Thank You Thursday: awesome garlic edition 3 November 2011 1:14 pm
Posted by Tracy in : cooking,food as spectator sport,friends,fun,thank you Thursday,video , trackbackToday’s “Thank you” is first and foremost to my friend Chris, who shared an awesome pro tip on Google Reader back when that meant something beyond clicking “+1″ on a link for all the world to see but not really notice (you know, like before a few days ago?) Anyway, when I made a note to blog about the item in question, I made sure to cut and paste the message Chris sent with it, because yay for awesomeness (and another thing I will miss about the old Google Reader):
TrAAA-CY!
Thanks also for that message, Chris, it made me grin. And here is the highlight video of the good news, which also made the rounds among my Facebook contacts a month or so ago, and which has made my kitchen a louder but more delicious place:
How to Peel a Head of Garlic in Less Than 10 Seconds from SAVEUR.com on Vimeo.
So there it is. Yay! My reply (again, in Reader, back when such a thing was possible, and I know I am old and cranky and hate and fear change but wah wah wah all the same) was: “I KNOW! So awesome.” And it is. Also, Chris’ brother (?) Evan pointed out that it is possible to do the same thing with just a few garlic cloves in a plastic Tupperware or similar, to which I can only add that I highly recommend using a transparent container so you can easily see when you’ve successfully shaken the cloves out of their peels. Yay again!
And just for completeness, here is the original Saveur post that sent this video and technique all over the intertweetplusfaces. Thanks to everybody involved in that, too.
Finally, I would be remiss if I did not end this post by thanking garlic just for existing and being tasty and enhancing the tastiness of many other foods. Yay garlic!
