The Rösle Garlic Press (Amazon link)It reliably crushes even two cloves at once. You don't have to keep cleaning it as you use it. And when you're done, you swing out the grate and put it under the tap and rinse it off, done. None of that "is all the garlic out yet?" stuff, and it doesn't have one of those plastic "cleaner" thingies that will
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Admittedly, I've not used this particular press, but having prepared about 48,721[*] cloves of garlic on my 10 years of restaurant work, I never found a press that was more efficient or effective than a good chef's knife.
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Mincing garlic is firmly in the category of things one should be able to do but then can freely avoid.
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IME, mincing garlic and dicing onions with a proper chef's knife is a *great* way to impress... those whom one wants to impress. Provided of course that one finishes with the same number of fingers as one started with.
It's true, actually. I'm a kitchen luddite.
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Being a luddite is easier when you're good at the task with simple tools. Technology means anyone can do the job.
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