Anyone on the internet has most likely come across various hacks. Our good friends on social media have taught us that we’re eating corn wrong or peeling pineapple in inconvenient ways.
Many a user online has scoffed at our meagre attempts to do things and enlightened us with their skilled techniques.
The latest ‘hack’ comes in the form of peeling cloves of garlic.
While the average person might take to shedding the skin manually, clove by clove, Twitter user Valentina Pestilenez showed us that it’s possible to cut the work in half and use a knife.
Using the knife to puncture the garlic, Valentina scoops out the clove effortlessly, peeling the whole garlic head.
Twitter users were suitably impressed and even Chrissy Teigen got involved, sharing her astonishment at the trick.
But we’re sad to report that we have tried it in the office and it did not work for us. Valentina probably had a much better knife than we did or she might just be exceptionally skilled in the kitchen
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT https://t.co/tLEl5BtQr3
— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) June 17, 2019
The post has so far amassed 64,000 likes with people in their droves commenting that they’d be trying the trick in their homes.
Valentina wrote: ‘As someone who makes a lot of Korean food, this is the best method for getting garlic peeled!’
Others who also use lots of garlic in their food seemed optimistic about the trick but might need to hit Valentina up for tips.
While we used the sharpest knife we could find in the work kitchen (which was still pretty blunt), and then a pair of scissors, it seems Valentina has opted for a small, sharp knife and pulled out the clove in a digging motion.
Though it might work for you, in our attempts, the grip on the garlic was not tight enough and it just ended up becoming smush. A sharper knife might do the trick.
So those who want to save time by seamlessly peeling away may want to study Valentina’s video, do some digging around online, or just resign to the idea that you’ll have to peel it the good old fashioned way.
Unless someone comes up with another hack some time soon.
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