The "pour butter through a garlic press for garlic butter" hack turned into a 90 minute disaster
So I saw this hack online where you melt butter, press garlic through a garlic press into it, and it supposedly makes a perfect garlic butter in 30 seconds. Well I tried it last Tuesday and ended up spending an hour and a half cleaning my kitchen. The garlic got jammed in the press, then the melted butter splattered everywhere when I tried to force it through, and I even burned my hand on the hot butter (not bad, just a red spot). The thing is, the hack worked fine for the first clove, but then the press got all clogged with garlic skins and the butter started separating because it got too cold sitting there. So here's the debate: is this hack actually good if you prep right (like, peel every clove perfectly and warm the butter in a separate step), or is it just a fake internet trick that wastes everybody's time? Has anyone else dealt with this exact mess, or am I just bad at using garlic presses in general?