McClusky and Garlic Press

garlic press: So I feel like a bonehead when three garlic farmers tell me that the handheld press is the best way to extract flavour from the vegetable, according to The Star. McClusky has brought his friends Lisa and Bart Brusse, who grow garlic on their farm near Hillsburgh, Ont., about 8,000 bulbs a year and First, an admission. I thought garlic presses were dumb. You know those things that look like a nutcracker but with a grate through which you push garlic? We had one when I was a kid and the tiny grate was difficult to clean, always gunked with the detritus of past mashings. In cooking school they taught us to finely mince it with a sharp knife, telling us that garlic presses were for home cooks, a pejorative around professional cooks like the high school dropouts and ex-cons in my class. If you take a clove, you dont smell any garlic, says Peter McClusky, garlic farmer, founder of the Toronto Garlic Festival Sept. 21 and author of the upcoming book Ontario Garlic: The Story from Farm to Festival . When you crush it, because you re combining these different cells, you re creating a compound called allicin and thats the garlic smell. The best way to do that is to put that in a garlic press. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.