the.com/garlic press
the kitchen gadget chefs love to mock and home cooks refuse to surrender.
means A handheld kitchen tool that crushes peeled garlic cloves through small holes to produce a fine pulp without chopping.
from A plain compound of "garlic" and "press." "Garlic" comes from Old English garleac, a marriage of gar ("spear," for the plant's pointed leaves) and leac ("leek" or pot-herb) — so literally "spear-leek." "Press" descends through Old French presser from Latin pressare, to push or squeeze. The compound name is modern, arriving with the gadget itself; the device became a common household object in the 20th century.
- chef beef
- Anthony Bourdain told everyone to throw theirs out
- chemistry
- crushing triggers allicin, garlic's pungent self-defense weapon
- no peel
- most presses work on unpeeled cloves fine
- ancient roots
- garlic-crushing tools date back thousands of years
- flavor science
- finer the crush, sharper and hotter the bite
for instance
zyliss garlic press — swiss-made competitor, popular in europe since the 1970s