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I buy the pre-crushed garlic - I can't taste the difference.

I buy fresh ginger though - I saw a tip on a cooking show for grating ginger. When you buy it, peel it and then freeze it. The frozen ginger us very easy to grate - you don't get the yucky strings of fiber.
 
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Wish a person could get decent fresh garlic here on the garden route. The stuff we get looks more like King Tutankahmen's testicles than something you want to stir into your prize bolognaise. Sadly, I have been forced to use the pre-crushed bottled variety. At least it has some taste.
 
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Grouter said:
Wish a person could get decent fresh garlic here on the garden route. The stuff we get looks more like King Tutankahmen's testicles than something you want to stir into your prize bolognaise. Sadly, I have been forced to use the pre-crushed bottled variety. At least it has some taste.
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Would be nice if you could grow your own, then you can use the green stem part too. Dunno how difficult they are to grow though.
 
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porn$tar said:
Would be nice if you could grow your own, then you can use the green stem part too. Dunno how difficult they are to grow though.
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There's a long history of "Grow-Your-Own" down this way :)D), but I've yet to find fields of juicy garlic stashed away growing amongst the mielies.
 
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+1 for side of the knife.
A garlic press seems a bit of a waste when there are other things that you could buy for the kitchen that are indispensable.

Incidentally: roasted garlic keeps very well in the fridge, roast a whole head at a time then grab a clove and squeeze out the sweet roasted paste when needed. Store the bugger airtight unless you want everything to reek of it!

EDIT: forgot the main reason for my post...
If the smell on your hands is the reason you'd rather use a press - table salt and dish soap will remove any smell from your hands (fish too!)
 
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SlinkyMike said:
EDIT: forgot the main reason for my post...
If the smell on your hands is the reason you'd rather use a press - table salt and dish soap will remove any smell from your hands (fish too!)
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Even easier - as long as it is steel you can rub your hands along the inside of the kitchen sink. :)
 
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bwana said:
Even easier - as long as it is steel you can rub your hands along the inside of the kitchen sink. :)
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For realsies? (sarcasm does not translate well online - heck I struggle to spot it IRL)

EDIT: Actually I remember Woolworths selling a brushed metal looking soap shaped thing that was supposed to remove odours - I laughed it of as snake oil. Seems I may have been wrong...
 
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