OXO Good Grips Silicone Garlic Peeler with Stay-Clean Storage Case,Clear,1EA

Convenient and super easy to use!

Very simple to use and clean. Rolled a couple of cloves in the tube and the skins came off easily.

used it yesterday and it worked great

The garlic peeler works about half the time. Some types of garlic peel easily.

I am a gadget junkie and I find this Oxo Good Grips Garlic Peeler to be one of the few gadgets I have tried lately that delivers success from what started as a cool idea. I use LOTS of garlic and though I do like dried garlic powder in some applications, there is no substitute for fresh. Sometimes, it was just too much for my lazy soul to deal with the sticky mess of cleaning and dicing garlic cloves and on those days I had to settle for dried. BUT, there are lots of new gadgets to squander my money on and I hit on this one.The other night was the innagural run of the peeler and I was making pasta with garlic sauteed in olive oil. You break the cloves from the bulb, insert 4-5 into the silicone manicotti shaped tool and roll on the counter top with your palms for several seconds. Dump the contents into a bowl to seperate the whole peeled cloves and avoid having the paper fly all over the kitchen. In less than 5 minutes, I had 1 WHOLE BULB of garlic cleaned and ready to run through the new garlic hand press that I ordered in conjunction with the peeler. The new press is the heavy duty variety that is capable of crushing the cloves unpeeled but with this handy device, peeling them first actually saved time and the mess of cleaning the residual paper peels from the press and that was probably 1/4 the time it would have taken to process the garlic using the old smash with a knife blade then chop method. Clean up was relatively easy by using my fingers and a small amount of dish soap to rub the peels of the inside in a jiffy. I am very happy with how this product functions.I also recommend this garlic press Trudeau Garlic Press as an excellent mix of price/function.************Update 6/4/10*********************************Last trip to the grocery I found some beautiful garlic with huge cloves (not quite elephant garlic size) and bought 6 bulbs. When I tried to peel these very large flattened cloves (1 clove was a snug fit in the tool), the peeler did not work as well as when peeling "normal" sized cloves. I experimented with it a bit using 1 and 2 cloves and found that it worked much better after cutting the cloves in half lengthwise BEFORE peeling. This also allows the above mentioned press to work better. No kidding, a single clove was a forced fit into the press before cutting and overflowed the press cavity even AFTER cutting the cloves. Im my opinion, this is not a serious negative since this is the first time I have found garlic this size available. I mention it for info purposes only.

I have been using these for years, and this one by far is the best one I have ever used, for one thing it is thicker which I like, it is cut straight on both ends which is even better and has a case for it making it ideal for storage. I am really confused about some of the reviews I have read about not working when wet, and collecting lint when trying to dry it, well no, it should be completely dry when using so you should not wash it until you are done using it, you should wash it by hand because putting it into the dishwasher will normally leave it a bit wet anyhow, or discolor it, but since it is cut straight on both ends, all you have to do is stand it up and it dries out completely, there is no need to run any type of cloth through it to dry it, so why do that? Just allow it to dry naturally and it will.

Works great!!!!!

I purchased this for a chef who was very excited to try it. They do use it occasionally but it’s sort of a tedious process that transparently, isn’t saving you much effort from peeling another way. Because the cloves are oddly shaped they don’t roll that well in the tube. Once they do peel, there’s not much you can do to clean it except run water through (IDK if it’s dishwasher safe). And the peel can get somewhat stuck to the clove as you pull everything out.This may be a product that’s up to personal preference but I wasn’t impressed. If you hate touching garlic maybe it’s for you.