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Garlic
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I live for my garlic . I love it raw , and compare each different taste of each separate variety like wine lovers compare their wines.
I find the difference is amazing. Growing conditions can also enhance taste.
My latest product to prepare garlic from individual cloves is from a well known company, and is the best slicer and dicer that I have ever used.
Ideal for anyone suffering from wrist weakness.
It does not crush but can puree instead.
I have well over a dozen ,mainly crushers.
Some are fiddly to clean but I am still looking for the Holy Grail of garlic tools that will crush ,slice and also dice.
Anyone managed to resource an all singing one yet ?.
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I was going to be cheeky and post up 'General Chef's Knife' pansyface, then thought better of it. Thugh if I hand a glove of garlic to my son who's at catering college, he can crush, dice and slice garlic with nothing else. To clean is just a wipe with a cloth
I've always found the 'tools' messy and waste a lot of the garlic myself.
Too much garlic gives me a runny tummy and I cannot stand the smell of people who have eaten it raw.
Pansyface sounds like a real chef, that's how they do it.
I always crush with a spatula or knife, pick out the skin and chop or add as is to the dish. Simple and you don't have to pick garlic - wasted garlic - out of the implement.
I use a large-ish wide-bladed knife just as Pansyface does - it does the job quickly, efficiently and makes no extra washing up.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Knife. Board. Garlic crushers (at least the ones I've ever used) are the Devil's work
I am amazed that so few members so far use garlic tools and use knives.
Spades and cultivators comes to mind.
Having double dug three full size allotments in my youth,( one after the other, I then obtained, years later a machine, that turned the soil over in a fraction of the time ,and realised that sometimes progress is wonderful.
I am not knocking the skills of basic preparing, but realise I am perhaps more happy having help ,and do not trust myself with sharp knives and unguarded fingers.
There is obviously a place for a cultivator, but sometimes it can cause more problems than it solves. Most gardeners know that.
knife/ board for me too. threw out the garlic crusher years ago
I have a cultivator, it is good for breaking up lawns and getting a fine tilth on our clay. But it doesn't go all that deep. Having just last month double dug the veg plot for the first time, I could really see how the cultivator was only really skimming the top. It was though good to break up the huge clods of clay I was digging out.
I also bribe the younger version of the human race. He just finished helping me remove some old privet and greengage stumps (and some god awful half-buried chicken wire) ready for our new hedge. He's off early for a driving lesson (on me of course - it works both ways), I've just popped in to warm up before tackling the last three (thankfully only privet) stumps whilst he learns how to drive me to shops (which I've done for him for years).
Old boys in Suffolk use to say hard work never killed anyone, I actually find recovering from a herniated disc it is the best thing for it. Far less pain at night since I've been working out in the garden, rather than 'taking it easy'. Somewhat strangely by far the best 'therapy' has been digging, which is always described as 'back breaking'. I'm sure it would be possible to strain just about every muscle and tendon in the body doing it, but small doses and only doing what I can manage works.
In the kitchen a razor sharp knife works well for me, in the garden a spade and fork put the cultivator to shame.
I have a garlic press
Somewhere
It came with plastic thing for poking out the bits. Several of the prongs bent the first time I used it.
In the sticks near Peterborough