/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>18583636
I grew 300 bulbs of garlic and harvested earlier this year, so I've only been using the most amazing, pungent, and flavorful garlic for the past 6ish months. Feels good beyond imagination.

>>18583636
grow your own garlic if you don't like it, chud.

I'm poor and live apartment. cant grow garlic

>>18583673
I would sell you some, but I don't think it's legal to sell things through the fourth channel. You're also poor.

>>18583673
Get a pot dumbass

>>18583712
Just read it takes 6 months for garlic to grow. I need garlic now. Not in 6 months you faggots asshole

>>18583636
>WTF is wrong with this seasons garlic??????
Bad sacrifice this harvest. The gifts were rejected.

>>18583636
If the spring is too hot it causes the garlic to be ready too quickly, which means small bulbs that may be singlets instead of multi-clove bulbs. If the garlic is shit that means they're using last years harvest that has been stored and frozen for a long ass time.

there's randomly garlic at the farmers market
it is oddly much harder to peel (skin is ultra papery and thin) but the texture and flavor are otherwise better
its not cheap, 2 dollars a bulb, but I like it
fo to a farmers market anon, they have them in md, silver spring market is year round and I bet someone has garlic

>tfw 150 bulbs planted in backyard
i just hope i didn't plant them too 'early' because it still hasn't frosted in my area on NOVEMBER FUCKING FIFTEENTH

I have definitely noticed more fucked up discolored/rotten garlic bulbs recently.

>>18583788
That makes sense to me that's probably exactly whats happening. It should be illegal to sell shitty fucked up garlic. How are these crooks getting away with it??
>>18583824
Thanks for the tip! I hadn't thought to check farmers markets. There's one in Gaithersburg I been to a few times but don't remember if they sold garlic. I'll have to check. I will definite pay 2 even 4 dollars a bulb if its quality garlic. I've been stealing way more shit from my local grocery store to makeup for the garlic they ripped me off on

>>18583929
It's super seasonal, just gotta find stands selling veggies, look, and definitely don't be afraid to ask
also they have young ginger this time of year
hit up the farmers market and report back with your next garlic dish
buy a ton and make some garlic bread
do u make french bread?

>>18583636
drought. It fucked up all the onions too.

>>18583940
No I mainly use garlic for soups and spaghetti sauce but more importantly I need high quality garlic for my fermented garlic honey. Especially during this time of year its a really powerful medicine to fight against/prevent colds and stuff

>>18583944
Not so much the lack of water as it was the relentless heat this growing season. The good news is that though the harvest is a lot smaller, the quality of the onions and garlic has been pretty good. The crappy stuff in stores is probably old stock making up for the smaller harvest, as someone already said.

I've had some bad ones lately but the one I bought at the store today was great. the last one I bought you could tell was super old. sad!

>>18584654
Was it spicy?

Quit stinking up the board with these garlic threads.

There is spring garlic and autumn garlic. Autumn garlic is a lot shittier.

>>18585815
>>18585825
Cope. You're just working for big garlic trying to normalize your shitty product

>>18583636
It's a lot worse than usual but I've found some Spanish garlic that's still fairly normal here in Sweden. But yeah something is really off.

>>18583834
Yes almost every clove has little brown bumps on them, or just huge black craters. And it's not visible until you peel it so you always risk getting fucked at the store.

>>18584057
The medicinal properties of garlic is the allicin and you'll only get that if you crush your garlic and exposes the juices to air for 10-20 minutes before eating it raw.

>>18583636

It's not just garlic. Everything's looking like shit lately, and i've bought some thing in the past few weeks that turned out to be moldy once I got the package opened. It's been bad for a while, but it's getting worse. Our 1st world food situation can deteriorate to 3rd world pretty quick, especially if it's profitable.

>>18583661
ive been garlic independent for four years now.

>>18583636
Just put it back into the ground and grow your own.

>>18583661
>>18586169
>>18583665
I planted garlic this fall, next year I'll be popping boys.

>>18583636
degenerative crop disease called purply garlic clovitis.

