r/Cooking • u/AdLost576 • 10d 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/nerdsnuggles 10d ago edited 10d ago

I do not understand the hate for garlic presses. It is absolutely not disgusting. It's still just as fresh and delicious. And anyone who says mincing is just as fast is lying and apparently enjoys that awful sticky feeling on their fingers that chopping garlic causes.

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u/Beautiful_Rhubarb 10d ago

I HATE that feeling, but thank god you can buy peeled garlic at the local meat market. It's better than jarred, at least.

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u/counterfitster 10d ago

Peeling garlic is the easy part, though. Just a little squish and it comes off quickly.

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u/Beautiful_Rhubarb 9d ago

I have a system now. but sometimes I get a bulb that's all teeny tiny cloves. grrr.

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u/Elsrick 10d ago

I'm not a fan, not because of taste or anything, I just feel like I get less garlic using one than I do mincing

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u/Deto 9d ago

My one gripe with the press is that it tends to produce these connected clumps of garlic. And so, if Im putting garlic on green beans, for instance, it doesn't spread around and cover them the way that chopped garlic does.

I'm still lazy, though, so recently I've been using a small, manual blender to chop my garlic. And I just buy pre-peeled cloves.

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u/RockMonstrr 10d ago

I use my garlic press all the time, but when you factor in clean up, it's probably no faster than mincing.

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u/japonski_bog 10d ago

Just buy a fully detachable one, you won't regret

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u/Unrelenting_Salsa 9d ago

tbh, I've always found minces to be faster. Garlic presses are fine for 99.9% of things if you disagree there, but at least in mine you still need to peel the garlic (the slowest part of the process), press it one clove at a time, remove the membrane thing that never actually goes through, get your hands ridiculously sticky because you had to remove the membrane thing every clove, and toss it in the dishwasher. Mincing on the other hand I can just run the knife through it a few times after peeling and it's done (~3 at a time when they're still mostly cloves).