Garlic Press

We eat a lot of garlic. It goes in most of the dishes we prepare. We have been buying fresh garlic. Doug found some instructions on the internet about how to prepare garlic for cooking. It involved a very large knife which he did not want me to use. So he has always minced or chopped the garlic. I peel it for him first.

This weekend we were running errands and I asked if we could stop by Bed, Bath & Beyond to see if they had a tool to do this for us. And naturally they had all kinds of tools. We chose the one pictured below because it will press and peel. This photo shows how nice the garlic looks after using the garlic press. So now I can do this myself. But I must warn you, it is hard to clean it if you don't have a dishwasher (which we don't). This one cost us $14.99.