Joseph Joseph Garlic Rocker Crusher Mincer Press Dishwasher Safe, Stainless Steel

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You can only process one clove at a time, though, as otherwise the gadget will struggle under the strain but clean up is exceptionally easy. While the absolute cheapest option might not always be the best choice, this excellent value garlic press walks the line between affordability and functionality well enough to be worth your time. Cleaning your garlic press as soon as possible is easiest—giving it a few dunks in a bowl of soapy water or running it under the faucet water usually does the trick. Cookies collect information about your preferences and your devices and are used to make the site work as you expect it to, to understand how you interact with the site, and to show advertisements that are targeted to your interests.

You are also treated to a metal scraper that effortlessly removes crushed garlic from the inside of the loop. I grow hard-neck garlic, and one variety produces four to six huge cloves in heads that can be the size of my fist. The built-in cleaner snapped into the handle, but would pop out about 75% of the time when we were crushing cloves. However, there are occasions when the garlic would get caught on the protrusions of the press instead – this was easy to clean up as it came with a detachable plastic brush.There was a minimum of garlic waste at the end of prep, and the pressing plate swings out to allow a good scrub of the nicely weighted casing.

This ingenious garlic crusher also gives cooks the option to slice bulbs, which can be useful for dishes like slow-cooked lamb or dauphinoise potatoes, when the garlic will soften and mellow in larger pieces.This ProCook garlic press was the cheapest of the ones we tested and it was also one of the lightest. It doesn’t feel even remotely as sturdy as the Männkitchen or Kuhn Rikon (the handles are a little flexible when you squeeze), but after crushing clove after clove of garlic, we have no reason to believe this press would break any time soon. Of course, garlic mashed potatoes are the original and, arguably, most iconic way to use freshly pressed cloves.

Softer handles made it comfortable to squeeze and the no-frills design made thorough cleaning easy, too, using the short spikes on the outer casing to press through and clear the holes of residue.After crushing countless cloves of garlic using 10 garlic presses from leading brands, we’ve discovered some really great ones out there even for dedicated garlic mincers. She particularly loves all types of fusion cooking, mixing the best of different food cultures to make interesting and unique dishes. Neither performs particularly better than the other—we tested them both and highly approved of each—so this just comes down to preference. GARLIC ROCKET ONE brings an end to peeling garlic because GARLIC ROCKET ONE crushes unpeeled garlic cloves. The square-shaped holes in the hopper perfectly press the garlic into small cubes that are easy to cook with.

The mesh plate swings out, which makes for really easy cleaning: Most of the garlic skin that remains in the press slides out easily. as well as the size of the holes: Small, round holes make more of a paste, while larger, square holes create a mince. Despite being the biggest of the garlic presses we tried, the Zwilling pro garlic press has in fact been created with minimalism in mind. We started by crushing a single clove of peeled garlic in each press to see how much or little waste they created (Editor’s note: You can press unpeeled garlic, it’s just messier and you lose some garlic along the way).When it’s time to crush, take a tiny nip of the end of a clove and peel the papery skin before popping in your press. There was a fair amount of garlic left behind when using both peeled and unpeeled cloves, but tapping the press and manual scraping of the garlic removed all residue. If you’ve ever slogged through chopping and chopping endless cloves on a cutting board, you know this all too well. Epicurious may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. You could just use a knife to mince garlic, but it is a very fine cut and requires more control over your knife than chopping.