How To Peel Garlic: Use This Swift Technique For Minimal Mess

Goodbye garlic-smelling hands.

You might have cooked with garlic for years, but you probably won’t know this ridiculously speedy technique to peel it.

Twitter user @VPestilenZ has shared a nifty trick that allows you to get cloves out – unpeeled – without having to dig your fingernails in to do so.

Rather than pulling each clove off, stick a knife into the top of one of them and pull it out. Easy – and minimal mess. 

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“As someone who makes a lot of Korean food, this is the best method for getting garlic peeled!” wrote Pestilen. 

The tweet has had more than 325,000 likes, and thousands of comments from people keen to try out the technique in the kitchen this evening.

The people have spoken. Life-changing.