The Easiest Way To Peel Garlic

We tested out four popular hacks to find out which was the best.

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[fionaelizabeth]

"Knives are scary" idk why that makes me laugh so hard

[simoncpu_was_here]

I just wasted 2 minutes of my life to watch a video that says "your current method of peeling garlic works."

[Hirukaki]

Can't believe the shaking one ranked so low! It's the only one that you don't have to fuss with picking all the bits of peel off!

[AurosOrion]

Winner: the thing that any Italian grandma could have told you to do.

[luke_fabis]

The shake method is highly dependent on the garlic cultivar. Loose skinned varieties and varieties with bigger cloves will peel faster than ones with firmer skin or smaller cloves. If you get the right kind of garlic, and you really put some sweat into it, you can peel a whole bulb in about 20 seconds.

[averney]

shaking looked best to me - why is a matter of seconds a long time, good grief.

[jonathanhodgdon]

I have a good method I came up with 30 years ago. You take a garlic clove and break off the end where the root is because it's usually hard and will the palms of your hands, step two place the clove on your palm put both your hands together and rub them two lossin the garlic skins to come completely off In a matter of seconds. That's it pretty effective and easy

[furygeist]

The easiest way I've found is to cut off the root end, then take the cloves and roll them between your hands while applying pressure. The peels come right off. The cloves maintain their shape and you don't have that hard bit on the end to bite into.

[krisscheen]

"knives are scary" lmao you're a freaking cooking channel XDD

[bartonez]

Shaking works really well, but just break up the garlic bulb a tiny bit first. I used an empty jar to shake, and you don't have to pull any skins off either. It's literally 30secs and done.

[Qeisama]

I thought crushing is the common method?

My mom always told me to crush the garlic before peeling and mincing/dicing it into the recipe (or sometimes just use the crushed garlic as it is).

[MipperMipperdoo]

Shaking it is actually the "professional" way to peel large amounts of garlic. since crushing it gets the oil into your cutting board, so it doesn't have as much flavor, and makes your hands smell like garlic.

But that's not really important lol

[WienArtist]

I either roll them in a silicone garlic peeler or simply rolling the clove between my palms. The peeling comes off easily. If the clove is too flat, I just pinch it a bit between my fingers until I hear the peeling "snap". Very easy!

[annieclark]

i always do the crushing one and was hoping for a faster route than that

[taylorchanna]

Tasty ALWAYS comes through!!! I needed this today to do my garlic confit.

[beck]

Tip: If you're gonna try the shaking one, you could smash it on the counter and roughly separate them before continuing. That way, you'll take about 20 seconds.

[scottcooper]

When I saw the shaking (inside two bowls) method, they broke the head of garlic apart before putting them in the bowl and shaking. When they did that, it DID take just 20 seconds. In this video, they left the head of garlic intact o of course it took longer.

[melemetcalf]

Just got a bag of garlic from Costco. Took me about an hour to peel most of it to store in a freeze. I used the shake method but in a mason jar. It made it easier, but didn't get all of it. I don't have steel bowls.

[DreamWeaverArtisan]

Saved me. I'm only a quarter of the way through 3 lbs of garlic and I can't take the burning pain in my fingers anymore. Looked on here and found your video. Cruising is best!!! Thank you for saving me from additional pain!!

[carstenjorgensen]

Glad to see the method I use (and didn't know was a thing until I figured it out on my own) got 4 out of 5. None of my recipes call for intact cloves, all minced/diced, so I've never thought about the shape issue with crushing.
Still going to try the other options to see if I like them. This includes simply just stabbing a clove with a butter knife an pulling it out, which seems quick and efficient, but will probably depend on how tightness of the peel.