But it takes more than a great garlic peeler to remove effectively peel your garlic. So before I get to our favorite garlic peelers I am going to show you the correct technique. How to use a silicone garlic peeler Anybody who enjoys cooking from scratch will know that garlic is an absolute staple and a decent garlic crusher or garlic grinder will make adding it into your dishes and dips just that little bit easier. Whether you dislike the smell of garlic on your fingers or just don’t fancy spending time and effort finely dicing with a knife, the best garlic crusher will remove these problems in an instant.

This one’s our favorite garlic peeler. While the OXO garlic peeler may look similar to other silicone tube style peelers on the market, it has one unique feature that gives it an edge – its shape! But no matter how you use garlic, there is one thing you will have to do first. Peel away the papery skin.It is also worth mentioning that those impossibly small garlic cloves, the kind that is almost too small to use, are difficult to peel even with a top-performing garlic peeler. Clean it– If you look inside your garlic peeler you will see the skin left behind. Shake the skin out over your trash can before peeling your next batch of garlic.

There are plenty of garlic crushers out there on the market and while few are outright expensive, some are suspiciously cheap. Broken or badly made presses aren’t the sort of thing you want cluttering your kitchen drawer. So we’ve put together this guide to help you find the best garlic crusher for your needs, followed by a round up of recommended garlic crushers for every budget. Best garlic crusher: At a glance

That’s where garlic peelers come in. Garlic peelers are an inexpensive tool that efficiently removes the skin from small to medium batches of garlic. While a garlic peeler won’t be able to peel enough garlic for a restaurant, they are more than suitable for at-home cooking.

The BPA-free Silicone is thin yet sturdy, allowing you to easily apply pressure to the garlic as you roll. Despite being thin, the silicone is long lasting. One of the testers commented that this same garlic peeler had lasted her three years and was still going strong.

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Tilt it!– If you tilt the garlic peeler your skinless garlic cloves should slide right out of the silicone tube. Occasionally a clove may come out with the skin still attached but this should come off with the lightest of touches. Chef’n Twist’n Peel Garlic Peeler– When it comes to complicated garlic peelers the Chef’n goes all out. Not only is it overly bulky for what is a single-use kitchen gadget but it just doesn’t work well. In addition to this, twisting the garlic peels off is difficult and if the cloves are not of an identical size the smaller of the cloves will not be peeled. When cleaning time comes around water is trapped under the silicone insert on the base and did not dry after two days. Some of the peelers we tested were essentially a square of silicone that rolled up into a tube. While the split may have made cleaning away garlic skin an easier task, they presented more problems than they solved.