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paperwork

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i cut the ends off, then make a slit going down one entire side. Then it just comes off
Put the clove under the flat side of a knife and press down with your palm until you hear a crunch. They're really easy to peel after that.
- This is by far the easiest and fastest method.
Kitchen trick:
Take the whole garlic head, and crumble it by hand over a sealable container to separate the cloves into.
Put the lid on tightly, then shake the everloving shit out of it.
Open the container, and voila! The meat is separated from the paper.
Enjoy!
- Or just lightly press on the clove with the flat of a knife until it crushes slightly. Skin will come off easily after that.
  
  While that works on a per clove basis, sometimes you need an entire head of garlic, and the shake method is the best and fastest.
- Cooking youtubers are great for tips like these. Can confirm works really well.
- If you just need pressed garlic, I was sceptical but learned that you can put them in a crusher without having to peel them first
  
  There's no way this is real. I had an aunt recommend this and I felt like 60+% of the garlic was stuck in the skin in the press?? You had a different experience?
- It's never as strong as fresh,and I use both.
Three words: Silicone Garlic Roller
Put a clove in. Roll it around. Peeled garlic comes out.
Best kitchen accessory ever.
This boy helps with the bureaucracy in 80% of situations
Edit: typo
- It's never as good as fresh tho.
  
  That's why you just add more lmao
  
  For sure in situations where fresh matters
  If you're cooking it for longer than 5 mins, chemically they're equivalent
- Nah, the frozen cubes of minced garlic are where it's at.
  That stuff in the tubes has added salt and oil and stuff and while yeah, it's delicious on toast with sliced tomatoes, it's crap for curry base and weird in hotpot.
Could someone explain the joke to me? I guess somewhere the skin of garlic is called paper? Or is there another play on words?
The only thing I've found on the garlic Wikipedia is the description of its skin as papery but that's it...
- I think the skin is the paper, the work is peeling it off... So it's lots of paper work.
  If you ask me onions are way worse, it's bad enough to make me cry.
- Hmm, maybe the info you're missing is that "paperwork" is a concrete thing?
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/paperwork
  Like, that's the whole joke, that the skin is papery and its removal is tedious, so you could also refer to the removal as "paperwork".
  
  Oh I'm aware of paper but didn't associate papery things with ... Well paper itself I guess that's the flaw. I wouldn't describe a tree as having a wooden expression either!

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