Peeling garlic- fast!!

[veggiechicken]

Just saw this and thought it worth sharing as I hate peeling garlic
Holiday Sparkle: The Fastest way to peel garlic!

[vikkib]

Just saw this and thought it worth sharing as I hate peeling garlic
Holiday Sparkle: The Fastest way to peel garlic!

Fab! That will save me a lot of time and some very painful fingertips when this years garlic gets turned into lazy garlic!

[rustylady]

Must try that just to see if it works.

[arpoet]

But why would you want to use a whole bulb? 2 cloves at a time does from my stews and spag bollie..
( No horses we used in this message. 100% British beef... Honest.. Would i lie? )

[ladylottie]

But why would you want to use a whole bulb? 2 cloves at a time does from my stews and spag bollie..
( No horses we used in this message. 100% British beef... Honest.. Would i lie? )

Well I suppose you could press down on the whole bulb to separate the cloves. Just put as many cloves as you wanted to use into the tupperware box and shake those to remove the skins. The other cloves will last well enough until ready to be used.

[Aberdeenplotter]

peeling garlic is a dawdle. Flat bladed knife over the clove and then splat with the side of your fist. The skin just comes away.

[alldigging]

But why would you want to use a whole bulb? 2 cloves at a time does from my stews and spag bollie..
( No horses we used in this message. 100% British beef... Honest.. Would i lie? )

Throw them in with a chicken next time you roast one.
Although if you don't peel then you can just squeeze the soft insides out... mmm

[VirginVegGrower]

peeling garlic is a dawdle. Flat bladed knife over the clove and then splat with the side of your fist. The skin just comes away.

I do the same - it works

[darcyvuqua]

Pop a clove into a microwave remove cut bottom off and squeeze boom done thats how I roll


but be careful you dont get the boom to happen inside the microwave

[Hazel at the Hill]

Weeeeeeeeeeell, I tried this per instructions.

It sorta works - but only sorta. The pics show perfect nude cloves, but if you've given the bulb a right good squash, the cloves are a bit squashed too, and when I scooped the squashed bulb into a container and shake-it-all-baaaaaaaaby not all (in fact about half) of the skins came off.

I repeated a few times, and thought that the only way this would work well was if the base of each clove was chopped off before the squashing/shaking thing.

Verdict - Hmm - 5/10

[veggiechicken]

Back to the chopping board then

[Chef_uk]

I do the same - it works

Same as does every other Chef i've ever worked with

[g4jc]

Years ago I bought a little plastic tube for about 30/40p. Just pop one or two cloves in (found more than this didn't work so well) and roll it on your work top and they are pefectly peeled.

You can still get them on a certain auction site for under £1 inc postage.

If you have old creaky hands and rubbish eyesight like me they are a great help.

[vicky]

I don't peel - the bulbs I grow are too little to faff with, I just pop a few in the garlic crusher and out comes garlic, the skins stay inside and can be flicked out with a knife so not much mess either

[Linzy]

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