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Dont fry onions and garlic at the same time. Sweat the onions first and then add the garlic in the last 30 seconds before adding the other ingredients like broth or tomatoes. This will prevent your garlic from becoming bitter by overcooking.
This is good advice. Onions tend to take their time, meanwhile the garlic with them burns and loses flavour, just waiting until onion is ready to go out, but onion is still getting ready. Always getting ready. Onion needs to put its face on. Onion doesn’t care that garlic is aromatic and ready and has been patiently waiting for it to start even softening up. Onion is selfish. Garlic shouldn’t even bother getting pressed until onion is ready.
Five minutes!
You said that an hour ago!
You had me until you pressed the garlic. No wonder it has no flavor…
Does that affect the flavour?
I do it when I'm rushing, most of the time I like chunks.
Personally, I'd also reserve some garlic uncooked to add at the end. Cooked garlic looses it's bite. It's a very good flavor cooked, but I also really like the burn that fresh garlic has. This all depends on what you decide to cook though as some dishes you may not want that.
Also garlic powder for even more garlic flavours.
Granulated is actually better than powder, though it's less common. The chemical that causes the burn of garlic oxidizes pretty readily, and in powder form it's pretty much all gone. Granulated has less surface area, so it's slightly better, though still not as good as fresh.
Garlic will burn after about a minute if you cook them alone, but being mixed with onion distributes the heat, plus onions release liquid as they cook which also prevents burning. Depending on how much onion and how hot the pan is, it's not always going to burn the garlic. It's good advice and it's something to be aware of.
In this case the two are separated so the garlic will finish way faster than the onion unless they were about to mix it.
Garlic becomes bitter? I had no idea and I eat the stuff by the bulb.
(To be fair, I don't think oversteeped tea is bitter, either. And I think gin and tonic tastes sweet. So my sense of bitter might be a bit off.)
It's a genetic thing, kind of like how cilantro tastes like soap for some people.
I feel so bad for those people. Cilantro is my favorite spice.
Do you drink coffee? That can kinda fuck with your bitterometer.
Rarely but when I do I drink it black.
The only time garlic becomes “bitter” in my case is if I fry it to charcoal and it’s just little carbon crunchies. But those are more tasteless than bitter. I’ve never encountered bitter garlic now that I think about it.
sounds like the opposite of a supertaster, i'm pretty sure i'm a supertaster and to me tea has no flavour and if there's a single bitter molecule in a dish it's utterly inedible and i need to rinse my mouth.
Thanks, chef Jean Pierre
Also if you’re putting ginger in that mix, do the ginger first, then add onion, then garlic at the end.