>>18583636
Here in Norway I've been noticing quality problems with store-bought garlic for a while. There was one Spanish brand that was good for a while but that seems to have gotten pretty much flavorless in recent years.

Ironically the only good quality garlic I can find is that single clove type from China, but I'm not all that thrilled about having to cook with Chinese produce.

>>18583661
What varieties? I grew two hard necks this year. Siberian and Music. Music might be the most powerful garlic I ever had.

>>18585907
Yes sir! I crush my garlic cloves before loading in my jar of raw honey. There's also supposed to be medicinal properties in raw honey. Just make sure you use raw honey since its more acidic and have pH tester strips to make sure the concoction is below 4.6 so you don't get botulism. You can also add some apple cider vinegar if the pH starts to creep up. And don't forget to burp the jar daily to release c02 and do this until the bubbling stops which will be a few weeks

>>18583636
What's wrong with sprouting garlic?

>>18587021
Inchelium, french red, and italian red all softneck because it doesn't get cold enough here and I wanted my 'lic to keep really well.

>>18583636
I noticed this too. You look at the bulbs and the cloves already have sprouts pushing the papery skin up

>>18586460
>whole bulb is the clove
Honestly never seen this before

I haven't seen a single clove of garlic that wasn't purple like that since before covid. Shit sucks.

>>18583636
China
or as the grocery store try to keep the price low for this staple item, they buy the discounted stuff in bulk

>>18587319
Which one is the spiciest.

>>18583661
Do you use 300 bulbs of garlic per year? I use a lot of garlic, but I don't use that much.

>>18583661
I only grew 2 bulbs. It was an epxirement just planting a piece of garlic from store bought bulb. It worked though and it was pretty good.

>>18583661
>>18583665
>>18586276
I hope you guys don't have goysoil, you realize you'll just get goylic unless you have natural non-GMO 100% aryan soil right?

>>18588024
I can't say because I fudged the organization when planting. They're all really pungent, spicy, and have a complex flavor compared to any store bought garlic.

>>18588040
No, but I wish I did. Homegrown garlic tastes so amazing when you use a lot. Somedays I've had 8 raw cloves in a single meal. Oil,garlic,salt,lemon juice aioli works great on so many things. The gas was intense, but I felt fantastic.

I have raised beds and just folled up a full 4x16 one with garlic.

>>18588041
Very nice. Did you get full bulbs from them? Spring was really hot this year, so I got a lot of small and single clove bulbs. There were still a good amount of nice sized ones, but I would have been happier with more.

>>18587343
They're pretty good as garlic comes. But again, china.
So probably full of cancer

>>18588058
shut the fuck up retard

>>18588058
At this point I can't even tell who's trolling with /pol/ posting and who actually believes the stuff they're typing

Just get garlic powder
I did and it was both cheap and very convenient

>>18588427
>Just get garlic powder
good god

>>18583636

Vampires have slowly taken over the FDA and are over-regulating garlic production to the point it won’t be possible anymore,

let me tell you something man, it's been the same thing here in bulgaria too so it's not just an american thing. half the cloves are dust, the other half have sprouted. it must be seasonal like those other anons are saying

>>18588113
you must be literally a complete fucking retard if you can't tell whether or not that was a joke

>>18588067
You should be more organized next time. That way you can make a science project out of it and see which garlic grows the best in your gardens conditions.... AND so you can tell me which is the spiciest/best
>>18588896
Joke or not, she's right though

>>18588725
Did you know the British royal family doesn't eat garlic? Sounds kinda suspicious if you ask me

>>18589639
that garlic is to spicy for them being British and all

>>18589643
No I'm alluding to the fact that they're obviously deepstate vampires

>>18589664
well wouldn't be surprised. old family, old money, pasty skin, and lives in a castle. you only need a string of dead bodies and you have a Dracula movie. kek

>>18589639
Because they don't want to smell like food at meetings. They also don't eat rare meat since it's too risky to get sick even for an hour.

>>18588896
>she
Is this a meme? Or are you implying that there are actual women on /ck/?

