Garlic makes any food better and is good for the body. The ingredients in garlic lower blood pressure. This is due to the substances alliin and selenium, which expand blood vessels and normalize blood pressure.
Many dishes require garlic. After cooking, your hands often smell strongly of garlic. One trick is to peel the garlic in just a few seconds. This means your hands no longer smell like garlic.
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Peel garlic in the garlic press
Peel garlic quickly and easily with a garlic press. These are available, for example Amazon.
- Place the whole clove in the garlic press.
- Press as usual. The shell gets stuck in the press.
This saves you time and your fingers don’t smell like garlic. If you don’t have a garlic press, there is still a way to peel garlic more easily. You can see how the route works in the video above.
The trick also works with potatoes
Peeling hot, freshly cooked potatoes doesn’t make your fingers smelly, but it’s still tedious. How good that you can also use the garlic tip mentioned above with potatoes.
To make mashed potatoes or mash, put the boiled potato including the peel into the potato press. As with garlic, the peel remains in the press.
The original for this post Without stinky fingers: How to peel garlic in seconds comes from CHIP.
