On 5 Mar 2019 17:51:50 GMT, KenK > wrote:

>"Julie Bove" > wrote in
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>
>> My attempts at mincing garlic have the makings for a sit com. I've
>> seen chefs use the technique of laying a large knife flat on the
>> clove, pounding on the knife to smash the clove, then quickly mincing
>> it. When I try to do that, the clove goes zinging across my kitchen.
>>
>> If I try to slice then mince, my pieces always wind up too big.
>>
>> I tried two different garlic presses. One was very ineffective in that
>> it would smash up the garlic but it wouldn't press out the other end.
>> I would then use the tip of a knife to try to scrape out the pressed
>> garlic. I would manage to get a bit, but most would be retained in the
>> press. The next one was only slightly better. Both retained the stinky
>> aroma of garlic. I tossed them.
>>
>> For some time, I used either garlic powder or some dried roasted
>> garlic that I bought somewhere. But for some things, I really want to
>> use the real deal. Recent attempts at mincing were no better so I
>> bought a small jar of minced.
>>
>> Help! How do you mince the stuff!
>>
>Don't. Just buy it by the jar. Store brand for cheapest. I use it a LOT
>and a big jar (16 oz or so) lasts a long long time. Much easier than
>mincing it yourself.

To me the pre-minced in a jar tastes nothing like real garlic, it
leaves a chemical after taste I once purchased a small jar, maybe 4
ozs, in the end I flushed it but I saved the cute little jar. I
usually have two heads of garlic on hand so when I'm down to one I'll
buy another. I don't keep a lot of garlic on hand as after a week or
two it tends to sprout and sometime it rots. In an emergency I always
have granulated garlic... it's what's used at pizza joints... It'll
probably work well for cutlery deficient Julie... granulated is much
better than the chemically treated in a jar. My neighbor grows garlic
and a couple of times has left a dozen bulbs at my back door, had to
let him know that three is more than I can use. He grows very nice
onions too, those I use in salads, they are too good to use for
cooking. And these days I only buy sweet onions.