A clove of garlic

[SamSpade]

I've always wondered this when cooking with garlic -

Does a "clove" mean, a single sliver - or the bulb? When I open a bulb, the lobes are all difference sizes, and if I pick a small one, its total effect with be utterly inconsequential.

I tend to use regular size garlic bulbs - maybe two inches across or less - from experience, large bulbs tend to have less flavor.

 

[Ken King]

Clove - wedge shaped segment

 

[vraiblonde]

And the size you use depends on how garlicky you like it.

 

[SamSpade]

And the size you use depends on how garlicky you like it.

MOST of the time, if I am using garlic in a recipe - it's in the oil before I cook stuff like the meat or vegetables.
By the time I'm done with it - you can barely see any garlic.

I'm certain I over do it, but I have never ever had a complaint, and I have a family of complainers.

 

[Monello]

I have a family of complainers.

 

[PrchJrkr]

I used to cook quite a bit when my family was growing and used garlic fairly often. Last night while making spaghetti sauce, I added some that my fiancé had bought and realized how my cooking had changed so much after being widowed for so long. Garlic had become something in a shaker.

 

[SamSpade]

Ah you have no idea.

Actually one of my girls doesn't complain much about anything - just doesn't like dinner to be sweet - so not a fan of most Asian or Italian foods - and doesn't like raw tomatoes. Baby girl doesn't like cheese - or bread - or most seafood or meat. Boy pretty much likes just a couple things - and to him, "spicy" is - pepper. He doesn't like spicy. Wife usually only likes about half of what I cook, but it could be other things affecting her palate.

 

[SamSpade]

I used to cook quite a bit when my family was growing and used garlic fairly often. Last night while making spaghetti sauce, I added some that my fiancé had bought and realized how my cooking had changed so much after being widowed for so long. Garlic had become something in a shaker.

I've been the cook now for just about a year - wife gets far too fatigued. I have to learn to change what tastes good to ME.

 

[gemma_rae]

I'm lazy, this suits me fine. Add to taste.

 

[jrt_ms1995]

- and to him, "spicy" is - pepper. He doesn't like spicy.

I have a granddaughter like that. Though I don't think she's ever actually had anything spicy.

 

[SamSpade]

I have a granddaughter like that. Though I don't think she's ever actually had anything spicy.

He still has trouble with hot foods - and I mean, PHYSICALLY hot, like french fries.
He's never quite learned to eat very hot foods without burning himself. Give him a mug of hot cocoa and first thing he does is try to gulp it down like it was a glass of cold water.

My middle child thinks my long association with very spicy foods have permanently damaged my taste buds, that I don't really have as sensitive a palate as most people. That's probably true. I probably accepted too many dares in my youth.

 

[PrchJrkr]

He still has trouble with hot foods - and I mean, PHYSICALLY hot, like french fries.
He's never quite learned to eat very hot foods without burning himself. Give him a mug of hot cocoa and first thing he does is try to gulp it down like it was a glass of cold water.

My middle child thinks my long association with very spicy foods have permanently damaged my taste buds, that I don't really have as sensitive a palate as most people. That's probably true. I probably accepted too many dares in my youth.

My tolerance for spicy is just the opposite. I used to eat jalapeño rings on everything and now I have to chop them and spread them thinly if I want some heat on whatever I'm eating.

 

[vraiblonde]

I'm lazy, this suits me fine. Add to taste.

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There was a time when I'd have minced that sht myself but those days are over.

 

[SamSpade]

I'm lazy, this suits me fine. Add to taste.

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My BIL uses that when he comes to cook - me, I think it tastes awful.
I think my garlic chopping is fast enough as it is - and when I really need it chopped, we have small food processors or the NutriBullet.

 

[Blister]

My wife's first attempt at fixing a fancy dinner was Sauteed Scallops. Fresh scallops were pricey for our budget at the time. As soon as I got out of the car in our apartment parking lot I smelled garlic. The recipe called for 2 cloves of garlic, she thought a clove was the whole head of garlic. Nobody ate scallops that night and we still laugh about it, 43 years later. I returned the favor a few weeks later when I was going to show her how to cook a fancy Cornish Game Hen dinner. All was going well until the wax paper wrapped giblets that I forgot to remove from the bird caught fire. Nobody ate Cornish Game Hen that night either.

 

[RoseRed]

My wife's first attempt at fixing a fancy dinner was Sauteed Scallops. Fresh scallops were pricey for our budget at the time. As soon as I got out of the car in our apartment parking lot I smelled garlic. The recipe called for 2 cloves of garlic, she thought a clove was the whole head of garlic. Nobody ate scallops that night and we still laugh about it, 43 years later. I returned the favor a few weeks later when I was going to show her how to cook a fancy Cornish Game Hen dinner. All was going well until the wax paper wrapped giblets that I forgot to remove from the bird caught fire. Nobody ate Cornish Game Hen that night either.

Then you go to Asahi!

 

[vraiblonde]

My wife's first attempt at fixing a fancy dinner was Sauteed Scallops. Fresh scallops were pricey for our budget at the time. As soon as I got out of the car in our apartment parking lot I smelled garlic. The recipe called for 2 cloves of garlic, she thought a clove was the whole head of garlic.

See, I'd have eaten that. I don't think there's ever been anything that had too much garlic for me. I used to like to roast whole garlic with olive oil then squeeze the cloves out on chunks of Italian bread and eat it.

Cleanest blood in America, man!

 

[Sneakers]

I'm lazy, this suits me fine. Add to taste.

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A while back, I found (think it was Aldi...) packets of frozen garlic, one little cube was equal to a teaspoon. It was as flavorful as fresh and so much easier. Unfortunately, I've used it up and it's just not available anymore, so I opt for the minced stuff myself.

 

[RoseRed]

See, I'd have eaten that. I don't think there's ever been anything that had too much garlic for me. I used to like to roast whole garlic with olive oil then squeeze the cloves out on chunks of Italian bread and eat it.

Cleanest blood in America, man!

Sourdough!

 

[vraiblonde]

Sourdough!

I used to have a recipe for garlic roast chicken that called for like 40 cloves. It was ah-MA-zing