🧄 Black garlic maker review | How to make black garlic at home | French garlic

⚜️ Black garlic makers are available worldwide, try one out with me here in the South of France, the land of garlic par excellence!

Black garlic is a wonderfully international delicacy, invented a few decades ago in Korea and now enjoyed around the world. I love the stuff. I can't get enough of it. That's because it's expensive to buy pre-made. The good news is that black garlic machines are now available worldwide too. I just invested in one to make my own and I'm trying it here with you and for you for the first time. I'll share my first impressions, show you how I use it for the first time, taste the results, explain the pros and cons I discovered, suggest a few easy ways to serve black garlic. While black garlic makers themselves are pricey, if you love black garlic as much as I do, you'll soon recoup your investment.

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Quick Reference (chapters)
00:00 Intro & fermenting garlic or the maillard effect

01:22 Unboxing the black garlic maker & first impressions
05:19 filling the black garlic maker
07:22 plugging in the black garlic maker
07:59 black garlic maker results
11:39 conclusion and serving suggestions

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[grimmbartaffe]

Great video, great sophisticated presentation and quite the same experience what I had made with the new fermenter. The garlic is much sweeter and more rich after a few days of drying (in the air). I am very happy . My fermenter has a few more functions for natto, fruit vinegar and rice wine but the most importatant thing is just to ferment the black garlic. Mostly if people use a common rice cooker for it, it lasts much longer (2-3 weeks) and- I am so happy-this fermenter need 7-9 days to get the same result. Good for energy consumption and good for the environment. Thank you and greeting from Berlin Germany to this wonderful place and person :).

[tinacarola]

Just bought the same machine. First day using it, I put it outside because of the strong smell. Can’t wait to eat it next week. Thanks for the excellent video

[GuilfordGardenCT]

An amazing review and well done. Gorgeous, gorgeous top as white is my favorite color haha. I want to play in your close lol. Great video and loving the uploads❤️

[CuriousEarthMan]

Thank you for the video! I would have liked to see the full programming process. I wonder if the drying function is meant for raw garlic, to make regular garlic powder or for storage in dried clove form? Looks really great to see it work, thank you for your time!

[faroukentertainment]

Your channels 1st product review!! Awesome job 👏.

[elreconnection]

Congratulations on the video you made. I'd like to ask you a question. Where is it best kept and how long is it preserved?

[davidhughes]

Thank you for a well informed and articulated video. I came across your video by chance and just loved your unruffled and methodical presentation. Great job. I have had Black Gatlic before that I bought from a shop and was amazed at how sweet it tasted. Will certainly buy one and start making BG myself. Thank you again. 👍👍🙏🙏

[jeffreypinder]

Thanks, will be trying this. Your video is the most informative.

[rhondabaker]

Thank you for the great video! I wasn't as successful as you. I bought the exact same machine and tried it with 7 sm/med heads of garlic for 9 days. Sadly, all were dry and hard like charcoal. They taste burnt. I will try grinding them into powder, so hopefully it's not a total waste. Have you tried it yet with smaller garlic, if so, how did it turn out? The temp on my machine stayed around 77C for several days then down to 55 then back to 77 for the last few days.

[Robert-itfb]

Thanks for your video. I just bought a machine that is similar to yours but has a few more functions. My first batch will be done in just a few hours, using my default setting of 9 days. Haven't opened the lid yet. Hope I don't have black stones like some of your other commenters. How do you store your black garlic? I am thinking a mason jar in the refrigerator for up to a month or two? And do you let it cure in open air for a week or ten days first? Sorry to be picking your brain. Thanks again. Regards from Monterrey, Mexico.

[rhondabaker]

You mentioned that you were going to make a video with a recipe using the garlic. I went to your channel and didn't find anything. Did. you make a video and I'm not finding it? Thank you! I love your videos.

[amyahdocq]

Bonjour! I just found you and am very interested in the black garlic. I just bought the machine and am interested in the recipes video you talk about. Now, I see that this video was posted few years ago so I went to your main page and... I haven't find that video. Is it posted or am I looking at the wrong place? And I love your surrounding... I miss France sooo much 🌹

[pilaresteban]

The machine can be use for other things like yogurt making, my question is if the machine retains the smell of garlic that will affect making other foods. Many thanks.

[KeeKeeSoto]

I have been trying to figure out how to make black garlic without purchasing a machine but I think I'm gonna have to cough up the coins. Thank you for another fabulous video. I fell in love with black garlic at a farmers market yrs ago sampled with fig & gruyere on a toasted baguette.

[daz.r]

I have the same black garlic maker. I have put it on for 12 days. I have 6 days to go now.

[leslikuyweski]

This is so interesting to me! I've never tried black garlic., But I'm certainly going to. I've never seen it in my grocery store but I'm sure Whole Foods or Trader Joe's will have it. I couldn't help but notice the beautiful scenery also! Take care!

[domidomi]

Je viens de recevoir la machine...Let's go ! 😊

[thelittlesignpost]

Oh wow, you bought the same machine as I have! Good thing I found your video as I really wanted to know how other people have got on with this great machine. I am using single-tone Thai Garlic, you can just fill the cage with as many individual bulbs as you like. The benefit is you can pop them into your mouth one by one and they are really yummy! I am going to try black garlic butter with my latest batch, loving this experience, thanks for your great video with your blockbuster garlic (never seen garlic that big)! I love the smell around my lean-to shelter on the side of my house, there is a through flow of air, so you can catch a waft of the sweet caramelization (Maillard reaction) process every so often! There is nothing on earth that smells so appetizing!

[elreconnection]

Congratulations on the video you made. I'd like to ask you a question. Where is it best kept and how long is it preserved

[elietedarce]

I have a rice cooker and is the same pot shape & dimensions of a garlic incubator from Aliexpress. They just turn it into a incubator by using slower electric heater and a digital timer and temperature controll. It don't have moisture control.