h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Real chefs don't need garlic-presses, as they only serve to brutalize the poor cloves.
Real chefs use the side of their heavy chefs knife to crush the clove into a neat pulp, ready for usage with delicious dishes. This maintains more of the flavour, the juices and the etherial oils of the garlic.

Mind you, I do have a presser, the cloves always slip when I try to squash them with a knife and I'm afraid I might cut myself some day, bleeding into the dish, rendering it very unapetising...

Well I've got a press (so I obviously can't claim to be a real chef) but I never use it because I can't be bothered unblocking all the little holes afterwards. By the way lots of real chefs seem to be getting a bad press (as in newspapers, sorry for the unintended pun) just now with all their temper tantrums and prima donna behaviour, so it's possibly a good thing not be one of them

They do? In what part of the world?

Anyway, I use one of those little thingys for my garlic and I do consider myself somewhat of a chef. Not a pro, naturally, as I don't make money doing it. But I do make food, shouldn't that be good enough?

What is it about garlic presses that makes you end up
with a bit flat piece of garlic left in the garlic press when you're
finished?
What use on earth is that?
What cooking can you do with that?
Hmmmm....????

Well, I've never seen the need for a garlic press. I prefer to bash and chop, myself. It never slips if you put the garlic under the widest part of the blade, and give it a good hefty whack.

Plus, a garlic press is just one more thing to clean.

You can make tiny garlic-flavoured pancakes.
Or use it along with the rest of the garlic-pulp.

Merry Christmas.

I have given up on real cookery and shall get myself a tube of garlic. No dangerous blades and no fiddly washing up. The only problem is there's no flavour either.

Garlic powder isn't a bad substitute.

That depends...