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Anonymous Wed Jul 29 15:30:35 2015 No.6728141 [Reply] [Original]

My parents were always heavy drinkers since I can remember. A pitcher of martinis on week nights and Saturday and Sunday it's Bloody Mary's to start and then onto Whiskey Sours in the afternoons, and martinis at night. When my Dad left, my Mom increased her intake and is pretty much half in the bag most days by noon. My problem is that for my birthday and at Christmas she always gives me the same thing: a $50 U.S. Savings bond and a garlic press. The money is fine but I have now accumulated over 2 dozen garlic presses. When I moved out 12 years ago, I must have mentioned how I liked Italian food with plenty of garlic and this set Mom on a path to make sure I good get all the garlicky goodness out of every clove. The problem is is tha I used a garlic press once and found it to be totally useless and a real pain to clean. So I'm stuck with all these garlic presses and I even though I have told Mom I don;t need anymore, her alcoholism seems to erase her memory about this five minutes after I tell her. My Dad has been sober for many years and he can;t offer any advice other than say thanks, and toss the thing away.

What should I do?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 15:33:22 2015 No.6728150 >>6728141 Just continue to accept them and then sell them on craigslist or ebay or something.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 15:33:24 2015 No.6728152 >>6728141 Sell presses to some sucker on Ebay. Seek counseling for your family's alcoholism.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 15:33:30 2015 No.6728153 >>6728141 Give them away at the bar

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 15:41:11 2015 No.6728182 Timestamp pic with all the presses please.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 16:03:54 2015 No.6728230 Stash them all over her house. Just in all random drawers and what not. Then she at least won't buy you new ones and just give you the same ones, maybe.

>>	Captain Faggot Wed Jul 29 16:09:07 2015 No.6728239 File: 436 KB, 2271x2380, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] > A pitcher of martinis

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 16:10:14 2015 No.6728243 Was that entire blog post really necessary

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 16:10:21 2015 No.6728245 >>6728239 I'm not sure he understands that's just 2 bottles of gin

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 16:14:51 2015 No.6728253 File: 30 KB, 388x532, 1430472062426.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >my alcoholic mother can't stop purchasing garlic presses

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 16:16:03 2015 No.6728256 Fuck you, OP. My mom is dead and i have zero garlic presses.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 16:19:27 2015 No.6728269 Time stamp of all the presses OP

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 16:37:21 2015 No.6728317 >>6728141 10/10 post. You can also use them for horseradish root and ginger root too. The rest? Goodwill or pawn if you're lazy. Craigslist if you less, ebay if you have endurance.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 16:43:04 2015 No.6728341 >>6728141 make a garlic altar out of garlic presses

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Anonymous Thu Jul 30 10:32:53 2015 No.6730662

They are easy to use.

Cut garlic into managable pieces.
Cut the things that come off with a knife.
Wash from the outside in to push the membrane that gathers and blocks the holes, from the outside in.

If you do this, they are a breeze to clean and easy to use.

The only issue is the limit of garlic you can crush at one time.

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Anonymous Thu Jul 30 10:38:53 2015 No.6730674

>>6730662
I always used to just put the clove in without peeling off the skin which meant I had to pick it out after every crush. I eventually became slightly less retarded and started peeling/chopping them up before putting them in. Much faster and much easier to clean. It just rinses off.

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Anonymous Thu Jul 30 10:49:14 2015 No.6730702

>>6730662

Why bother with any of that?

Just smack the garlic clove with the flat side of a knife or similar object. The skin and the little hard part where the clove attaches to the bulb fall right off with no effort. With a little practice you don't even need to chop it. Want coarse pieces? Smack lightly. Want little pieces? smack harder.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 11:20:23 2015 No.6730780 >>6730702 this

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Anonymous Thu Jul 30 11:27:44 2015 No.6730794

>>6730702
Ok I've seen this done but I can't replicate the results. I can do the little whack to loosen the skin but when I crush them they don't disintegrate, they just sort of 'squash'. Am I severely underestimating the amount of force needed or is speed a big factor? It's not really something I can practice over and over.
I'd like to not have to use a garlic press because I'm such a slow cook and any time saving is welcome.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 11:31:10 2015 No.6730801 >>6728245 Don't forget to coat the pitcher with a splash of dry vermouth first.

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Anonymous Thu Jul 30 11:36:34 2015 No.6730809

>>6730794
>they don't disintegrate, they just sort of 'squash
smack harder.

>> It's not really something I can practice over and over.
Why not? Garlic is cheap, and a single head provides a couple dozen cloves to practice with. If you don't want to waste the garlic by throwing it away then use this as an excuse to make a recipe that calls for a lot of garlic.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 11:38:12 2015 No.6730815 >save garlic presses >invest savings bonds >open garlic press store Too easy.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 11:47:46 2015 No.6730836 >>6730809 I have like a mental aversion to throwing away unused food. I hate throwing away anything really. If I didn't have a sense of perspective I'd probably be a hoarder. I've also seen ginger smashed in the same way which I'm more interested in.

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Anonymous Thu Jul 30 11:52:48 2015 No.6730848

>>6730836

Then get over it. You're not "wasting" anything even if you throw away the garlic--what you're getting out of it is practice and education. Think of it like paying for materials for a class. Very cheap materials.

And like I said, if you do have some oddball hangup over it then just use the garlic in a dish. A few things I can think of off the top of my head that would use a lot of garlic:
-make sausage
-"40 clove chicken" (google it)
-mashed potatoes (if you put the garlic in the water in which you boil the potatoes you will find that you need quite a lot)
-make fried crispy garlic to use as a garnish for various foods

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 11:53:08 2015 No.6730850 >>6728141 >pitcher of martinis

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Anonymous Thu Jul 30 11:59:44 2015 No.6730869

>>6730848
I'm aware the world will keep on turning whether I throw away some garlic or use it, it just makes me feel bad anyway.
It doesn't matter anyway because I use garlic about 95% of the time. In fact I usually use a little more because fuck yeah garlic. Same with ginger. And chili.

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Anonymous Thu Jul 30 12:01:45 2015 No.6730874

>>6730836
>I've also seen ginger smashed in the same way which I'm more interested in.

Yeah, that works just like the garlic. Remember to cut the ginger across the grain, and you might have to smack it rather hard or with a heavy object depending on how firm the ginger is.