Talk:Garlic press

Pressing with the peel on
Can all presses do this? I thought it was only a feature of certain makes; we have one from Ikea whose advertising proudly called attention to this ability. (My husband insists on using it, and believe me, it is not easy to clean no matter what the sellers want you to think.) Perodicticus 09:19, 9 February 2006 (UTC)


 * They can all do it, there's no special design to allow it. It does, I believe, put more strain on everything, so a sturdier press is less likely to break or deform. I've seen advice to just cut the cloves in half with the peel on and put them in the press cut-side-down, as well, which probably makes the job easier for the press. &mdash;Bunchofgrapes (talk) 16:00, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
 * And not to mention the people doing the pressing! 71.199.123.24 21:42, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Crushing with knife
I've removed the line
 * ...some chefs say garlic crushed in a press has an inferior flavor compared to other forms of garlic, particularly garlic crushed with the side of a knife or some other flat, heavy object. For instance, chef Anthony Bourdain...

If you're going to use Boudrain as a source, his actual line, snipped from a Google Books search, is Smash it, with the flat side of your knife blade if you like, but don't put it through a press. I don't know what that junk is... &mdash; Sam 17:27, 30 October 2007 (UTC)


 * Admittedly it's clumsy, but it wasn't necessarily disagreeing with what Bourdain said. Consider the "particularly garlic crushed with the side of a knife" to be one of the "other forms of garlic" i.e. one of the forms to which press-crushed garlic is inferior. —Preceding unsigned comment added by LaFoiblesse (talk • contribs) 19:54, 25 June 2008 (UTC)


 * It doesn't matter whether it "necessarily disagreed" with Bourdain, he didn't say it -- the word "particularly" is misrepresentative. -- 98.108.200.52 (talk) 07:21, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

broken link
First source is a broken link. Maybe the page can be tracked down again? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.94.128.90 (talk) 03:07, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

"Unitasker" - reporting or innovation?
The second-last sentence of the article reads:
 * 'Alton Brown has expressed suspicion towards them on account of being "unitaskers" for the most part.'

Although I applaud the inventiveness of the term "unitasker", and have no trouble guessing its meaning to be "a tool only good for one task", with derogatory intent, I can find no definition of the term online (at least using Google). Is this sentence a paraphrase of a quote from Brown, and who invented the word? If it were Brown, let's by all means quote him directly. If it were not, should an encyclopaedic article invent and use new words without explanation? Why not, instead, write the following?:
 * 'Alton Brown has expressed suspicion towards them on account of their being mostly good for one task only.'

By the way, the phrase really should be "on account of their being ...", since otherwise the sentence seems to read as though Brown considers himself as being one (or more?!) '"unitaskers" for the most part'!

yoyo (talk) 08:15, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Who is Barbera Hanna and why should we believe this person invented the garlic press?
This article does not substantiate the claim that somebody named Barbera (weird spelling of Barbara) Hanna invented the press. If you take the time to look at the sources, this person is not mentioned. Also, as far as I can tell, nobody is quite sure (or cares enough to document it) when the garlic press was invented. designerx (talk) 20:43, 19 April 2010 (UTC)