Removing Garlic Skin

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Removing Garlic Skin

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http://www.durgan.org/URL/?RFYLU 27 January 2012 Removing Garlic Skin

Removing garlic skins from the cloves can often be a tedious job. This method reduces the effort considerably. Method: Cut the hairs off the root end of the garlic bulb. Shorten the stem end. Smack the bulb with a closed hand to break the cloves apart. Remove any loose skin. Place in a suitable container. Shake vigorously. Dump contents on a board and remove any skin clinging to the cloves. Most of the skin will be removed by the shaking in the container, and any parts remaining are much loosened, and may be simply picked off. The bare garlic cloves are vacuum stored in a mason jar in the refrigerator.

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i just give it a bash with a big knife then the skin just falls off
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Hmm, me too and especially as I only use them one or two cloves at a time, not the whole bulb.
Mind you I do freeze a few prepared cloves to use later in the year when the stored ones start sprouting.
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Sorry to bring this up over and over,but I just dont see how you vacuum seal a mason\kilner jar with one of those vacuum seal thingies from lidl.Praps I'm being really stupid,but if there's a technique I'd find that truly useful,as I have to use the pressure cooker thing most of the time(unless it's strawberry jam\marmalade etc which is usually eaten before it's cooled down properly!)

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oldjerry wrote:Sorry to bring this up over and over,but I just dont see how you vacuum seal a mason\kilner jar with one of those vacuum seal thingies from lidl.Praps I'm being really stupid,but if there's a technique I'd find that truly useful,as I have to use the pressure cooker thing most of the time(unless it's strawberry jam\marmalade etc which is usually eaten before it's cooled down properly!)
http://www.durgan.org/URL/?ERTQK 26 January 2012 Vacuum Sealing mason jars using Food Saver

This is a method of vacuum sealing any jar with a suitable gaskets lid, which will fit into the selected larger container. My requirement is for mason jars one litre of smaller. For larger jars a taller vacuum chamber will be required.

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I use one of those little bits of flexible plastic tubing. Stick the clove in it, roll the tube between your palms and hey presto - one skinned clove. The only trouble is that OH keeps finding the tubes and thinking to herself why I would want to keep a bit of rubbish in that particular drawer - so she throws them out on a regular basis. She has a mental block here - I cannot get her to recognise a useful bit of kit which looks like plastic scrap. :dontknow:

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demi wrote:i just give it a bash with a big knife then the skin just falls off
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I've got a technique of slicing through the bottom of the clove and pulling up so that half of the skin comes off in one movement and the other halve can just be flicked off with said knife. But yes there little worse then going to sleep and smelling raw garlic trapped under your fingernails.

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ajs88 wrote:I've got a technique of slicing through the bottom of the clove and pulling up so that half of the skin comes off in one movement and the other halve can just be flicked off with said knife. But yes there little worse then going to sleep and smelling raw garlic trapped under your fingernails.
I use this technique too! But its a bit fiddly when peeling some home-grown cloves (some very quite small). I read a top tip somewhere though, and this really actually works! When your hands are all garlicky, wash them under COLD water. Hot water 'cooks' the smelly oils into your skin, cold water rinses them off.

Truly works!

Kate :icon_smile:

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