On 2003-11-03, Melba's Jammin' > wrote:
> What's the cheap homemade version?

For everyone who may think Rachel Ray is just a pretty face, I can say
I actually learned something on her show. She took 2 stainless steel
bowls, about 1-1/2 pt size, filled one with a handfull of
garlic cloves, held them together to form a globe, and shook the Hell out of
the garlic inside. When she pulled them apart, all the
cloves were peeled! It appears you have to shake the garlic hard
enough that all the cloves are bouncing off the sides of the bowl and
each other to knock the skins off. She said it won't work if you
don't shake hard enough. This may no be the easiest technique for
the geezer crowd. It should work in any type of container ...say a
canning jar. Got any of those laying around?

nb