SC - Peeling garlic and chopping onions

[Elaine Koogler]

Best recommendation I can make is that you look at your local Sam's or Costco
and see if they have the plastic jars (in the refrigerated section, I think) of
whole peeled cloves of garlic.  Or, if you don't need the whole cloves, you can
buy it minced.

If you insist on peeling them yourselves, a trick I was shown was to press down
on the clove with the flat side of a knife to crack the peel.  That did seem to
work fairly well, and you don't get quite so much garlic juice on your hands.

The coffee based soap I mentioned in an earlier post also works on garlic....not
sure about the stainless steel thingee.

Kiri

Stefan li Rous wrote:

> 'Lainie said:
> > And I have one of those no-onion bars. It really works- they claim
> > something about ionization. I don't care why. But what's bad about the
> > smell of onions?
>
> Thank you for this message, Lainie. I've seen those no-onion bars in
> the store and wondered if they worked or were just a gimmick. I have
> some plate stainless steel pieces around here, but they are only 1/16
> thick so they might be rather rough on your hands even if the edges
> were rounded well. Maybe I'll buy one of these bars. Do they work
> on garlic and other odors?
>
> Along that line of garlic, since there have been some recent recipes
> here that required a lot of peeled garlic (1 1/2 cups?), do you all
> have any recommendations on peeling garlic? I got better as I got
> along, but it still took a while to peel that many garlic cloves.
> I remember seeing some plastic? sheets that you wrapped around the
> clove and then rolled between your fingers. I was rolling the each
> clove between my hands this last time, but sometimes it worked better
> on some cloves than others. And my hands did smell like garlic for
> quite a while.
>
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