Aucbvax.6740 net.cooks utzoo!decvax!harpo!npois!ucbvax!upstill Tue Apr 13 23:01:36 1982 Easy cleaning, multi-use garlic press Why do you need a garlic press in the first place? Instead, buy a nice hefty Chinese cleaver (I swear by my stainless steel Joyce Chen model). A light smack of cleaver on clove makes peeling trivial, and a nice firm blow followed by a few cuts across the grain provides garlic fully qualified as "finely chopped". The fewer the gadgets the better, I say. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.