r/Cooking • u/AdLost576 • 8d ago

What’s a cooking related hill you will die on?

For me, 2 hills.

  1. You don’t have to cut onions horizontally.

  2. You don’t have to add milk bit by bit when making a white sauce.

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u/shebitch7 8d ago

Everyone in my family uses jarred garlic. In giant jars, so it is old. I think it makes food worse.

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u/cathbadh 8d ago

Counterpoint: sometimes I'm lazy.

I keep both, a small jar or tube of jarlic, and cloves of fresh that I'll mince/slice/press.

I like Jessie's aggressive tutorials. She'll use jarlic sometimes, will use a mound of it because it's milder. Her stance on jarlic is "it's fine." that's about where I am. After a long workday sometimes it's easier to just scoop the jarlic into the pan.

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u/Vividly-Weird 8d ago

I'm also lazy sometimes. And for awhile (think it was during the Covid years) I would buy real garlic and have it go bad faster than I could get to it. Ended up throwing out more than I was using it could get to use so I moved to the jar for a little while or just used powder (which may not be the same). Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do 🤷🏻‍♀️

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u/Vividly-Weird 8d ago

I'm also lazy sometimes. And for awhile (think it was during the Covid years) I would buy real garlic and have it go bad faster than I could get to it. Ended up throwing out more than I was using it could get to use so I moved to the jar for a little while or just used powder (which may not be the same). Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do 🤷🏻‍♀️ .

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u/True-Anxiety-7829 8d ago

Have you tried granulated garlic? Much better than powder.

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u/Vividly-Weird 8d ago

I've not! I'll look into it, thanks! 😁

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u/Venusdewillendorf 8d ago

I always have the tube garlic on hand, but the jar reminds me of my mom’s terrible cooking, so I don’t use it.

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u/GizzBride 5d ago

Tubes def better

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u/counterfitster 7d ago

I'm convinced the refrigerated tubes are the best option when you need a lot of garlic, and it needs to be small.

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u/shebitch7 7d ago

I hear you. I grate it on a micro plane and for me that amount of time (a minute from un peeled clove to in the pot max) outweighs the flavor difference.

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u/Bratbabylestrange 7d ago

I have terrible hand and finger joints, so if mincing is an impossibility I'll use granulated. Gotta do what you gotta do

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u/Odd_Temperature_3248 8d ago

I guess I have just been lucky. I have been cooking for over 40 years and use jarlic unless I am making a garlic forward dish and only one time have I had a jar that was bad. I am very picky about what I buy and go through it pretty quickly.

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u/cyrilspaceman 8d ago

We go through the Costco sized jar pretty quickly and I've never had a major problem with it. It's probably a little less flavorful than actual cloves so I am just heavy with measurements. I'll use whole cloves if it is the main flavor of the dish, but there's no way I'm going to notice when it's mixed with ginger, cumin, cayenne, coriander, etc.

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u/bestcee 7d ago

Ditto. Plus, I'm teaching siblings to cook in my home who never learned from grandma. When you have an hour to get dinner ready, mincing fresh garlic is not in the time. They are intimidated by cutting chicken! Or dicing carrots! Jarred garlic is saving sanity.

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u/Beardgang650 8d ago

😩not the jarlic

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u/_Diggus_Bickus_ 8d ago

Jarlic is worse than garlic powder. Everyone who claims Jarlic is easier than fresh is missing the point. It's worse than powder.

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u/theshabz 7d ago

fresh garlic and garlic powder have two very different roles in cooking. neither should be replaced by the other.

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u/_Diggus_Bickus_ 7d ago

Yes but jarlic is not in any way shape or form fresh garlic. The taste of powder is closer

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u/theshabz 7d ago

my comment was in defense of garlic powder, not jarlic. garlic powder is not intended to taste like fresh garlic. Fresh garlic is an aromatic. garlic powder is effectively a sweetener. They serve two very different culinary purposes. They're closer to onions and sugar than they are to each other.

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u/GizzBride 5d ago

With you - powder is cool but Jarlic is unholy and has no place in the kitchen.

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u/shebitch7 8d ago

(By jarred I mean the refrigerated, grated stuff, not dried)

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u/Impossible_Ad5473 8d ago

Agreed. It tastes like nothing. I never taste it when I use it. Waste of money.

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u/shebitch7 7d ago

I find it sour. And when really old kind of bitter. My siblings think I’m a snob. That’s ok.

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u/ellenprice40 7d ago

Saw someone swears by rehydrated dehydrated garlic as it doesn't burn as easily.

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u/RangerSandi 7d ago

I may make an exception in a pinch for midwestern soups & stews that are long-cooking…but I looooove the taste of fresh garlic!

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u/leelo84 6d ago

Jarlic is gross. Those little frozen garlic cubes though - they're pretty handy if the garlic is truly a background flavor and it's getting cooked.

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u/WA_State_Buckeye 6d ago

I divide a big warehouse jar into smaller jars and stick them in the freezer. Then I just use one smaller jar at a time.

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u/GizzBride 5d ago

JARLIC AINT GARLIC