• makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    Every time. I believe the 2 cloves thing is really an approximate in the industry.

    I had a recipe last week that specifies 11 small cloves. That raised my eyebrow.

    So, to keep to form, I put in 12.

    No recipe is going to tell me how much garlic I should use!

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    5 months ago

    40 clove chicken is a thing

    Also there’s no such thing as too much COOKED garlic, I used to say “there’s no such thing as too much garlic” too until I made Hummus the first time. I put in significantly more than called for as per usual. I regretted it. I quite like garlic so I could power through it but it wasn’t pleasant.

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      5 months ago

      I feel you, I have ruined a yoghurt dip a couple of weeks ago with too much garlic. Even my husband felt it was overdone and he comes from a family where they just eat raw garlic like a cucumber. But that’s the point, if you want to eat pure garlic you can go eat pure garlic. But you only want a side kick garlic in certain dishes.

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    5 months ago

    My sister in law read a salsa recipe wrong once and put 2 heads of garlic instead of the directed 2 cloves. Maybe some of you garlicky people would have liked it but I did not 🧛

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    5 months ago

    If you have a microplane, try grating the garlic. You can get a much bigger punch out of each clove.

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    5 months ago

    Step 1. Remove two (2) cloves from tray.

    Step 2. Store remaining cloves for later use.

    Step 3. Use the two (2) cloves as recipe directs.

    Step 4. Ignore step 2 (two) and grind remaining 600 (lots of) cloves into paste for use on teeth or anus.

    Step 5. A winner is you!