What the fuck is the point of chopping an entire head of garlic in half?

[Anonymous No.17336101]

Why not just use one smashed clove? Seems like a gigantic waste or a meme fad.

[Anonymous No.17336106]

You generally do that for roasted garlic or for stuffing poultry.

[Anonymous No.17336111]

>>17336106
Yes but you could just smash 2 cloves and shove it up the birb ass

[Anonymous No.17336113]

food tubers (tv or internet) are lazy and don't want to actually deal with the process of peeling garlic and they don't want to pay people to do prep work

it's not something real cooks ever do

[Anonymous No.17336121]

>>17336101
If it's going in a slow cooker or some kind of soup, maybe it makes it easier to fish it out. I can't use a garlic press because of weak womanly hands.

[Anonymous No.17336159]

>>17336121
>I can't use a garlic press because of weak womanly hands.
what the fuck?

[Anonymous No.17336203]

>>17336113
>it's not something real cooks ever do
wrong, real cooks do it because it's quicker and more convenient than peeling individual cloves and they don't pay for the ingredients they use, foodtubers probably do it because they don't need to be economical with garlic because they make money from making videos and also it makes it look like some PRO CHEF SECRET LIFE HACK WOW AMAZING!!! thing
also if you are making stock or braising something crushed peeled cloves are only going to make a tiny difference in flavor and be a lot harder to fish out the liquid
also garlic is cheap af lmao

[Anonymous No.17336211]

>>17336203
"real cooks" do it because they are too lazy to do any better, or they buy the pre-peeled ones

but they will also serve you carrots with the tops not chopped off either and call it artistic, no fag, you're just fuckin' lazy and that's not high cuisine

[Anonymous No.17336309]

>>17336113
How fucking stupid are you? Are your cooking skills so poor that you're LARPing as somebody who can cook? There is more than one way to cook garlic ya fucking moron.

[Anonymous No.17336405]

>>17336101
I like to do this and then use the cloves as a spread, like butter. Try that if you haven't OP, it's fuckin based

[Anonymous No.17336469]

>>17336101
I need at least 7 individual cloves for my slab of prime rib

[Anonymous No.17336505]

Slow cooking.

[Anonymous No.17336569]

>>17336159
it's kind of like this, the handles are made of cheap plastic and it's hard to get a grip. There's also no big movable metal thing that presses on the garlic between the handles, it's just a grate with a solid piece of metal attaches to the top part. Maybe a better one would work better but I suspect it's mostly my weakness that causes the problem. The garlic doesn't even go out of the holes, it just gets a little squished.

[Anonymous No.17336744]

>>17336211
>"real cooks" do it because they are too lazy to do any better, or they buy the pre-peeled ones
a head of garlic costs pennies and time is money and peeling garlic is a babby tier skill that you teach your children or the dishy to do

[Anonymous No.17336834]

>>17336101
Because you need a bunch of caramelized garlic? Put both halves down in oil of some other roast veggies. Way faster, infuses oil nicely and gets nice and soft

[Anonymous No.17336892]

>>17336101
throw that bitch in a slow cook stew, then pull it out and smoosh all the goodness out and mix back into the stew at the end.
>he taste will to you why my nug

[Anonymous No.17337252]

>>17336101
Not worth the effort if you're making a broth, soup or similar.

>>17336121
>weak womanly hands
How?
The only reason I don't use one is because I'm a tard and broke the last ones handle in two.

[Anonymous No.17337666]

>>17336121
It's this

It's meant to help fish it out, it is to enhance the flavor but it turns to mush and isn't very tasty on its own

They also do shit like chop a yellow onion in half and leave the skin on

They remove it and add a different set of vegetables that they may have browned and set aside to maintain the right firmness

It sounds like an intriguing idea

[Anonymous No.17337680]

>>17336892
I'll try that next time

[Anonymous No.17337966]

>>17336469
Looks good. I like it like that and I eat the garlic

[Anonymous No.17338292]

>sucking the roasted garlic clove of the remnants after squeezing everything you can out of it
The fucking best. Judge me if you will, I apologize to neither man nor God.

[Anonymous No.17338409]

>>17336569
Start squeezing that motherfucker like you mean it, I promise you have the strength to squish a damn garlic clove, your ancestors clawed for their lives for fucks sake. I don’t even own one of these garlic crushers but I want yours now. Give it to me.

[Anonymous No.17338648]

i dont fish my garlic out most of the time. I dont might eating the cooked garlic cloves.

[Anonymous No.17339386]

>>17336101
It is to trigger trypophobia
Pretty based

[Anonymous No.17339575]

>>17336121
>I can't use a garlic press because of weak womanly hands.
My mum has garlic grater for that, something like picrel.

[Anonymous No.17339602]

>>17336101
Just so you can fish it out easily. It's for stews essentially, where after cooking you want to remove the now boiled out vegetables and the herbs, but sieving doesn't work since the meat would be caught too. You try to cut your vegetables such that they are easy to retrieve (e.g. also leaving the root of the onion intact, tying your herbs together, etc.).

Then, to serve, you cook up some fresh vegetables that are as you want them, along with some garnish (e.g. lardons).

It's not something you do if you intend to eat the garlic, or e.g. have it distributed over something.

Flavour wise you get a slightly more mellow taste, where you want a sweet but not particularly intense garlic taste.

[Anonymous No.17339613]

>>17336211
Motherfucker you are one retarded ass bitch.

[Anonymous No.17339908]

>>17336121
wtf do some grip strength exercises I've been able to smash those little garlic cunts for as long as I can remember

[Anonymous No.17339913]

it looks cute

[Anonymous No.17339916]

>>17336101
too lazy to peel first and dice it.

[Anonymous No.17339937]

>>17336101
That seems nasty. What if there are any brown spots? You won't see them and cut them off so you'll be eating rotten moldy garlic.

[Anonymous No.17339962]

>>17336101
i have never seen anyone doing this in rl only on some tube videos

[Anonymous No.17339969]

>>17336469
comfy

[Anonymous No.17340031]

I just chop my garlic very fine instead of crushing it. Am I retarded for doing so?

[Anonymous No.17341584]

>>17336101
> 2022
> Not eating whole unpeeled cloves
> ngmi

[Anonymous No.17341664]

>>17336111
Two cloves does not a halved head make mate. Usually, in cases where you chop the head in half...you're gonna use both halves.

[Anonymous No.17341927]

>>17336101
>Seems like a gigantic waste
>costs .50 a head

[Anonymous No.17341967]

>>17336101
>cut in half
>sprinkle with salt and pepper
>drizzle with olive oil
>wrap in foil
>pop into the oven
>wait till melting soft
>squeeze out holding by the end
>mix with sour cream/mayo
Best garlic sauce you can do. Now fuck off.

[Anonymous No.17342129]

>>17341927
OP said waste. Not waste of money.