Roll your own garlic :-)

I needed some garlic for a recipe and extracted 6 cloves from the garlic jar. Needing to do 6 cloves sent me to the gadget drawer where I retrieved the garlic tube. We happened across this tube along with a garlic grater(a small plate with dimples) at a flower show.

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The tube is quite efficient in removing the tunic from the clove.

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Place the clove in the tube, place both on a flat surface and roll the tube with the palm of your hand while pressing down.


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You can sometimes hear the tunic separate from the clove. Remove the
separated tunic .

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Done!! 6 cloves can be done in about a minute.

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Slice the cloves and that part of the recipe was done.


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Jerry

 

I saw Pampered Chef has one of these, too, but the price was a little steep for me. Then I saw a quick bit somewhere on using a Silpat mat. Which is a silicone mat used for baking. It does work as long as the counter and your hands are dry. Your little tube would be more efficient/easier, I think.

 

What a handy kitchen implement. Is it soft then, that tube?
Works a charm, doesn't it.

 

Never knew something like that existed.

 

Brilliant! Now I'm going to be looking for a soft tube for rolling garlic (can hardly wait to go to our local hardware store and explain what I need and why!).
How do you wash it--by hand, or is it dishwasher safe?

 

The tube is quite flexible and we don't have a dishwasher…..well not quite true….I wash she dries or she washes and I dry. Neither of us have scrubbed the blue off and we have had it since……..don't go away …..I'm checking when we went to the flower show…….Feb 2011.


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Jerry

 

The grater it came with is 5 inches in diameter and has sharp points that bite into the garlic as you rub it across the surface. Also quite efficient.


garlic grater ( photo / image / picture from Jerry Sullivan's Garden )

Jerry

P.S. I did find the garlic peeler on Amazon. Even used ones

 

Interesting ...

 

Great gadget!
The dish you made looks delicious Jerry! What is in it?

 

TRhanks for the update, Mr Sullivan. That really is an interesting kitchen helper.
I do dislike getting my fingertips so sticky when pealing the garlics before pressing them.

Give that boy a gold star!