So here it is as promised: The Best Garlic Press in the World. Pressing whole cloves of garlic with ease is no longer an unattainable dream for the many weak-fisted people of the world. Caitlin, I thought you could put Freyja to the task now– she’s like, what? 8 months old?
I hope she’s a trust-fund baby though, I’m not going to make any bones about the price– it’s spendy. $45 from Williams Sonoma and a bit cheaper here.
The Rösle Garlic Press. All others are impostors.
My question is, how hard is it to clean out when you’re done? The cleaning is what always makes me resort to the costco jar or pre-crushed garlic, lacking in flavor and beauty.
Ah!! I was just thinking i need a garlic press really badly! And I have really weak wrists and fists. It’s pitiful. I can hardly use the rabbit wine opener, which is like the easiest one in the world.
Bad, bad Caitlin. Don’t use the pre crushed Costco garlic. Garlic presses are not that difficult to clean out.
Well, look who is all hoity toity! The groumet garlic, (and probably smelly fingered) Meghan!
It is VERY easy to clean. Another thing that makes it the best press.
You can get the garlic (or onion, fish, raw meat) smell off your fingers in seconds by rubbing them on stainless steel … either the steel rub bars shaped like soap or on the surface of a stainless sink. I don’t know why it works but it does.
http://www.google.com/search?q=garlic+smell+stainless+steel
Cool, Emeth, now I have no excuse for using my nasty cheap garlic!
No, no excuses, Caitlin. You heard Erin, ‘very easy to clean’.