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That $8 garlic press I mocked is now my kitchen MVP
I spent a year crushing garlic with the flat side of a knife because I thought presses were gimmicks. Last month my sister left her cheap one at my place after Sunday dinner, and I used it just to prove a point. Twenty seconds later I had minced garlic with zero sticky fingers and no tiny chunks flying across the counter. I timed myself against my old method: knife took 4 minutes including cleanup, press took under 1. Now I actually look for excuses to cook with garlic, which is scary because I used to avoid peeling it entirely. Anyone else have a kitchen tool they swore off for years and then quietly gave in to?
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xena_brown5014d ago
That "twenty seconds later I had minced garlic with zero sticky fingers" bit made me laugh because I read a thing somewhere that said garlic presses actually get a bad rap mostly from the old cheap ones that snapped, and the newer designs fixed that. There was some test where they compared presses to microplanes and knives, and for pure speed the press won pretty much every time, though people complained about cleaning the little holes. My mom kept hers in the drawer for like a decade and swore it was useless, then used it every single day once she got one that didn't jam. Took me a while too, but now I get why people hang onto those things.
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