welcome friends have you been watching Twitter and that garlic peeling hack
that has taken Twitter by storm I watched it and I gotta tell you
I've tried really hard and I've sort of almost mastered it and like any shortcut
or hack or cooking technique that you need to learn you need to learn the
technique and there's a secret behind this and I'm gonna let you in on that
but for the most part I've almost got it perfect so you take your knife and you
put it into the clove sort of at the bottom you put it in three-quarters of
the way and then you twist and pull and it comes out just like that really kind
of neat put it in twist and sometimes you'll get a little bit of paper that's
still on the outside but at that point you've broken it to the point where it
just peels off really easily like that put it into your pile now here is the
trick it took me forever to figure this out I
went through a lot of garlic yesterday cutting and trying and testing and I
just couldn't come up with anything and the first thing I thought was maybe it's
the garlic I'm using most garlic's sold in supermarkets in North America is
grown in China at this point vast majority and it's soft neck garlic and
it doesn't react the same way so I thought okay I'm gonna go out and get
some hardneck garlic and try that and I had no luck either way and then Julie
came home and she looked at the video and she said well duh
you've got to do this and here's what she did and this is how we mastered it
first thing you need is a really sharp paring knife and a short thick paring
knife works better I found you take your bulb of garlic
safety caveat if you're someone in the kitchen who is clumsy and doesn't work
well with knives and is prone to cutting yourself don't use this method there are
far better ways for you to peel garlic but if you're confident in the kitchen
with a really sharp knife here's what you do hold your garlic down on your
cutting board with the root end up you take your knife and
you hold it really well and you just cut here at the bottom where the clove of
garlic meets the root you need to sever this and I got to tell you it is tough
to do on some garlic you're not going to be able to get your knife in no matter
how sharp it is and you just have to work it around and don't pry
the bulbs out you just want to break the connection to the root keep your fingers
out of the way and just work your way around this little bit of prep is going
to make all the difference okay now once you've cut around the root end so you
take your garlic bulb root side up take your knife and put it in sort of here
about two-thirds of the way down put your knife in a fairway and then you
twist and out it comes same on the next one put your knife in very gently twist
and out it comes along we go put your knife in twist and pull it out is it
perfect now it's not perfect is it going to work
99% of the time yeah is it easier than doing it another way definitely if I had
to peel a lot of garlic in the kitchen for some dish this is definitely the way
to go so give it a try let us know in the comments what you
think thanks for stopping by see you again soon