Peeling a whole head of garlic in just seconds! Really! I can’t believe it’s been over four years since I first shared this tip for peeling garlic! I thought now would be a great time for us to revisit this trick because garlic planting season is right around the corner! We planted a lot of garlic last year and I’ve definitely been using a lot more garlic lately thanks to our bountiful harvest and the fact that I now know that peeling garlic doesn’t have to be a long and frustrating experience.

This post has been so popular over the years and one of the neat things about that is that people have written to me to share some of their own garlic tips, so I thought I’d update this post with a few of those as well. Here’s the original post: OK, people, listen up. I need to know why this trick has been kept from me for so long and I need to know now!

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No more peeling garlic with a little knife and getting the skins all stuck under your finger nails and having it take you 4. Let me just tell you about this. You will be amazed.

My gramma sent me a link to this video from Martha Stewart cooking school the other day and I just had to try it for myself. I didn’t even have garlic on hand because I’ve pretty much given up on having the time and/or energy to cook a real (non- spaghetti or chili- based) meal and then fight my family into eating it lately, so I went to the store and bought a bunch of garlic just to experiment with.

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Here’s the video: Here’s how my experiment went: Place a full head of garlic into a bowl. Place another same- sized bowl over top. Now, hold on to the two sides of the bowl/egg/spaceship that you’ve created and shake the dickens out of it. In Martha’s video she shakes it for about 1. I personally don’t have that kind of brute force available to me, so it took me a little longer. It was about 3 sets of 1.

I’ve been working out so I’ve definitely gotten better at this! It also helps to put your garlic down on the counter and give it a good whack with the heel of your hand before shaking to get things started. Here’s what happened! Really! It all just kind of fell apart and the skins fell off. Truthfully, there were a few cloves with the skin still on, but the skin was loosened enough that it just popped right off without much effort or added time on the clock.*update* A few really smart people have come up with a method for this that is just so much smarter, I have to admit. The basic concept is still the same, but instead of the two bowls, you just use a mason jar! Much easier to hold on to!

Just make sure your jar is large enough to allow the garlic to move around quite freely so it really gets shaken up! Some people have also recommended a pressure cooker, which I think would be great for doing multiple heads of garlic, but may also be a little exhausting. Another alternative to the garlic shaking is to put your garlic in the microwave for about 2. I really think that cooking with the fresh garlic is a little bit better than having it half- cooked by the microwave, but the microwave trick definitely works in a pinch! Ta- da! Now, who’s got a recipe for me that uses about a million perfectly peeled cloves of garlic?*update* Thanks so much to everyone who’s shared their recipes with me! Keep them coming!

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