>>18589683
>you only need a string of dead bodies
I'm sure they've got that too
>>18589697
>they dont want to smell like food at meetings
That's exactly what they want you to think

>>18589716
Majority of the anons on this board are women, why do you think everyone here act like such bitchy cunts?

>>18590164
It makes me smile knowing theres a chance I may be calling women retards on here.

I wonder if women are the anons that constantly freak out if you have 1 speck of dirt on your hands or nails, or if it's just bitch boys.

>>18589639
hemophilia: the royal disease

>>18589643
What? Garlic is literally one of the most common things in the UK.

>>18590261
cope britisher

Garlic

>>18588104
You’re full of dumb.

>>18593006
China uses sewage to water their garlic and also bleaches them to make them look white

>>18590164
>women
>on 4chan
what are you smoking?

>>18583636
its a psa about vampires dickhead check out /x/ "hi i'm 82 years old

my garlics fine lmao

>>18583636
Same thing in germany

>>18595170
You just don't know amazing garlic from subpar garlic. You probably use the jarred preminced garlic

>>18583738
Should have thought ahead

>>18594309
T. Retard
Also, don’t look up US pork production, lol.

>>18597880
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCz1WgYRTZA

>>18598260
He’s full of shit except on surface chloramine/chlorine treatment.
And you’re retarded for believing that shit.
What does the USDA say? And you’re never heard of the Christopher Farms law suit?

>>18583636
standards have been getting lower and lower across the board for almost everything because the average person has been getting worse and less aware of anything
people are proud of being able to cook and want to show off that they can but they can't and they are tasteless - to them any garlic is good enough garlic
and the big garlic companies want to appeal to the modal demographic which is shitty retarded people
if you want good ingredients you have to look for them and pay more because the large retailers simply cannot be trusted to have a real product anymore

>>18598351
Commodities. Industrialization.
That’s all you need to day.

>>18598332
>>18597880
seething chang immediately assumes anybody disgusted by chink land is an amerifat as per usual. you 'people' are robots.

>>18598431
You’re a fucking moron.

>>18598433
.50 yuan has been deposited into your account. maybe you can buy some bleached garlic with it ;)

>>18598437
Like I said, you’re a fucking moron.

>>18583636
>eating toxic vegetable
Next you tell me you eat antibiotics with your meal

>zhang reduced to babbling insults solely because it's pointed out he eats bleached garlic
LOL
chinese are the single most coping ethnicity on the internet, imagine being a literal NPC race

>>18598449
You can’t even fucking read you dumb turd.

post hands and view outside your window if you want people to stop calling you zhang ;) you won't
imagine living under a regime that shoots you unless you eat ze bleached garlic LOL

>>18598462
You’re so fucking stupid you completely missed how fucking stupid you are. Chinese garlic in China aren’t bleached. They’re bleached for export to the US to halt sprouting during sea freight.

>i-it's not bleached! I swear!
>no pics
thought so Zhang, enjoy your B L E A C H E D garlic. tiananmen square incident 1989

>>18598485
Like I said, a fucking moron.

you will never see your country become a superpower
you will always be a impoverished peasant slaving away for the party elite
you will always eat bleached garlic while whining about amerifats on the internet (while stealing all of their cultural practices)
you will die womanless due to your garbage gender ratio

>>18583636
Damn OP, I thought it was just me. I'm also noticing that the yellow and white onions in my area are tiny all the sudden for whatever reason. I mean they're like half the size they should be. They look like shallots. Red onions seem normal though. Anyone else?

>>18599081
I grow my onions, so they have been delicious and superb.

>>18583636
i just buy a peeled bag from a chinese store and freeze them, then just add 50% more garlic for dishes that need it

>>18598260
damn everything from chinese girls to chinese garlic is getting bleached

>>18598446
I love that niggas 4head like you wouldn't believed

>>18599177
This is the way.

>>18583636
Pennsyltucky.
Same, little flavor added cooking with it

I'm Australian and I've noticed the garlic has been very white when I usually get purplish garlic and it's also a fucking pain to peel