How To Quickly Peel Garlic At Home: Instructions + Video And Photo

2024 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 12:53

How to peel garlic without hassle

You can jokingly do without saffron and turmeric, stubbornly ignore ginger, snort contemptuously on cumin, and prefer bay leaf to all spices on earth. But giving up garlic is almost unthinkable! This aromatic seasoning, which gives the dishes a pleasant pungency, will be used in appetizers and salads, in borscht and roast, in spicy sauces and preparations for the winter … Yes, almost everywhere, except for desserts. However, how difficult it is at times to peel its sharp teeth from the husk! Here you cannot do without knowing some culinary tricks.

Content

• 1 Which garlic is easier to peel?

• 2 Kitchen life hacks: easy, fast, effective

  • 2.1 Method # 1: wide knife
  • 2.2 Method # 2: bowl or jar
  • 2.3 Video: 35 slices in a few seconds
  • 2.4 Method # 3: special devices
  • 2.5 Video: speed cleaning
  • 2.6 Method # 4: cold water
  • 2.7 Method number 5: boiling water

Which garlic is easier to peel?

In this world, what just does not happen. There is, for example, Solo's garlic one-tooth, which looks more like an onion, albeit with a recognizable spicy aroma. It is a pleasure to clean it; no fuss with small slices! True, it is difficult to find a real Solo anywhere, besides large supermarkets, and in terms of cost it is much inferior to the usual "clove" garlic.

The Solo variety is strikingly different from its counterparts.

The varieties more traditional in our area - Jubilee, Gulliver, Parus - are another matter. They are both more affordable and cheaper. But they cause trouble when cleaning! Especially the hostess suffers, whose share will be the preparation for a large feast or conservation: while you release a dozen or two cloves from the sticky husk, you will lose a lot of time and fray your nerves.

It remains only to master the methods of express cleaning of garlic, fortunately, a lot of them have been invented. And also learn to choose from a variety of toothed heads those that are easier to part with their rustling skin. Here it is better to pay attention not to the variety - it has little effect on cleaning - but to the age and storage method of the spice. Young fresh slices and damp cloves are "exposed" reluctantly, even culinary tricks do not always work with them. But lying down and properly dried, jump out of the husk "with a bang!"

Kitchen life hacks: easy, fast, effective

Method # 1: wide knife

1. Disassemble the head of garlic into cloves.

   

   Well-dried garlic is easily divided into cloves

2. Cut off the tip of each at the base.

   

   The hard tip needs to be removed

3. Cover the wedges with a flat wide knife and press down on it. Without fanaticism, but perceptibly - a characteristic crunch should sound. After that, the husk will fly off the cloves in no time, it will be enough to lightly rub them with your fingers.

   

   Don't overdo it, you'll get some garlic gruel!

Professional chefs advise using the "pressure method" only if you plan to further grind the seasoning or pass it through a press - that is, when the integrity of the garlic is not important. Some of the lobules will suffer in any case, especially at first.

Method # 2: bowl or jar

If using a knife you can easily clean a relatively small number of cloves, then a container of a suitable size, which is at hand in time, will allow you not to limit yourself. Need just a couple of slices? A handful of sweet cloves? Maybe you need to free a dozen or two heads from the husk? No problem! With skill, cleaning will take no more than 10 seconds.

1. Disassemble the head of garlic into cloves. The easiest way to do this is to hit it sharply with the bottom of your hand.

   

   The teeth will easily separate from each other on impact

2. Place the wedges in a jar with a lid, or pour them into a bowl, which you will need to cover on top with a second suitable container.

   

   For several cloves, choose a jar, for two or three heads - a bowl

3. Now take the container in your hands and shake it heartily for 10 seconds. Voila! It remains to choose the cloves from the husk, cut off the ends and start cooking.

   

   The result will be excellent

The method is good when you are dealing with well dried garlic. For fresh slices, it is ineffective.

Video: 35 slices in a few seconds

Method # 3: special tools

A method for those who enthusiastically test a variety of kitchen devices. In this case, we are talking about a rug or a straw for cleaning garlic. The device works extremely simply.

1. Place several teeth separated from the head into it. After that, the rug will need to be rolled into a roll, but you won't have to do anything with the straw - just make sure that the garlic does not spill out of it.

   

   The cleaning mat is easy and convenient to use

2. Cover the package with your palm and roll it back and forth on the table for a few minutes.

   

   The pressure should not be strong

3. It is done! Remove the clean cloves from the device and shake the husks into the trash.

   

   A few seconds and you're done

And this is what the tube looks like.

Primitive? But effective!

If the garlic is well dried, you can do without newfangled devices. Just cover the slices prepared for cleaning with your palm, lightly press and roll them in a circular motion on the table. Part of the husk is poured in the process of "rolling", and removing its remnants is not difficult.

Video: speed cleaning

Method # 4: cold water

If the garlic is damp - this happens when the storage rules are not observed or the spice is kept in the refrigerator - a bowl and rug will not help. But don't worry, you won't have to scrape the stubborn teeth with your nails! The case will be improved with ordinary water.

1. "Gut" the head of garlic into cloves.

   

   Water will help to cope even with small teeth

2. Place in a bowl and cover with cold water.

   

   Remember to trim the hard tip at the base of each wedge

3. Leave the container aside and 15-20 minutes, or better half an hour, do other things. After 30 minutes, the soaked husk will easily come off the cloves.

   

   If you brush the cloves directly in water, your hands will not smell like garlic.

No time to soak? Then just try to hold the slices for 30-60 seconds under running water. The effectiveness of this method is lower, but it will make the cleaning process easier for you.

Method # 5: boiling water

If you are going to heat the garlic, for example, fry vegetables, croutons with it, or add spice to a marinade, try resorting to hot water. It will destroy some of the vitamins and essential oils, but since the high temperatures of the spice still cannot be avoided, this will not affect the final result.

1. Place the cloves in any suitable container and pour boiling water over the entire cloves.

   

   Be careful, you can scald yourself!

2. After 1–2 minutes, carefully drain the water and start cleaning - the husk will come off without problems.

As you can see, the culinary "secrets" are not complicated. But how much easier it is to wield the kitchen for those who are devoted to them! And finally, let's add one more little secret, which you cannot do without when peeling garlic. When the job is done and the finished dish fills your apartment with mouth-watering aromas, wash your hands with lemon juice, a pinch of coffee grounds or ordinary salt. This will help remove the pungent garlic odor from your skin.