Can Prepared Garlic Compete With Fresh? | The Taste Test
Nothing tastes better than fresh garlic in your food, but sometimes it’s a hassle to prepare. Are there any fresh garlic substitutes that can still deliver delicious flavor? Today, Kelly Song and Lisa McManus taste seven different types of pre-prepared garlic to see which is the most convenient without leaving behind any of the fresh garlic flavor.
Garlic Substitutes:
Winner:
Our Essential Guide to Garlic:
00:00 Intro
01:29 Gourmet Garden Minced Garlic (Tube)
03:47 Goya Minced Garlic (Jar)
06:31 Doro Gardens Crushed Garlic (Frozen)
09:42 Amore Garlic Paste (Tube)
11:52 Pastine Minced Garlic (Jar)
14:01 Dialo Minced Roasted Garlic (Jar)
16:34 Spice World Fresh Peeled Organic Garlic (Bag)
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Been there and done that, I prefer fresh garlic. Everyone is different so do what’s best for you.
my personal go-to for garlic is actually to bloom garlic powder (1:1 powder to water) and let it sit for 5-10min. since dehyrated is concentrated, it comes out pretty fresh and is quite fragrant!
I use the bag of the whole peeled garlic and freeze the cloves on a sheet tray, when frozen I store them back in their original bag and put it in my freezer so that it will last. I can then take out what I need when I need it.
I love Lisa and her product reviews. However, this is too chatty. Please bring back Jack.
As someone who is allergic to garlic, products like these can be literal lifesavers. Though cooking with garlic isn’t easy for me either, it’s something I have to do for other family members sometimes. If I had someone else to prep garlic for me, it would be great, but I don’t. Therefore, I have to rely on refrigerated/frozen prepped garlic (Korean markets also tend to have more options for these products) as well as powdered/granulated. And, yes, I do have to take allergy medications and take other precautions before I cook with garlic, fresh/refrigerated/frozen/dried.
Nice to know the peeled garlic is satisfactory 😊
its obvious only whole garlic tastes like garlic and everything else is a huge compromise bc you're too lazy to crush a fresh clove if garlic. your food sucks thanks to that
The choices of test subjects could have been better.
I've tried most of these products over the years and don't like any of them. I almost never run out of fresh gatlic. It's cheap, it lasts long if you cook at home. The pre-peeled stuff is too expensive to waste money on and, really, peeling it yourself takes seconds so is the convenience worth the cost?
I keep frozen garlic, ginger, turmeric, basil, parsley and even pre sauteed onions. Some of my foodie friends look down on me for using them, but they taste great and make a great time and labor saver.
After buying my first GOOD garlic press, I've never understood the idea of "hassle to prepare" with fresh garlic.
I buy Spice World and mince it with some olive oil in a small processor. I some in a jar and refrigerate and freeze the rest.
Just remember that all of these options involve plastic packaging that takes 400-1000 years to decompose. Whole garlic has its own natural packaging, and it's really not that hard to peel! Just crush the clove with the back of your knife and pull the skin off.
I buy a pound of peeled garlic whole cloves and ferment it using salt & purified water. Easy to do, does not lose flavor, texture or color. Bonus: For me there is no lingering garlic breath, either.
There are lunatics online that go so far as to say this video is privileged or even ableist for not recommending pre-minced jarred garlic. I kid you not.
I don't even need to see the video, the answer is an unequivocal NO.
Heat a clove for 6-8 seconds in micro and peel slips right off, quick chop and done.
I love the Trader Joes Fresh peeled, which can be found in the refrigerated veggie section. The bag has cloves ofgarlic in smaller sealed pods. I open one pod and then fold it up and put it back in the zip top bag. They also freeze great.
Some grocery stores, usually the Asian grocery stories in my area will sell you bags of fresh peeled garlic.
YES! I've been telling everyone Dorot's frozen garlic and ginger is the best next-choice if you don't have fresh on hand. So glad to see the same conclusion here and even in the comments.
Ethan Chlebowski has a whole video why frozen garlic is almost identical to fresh garlic.
While I really do appreciate everything that ATK and the entire team does, and certainly do respect their opinions, and base a good deal of how I cook, and what I buy, upon what that which these fine stewards of culinary excellence have to say, I must say, at the same time, that good ol' fresh heads of garlic, kept at room temperature, are the way to go, stinky fingers be darned. But this video was just as entertaining, and informative, as all the rest. So there.
For jarred, you chose minced garlic both times. It's unfortunate that you didn't try its jarred shelf mate, chapped garlic. IMO the larger pieces maintaining more garlic flavor than the minced.
Do you both have to agree on the same thing?
Does Betteridge's law of headlines apply here?
About to watch the video, but I'm guessing it does.
Seems like a crumby commercial
Grating garlic and ginger is a big hurdle for me in the kitchen. I straight up will not want to cook if I don’t have it on hand in the freezer already grated. I do it myself and lay it out flat in ziplock bags with perforations for easy use.
I think it would be better to not have the product reveal spoilers in the chapter titles of the video. I would like to skip around the video without ruining the reveal. 🙂
Adam regusea did a whole video about it he tested it and said its the closest to fresh
Dorot is my go to for 15 years especially in a salad or guacamole they also have a whole line of ingredients including ginger and cilantro and basil which is great when i need it in small amounts
I love Dorot products!! Target white-labeled Dorot garlic and ginger for their Good & Gather line, so they're even more available now!