Have you seen this video? It’s genius. We tried it and it worked brilliantly!
How to Peel Garlic
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I may never actually try that but that video cracked me up! :)
Whoa! Awesome! I’ve always done the flat-knife smash (like Giada and Rachael Ray do), but this I had never heard of.
That’s awesome! I’m going to have to give it a try. No more garlic smelling hands.
Oh my goodness; this is awesome!! I have to try it! I wonder if it will work with non-stainless-steel bowls? I only have glass and ceramic…
Good question, Sara. I have no idea! We used stainless steel bowls, but the ones we used weren’t nearly as big as the ones in the video. I wonder if size and materials matter…
just hard to hold onto and heavy!!
Genius!
I have the same question as Sara. I’ll have to try it soon!
That is fantastic! I’ll definitely try it. We go through garlic at a fierce rate in my family and my hands nearly always smell of it.
I’ll bet you will love this trick, Cammie!
Brilliant!
I love it!
Fantastic! I will definitely try this.
I took a cooking class where the chef recommended blanching garlic before using it raw to keep away the bitey-after taste of garlic.
Thanks for sharing the peeling trick.
Good to know, Katie!
What!? I wouldn’t have believed it if you hadn’t tried it. Looks too easy!
I was skeptical until we tried it. But it totally worked!
What the what?? Can’t wait to try it.
Although I have to admit, I’m kind of scared to hit it with my hand!
THAT’S AMAZING!!! We use tons of garlic, and while I do individual cloves by smashing them with the flat of my knife, this will be REALLY handy when I’m making something like Chicken with 40 Cloves of Garlic! Totally trying this later. :)
hot diggety! i am reposting this video.
That is insanely cool. Cannot wait to blow my MIL’s mind with this one!
Glory! That is awesome! And for those of you that are saying about garlic smelling hands: rub your hands on anythings stainless steel, somehow it neutralized the smell.
You can purchase special soap bar-shaped stainless steel to keep handily near the sink – I found some very cheap (as in under £2/3) ones on Amazon, and they work a treat.
That is amazing! I am going to try tonight! I hope you are having a wonderful trip Gabby!
Wow – I almost can’t believe that works. I’ll definitely be trying it!
it seems genius but… i was wondering, in terms of sustainability, does it compensate the water we would use to wash those 2 enormous bowls? anyway, it could certainly work for a recipe with tons of garlic! Thanks for making me think about this! :-)
Give it try! It didn’t dirty our bowls at all. I dumped the peelings and didn’t even need to wipe them out.
Genius
THANK YOU!!!!!!!
i’ve blogged about this too! (and martha’s amazing pomegranate video as well – have u tried that?? we eat alot of pomegranates…):
http://richardsonshine.blogspot.com/2011/09/who-knew.html
Off to check out the pomegranate link. (We love pomegranates!)
This was the funniest thing I’ve seen all day!
Woah! Gonna have to try this! :-)
This is awesome.
Whoa! Thanks for sharing that video! Awesome!
I’m all “Whoa” too… I mean as a kid it was MY job to peel and chop the garlic for my parents . Man I wish I had known this trick well before now, you know after doing the smash thing on 11, 459 cloves of garlic. I can’t help wanting his clamp like grip on the two bowls to , ummm fail… WHOA GARLIC EVERYWHERE …LOL.
love your blog.
what an awesome little video. totally going to give that a try. that guy had such sweet charm, i’m totally game for more of those videos. thanks for sharing.
It really does work!
A tip for those without meaty chef paws; use a kitchen towel placed over the clove and your body weight to assist you in smashing the garlic apart!
brilliant!
for real!? with no knife too!? im gonna give it a go!
NO. That is amazing! Can’t wait to try!
whoa, most useful bit of info i have received in a long time, and maybe ever.
Heard this on NPR several months ago—it was truly a driveway moment as they described it. I called my mom up (a cook her entire life, age 60+) to tell her and we were both astounded that we had never heard of this before. On NPR, they said that probably 90% or professional chefs had never heard of it either!