To me, that basically meant garlic time with added food in which to soak up garlic. Step one in this almost weekly pasta-sauce staple is peeling lots of garlic, warming up some olive oil and sauteing that wonderful stuff into a fragrant, heavenly base. Tonight was no different than any other -- I have not somehow gained Clark Kentian forearms -- and yet the second squeeze of garlic cloves through my OXO "Good Grips" Garlic Press rendered it completely useless. It snapped in half.
OXO's product description explains that this press has "sturdy, die-cast zinc construction and a large capacity garlic chamber" which certainly give it the illusion of heft and strength, but what they don't mention is that the hinge -- the most important part in the mechanics of the thing --
And check out that price: $14.99? Puh-lease. If I'm going to fork over more than a Hamilton [or four] for a garlic press, next time I'll go with one I've heard good things about: the Rösle Garlic Press. I'm not sure if I'm ready to spring $37.95, but she sure is one fine looking piece of metal.
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The very same problem led me to take the plunge and fork out the dough for the Rösle Garlic Press. I was apprehensive at first (as was my wife - $40 for a garlic press?) but now I'll never go back and neither will my wife. Take the plunge, Mandy, take the plunge.
i feel your pain, mandy. the garlic press is one of my most used utensils. i recommend the michael graves press they sell at target. it works well and it looks good.
I had no idea that there was such a cult of garlic presses.
PS: Award for one of the finest first lines yet: "It was pasta time."
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