for a while but that shit is not good. The acceptable lazy way is to just throw some cloves in a food processor. I use a mortar and pestle and just smash it tho. Stop pretending like you know anything about cooking.

[Anonymous No.12651242]

>>12651033
They're great if you need to use a lot of garlic cloves for a recipe since the waste left in it is a non-issue when you're pressing 8 or 10 cloves in one sitting.

[Anonymous No.12651243]

>>12651033
Just use mortar and pestle. If you grind several cloves at a time it doesn't take any longer.

[Anonymous No.12651262]

>>12651196

[Anonymous No.12651272]

>>12651079
imagine if even one of your nuts was as small as a large clove of garlic

[Anonymous No.12651277]

cutting garlic is the easiest thing to do, and I always thought it was best to cut the garlic before cutting the onions

[Anonymous No.12651394]

>>12651196
Imagine having so little skill it takes you more than 30 seconds to mince up some garlic with a knife.

[Anonymous No.12651589]

>>12651169
This is the kinda shit that makes people hate garlic. It only takes a minute to peel and microplane garlic if you're feelin lazy.
Pre peeled garlic tastes fucking odd and metallic.

[Anonymous No.12651599]

>>12651033
M I C R O P L A N E

[Anonymous No.12651606]

>>12651599
Based

[Anonymous No.12651624]

>>12651277
Cutting and crushing garlic are not the same thing.
Crushing garlic releases way more garlic flavor, and may even modify the way the garlic flavor tastes.
Crushing garlic cloces with the flat side of a chefs knife eill also work, but it isn’t as effective as a garlic press.
Slicing garlic releases way less flavor than either of the above methods.
Slicing garlic ultra thin like in Goodfellas might do something similar, but I presume you loose a lot of flavor to the cutting board.

[Anonymous No.12651626]

>>12651033
Garlic presses squishes the cloves, squeezes all the garlic juicr out, is a bitch to clean, and wastes more garlic.

Use a microplane instead, anon. They're versitile, lighter, easier and faster to use, and results in more garlic and less juice everywhere.

[Anonymous No.12651634]

>>12651599
what does this have to do with garlic?

[Anonymous No.12651638]

>>12651634
MICROPLANES ARE THE FUTURE (of ez minced garlic)

[Anonymous No.12651649]

just chop/smash it with a knife - you'll spend more time cleaning the press than you save in cutting the garlic

[Anonymous No.12651652]

>>12651638
>>12651626
These aren't even planes at all.

[Anonymous No.12651659]

>>12651649
If you smash it fast and hard, all the way down, the whole clove is minced instantly