Zyliss Jumbo Garlic Press with Cleaner
by Zyliss
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Zyliss Jumbo Garlic Press with Cleaner
Customer Review: Hey! It actually presses garlic!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I gave up on garlic presses after dealing with so many that just send smashed bits of garlic pieces up behind the plunger. It was easier just to chop the stuff with salt (messier, stickier, and stinkier, but easier). I was quite hesitant to buy this after my past attempts at garlic pressing but the review in Cooks Illustrated convinced me to give it a try. What can I say, I'll never use a knife on garlic again!
Pros:
It's big enough to easily squeeze two or three cloves at once.
The vast majority of garlic is squeezed through the holes into garlic puree (only a little slips up behind the plunger).
The cleaner stores cleverly in the handle (so I haven't managed to lose it yet which is quite a feat).
The cleaner stores cleverly in the handle AND its quite a useful little cleaner too!
Rinses clean very easily after use and the time I kind of set it to the side and forgot and let the garlic in it dehydrate in to hard little cementy blobs, it came clean just fine in the dishwasher.
Cons:
I have little hands (I never really knew this until I tried to squish three cloves of garlic). I couldn't get one hand around the handles to do the squeezing.
It can be hard to press (of course, as mentioned before, I have little hands - so maybe a big strong manly type man, or a women with a grip could do fine).
The handles become slippery if they get at all wet making it even harder to press. As long as I keep it to two cloves (hard to do because it would EASILY hold three or four and I'm lazy and impatient), I don't have any trouble smushing the garlic into submission.
Customer Review: Difficult to use
Summary: 3 Stars
I bought this press hoping it would be easier to use than our current one, but sadly it is much more difficult. If there is more than one clove of garlic in it, I can't compress it at all - my husband has to do it. While I like the included cleaner, the press is useless to me unless my husband is home and I am not exactly lacking in arm strength. I think if the press were made of a heavy metal instead of a cheap plastic it would probably be better. I am sticking with my Oxo Steel.Customer Review: Hands down the best
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a fantastic garlic press, so easy to use and even easier to clean, I just can't say enough about it. I threw out the old one and stoppped with that silly mincing already and switched to a nice finely pressed garlic from Zyliss. Requires little pressure and my fav. feature is definitely the easy cleanup. Don't shop around, buy this press today.Customer Review: Outstanding product
Summary: 5 Stars
I've owned about half a dozen garlic presses over the years, the last of which was an Oxo Good Grips (with grips that slip, fill up with water in the dishwasher and then drip that dishwater all over whatever you're cooking when you try to use it) and this Zyliss press is hands down the best of the lot and absolutely worth the premium you will have to pay for it over the sorts of presses you can buy in the grocery or discount stores. I find it easy to use, even with several large cloves of unpeeled garlic in it. The woman complaining about it being difficult to use probably has arthritic hands and I would think that the overwhelming majority of people age 10 and up should have no problems with using this press. Since I bought this press several months ago, the one and only time I touched the jar of store-bought minced garlic that has been sitting in my fridge for the past year was to throw it out in the garbage. This is easy to clean too, especially with the handy plastic cleaning tool. If you like to cook, buy this press. You won't be disappointed.Customer Review: Great Product
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this garlic press because it was recommended on America's Test Kitchen and they were right. It presses the most garlic out of any press I've ever owned. Love it!!!