Comments on: lafb stocking stuffer: garlic card

By: Dronir

Dronir — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 05:32:57 +0000

I bought one of these today. I can’t say I really like it.

First of all, it takes ages to rub down one clove of garlic on this. You will also end up rubbing your fingers in the mashed garlic so they’ll smell like garlic for days. The rubbing motion is also tiring for the arm. Finally, the card is too small, so you’ll end up pushing the puree off the card onto the table or other surface, unless you pause to scrape it off.

The only pros of the GC is that the puree it makes is very fine and that it’s easy to clean. But I have a stainless steel garlic crusher, which simply does the job quicker, cleaner and with less effort, the only con being it’s annoying to clean. But I think I can live with that.

By: MaxMillion

MaxMillion — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 02:41:03 +0000

I already have a porcelain grater that I use for ginger. I never thought to use it for garlic as I am sure my fingertips would get a bit grazed. Likewise with a microplane.
::thinks:: must get one of those babies…

Great link to the chindogu site, Dylan!

Actually, when I’m getting my back scratched, I usually use an imaginary map of Australia.
E.g.
“Kakadu! Kakadu! Uluru! No — now Melbourne. SOUTH Melbourne!” etc

By: Jonah

Jonah — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 19:51:28 +0000

I can see it now, going to a restaurant and requesting raw garlic, “no thanks, I’ll prep it myself…”

By: Dylan

Dylan — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 19:36:19 +0000

probably not. a microplane is truly an essential kitchen item. i love it. i’d buy a garlic card for the hell of it and do show-and-tell with my friends and coworkers though.

By: VeggieGal

VeggieGal — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 19:34:25 +0000

I saw this gadget too! Has anyone tried it? Does it actually work better than a microplane for grating garlic?

By: Dylan

Dylan — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 03:47:43 +0000

i wonder if they have a version with a pants chart.

By: SoCalorie

SoCalorie — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 01:38:38 +0000

Bite your tounge. The back scratcher t-shirt is ba-rill-yent:

http://www.chindogu.com/chindogu/chin1.html

By: Dylan

Dylan — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 21:59:00 +0000

well i wouldn’t say this is useless. Compared to useless japanese inventions, known as chindogu, the garlic card can be stored in your pocket out of public sight.

http://www.chindogu.com/

By: SoCalorie

SoCalorie — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 20:48:27 +0000

Back at ya’ for your imaginary garlic-shredding bbq action sequence!

It’s the de riguer food dork pocket protector for X-Mas ‘05, soon to be dismissed as completely corny and useless… The big screen adaptation starring Wilmer â€œFezâ€? Valderrama is being story-boarded now.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 20:19:42 +0000

great, another thing that i don’t need in my kitchen, but want. i can see it already. i’m at at a bbq eating bland steaks. i suddenly whip it out of my wallet and hook everyone up with some garlic. nice posting, socal.