[Image description: a perfectly round peeled bulb of garlic on a cutting board, with unpeeled normal cloves behind it.]
When the recipe calls for one clove of garlic.
this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2024
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That's not done yet. Garlic looks like this when it hasn't 'split' into the clove parts yet. This will be bland and only have a mild flavor.
That makes sense, he was really undersized compared to the rest.
He? uwu
Why are you getting your uwu all over the garlic?
Why are you not getting your uwu all over the garlic?
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Reinventing the onion let's go
ate the onion
On taking a closer look, I agree that this, indeed, is probably an onion.
Chove
bih that's a onion
Here is another mildy interesting fact, in Swedish we group onions and garlic together by using the word "lök" with a color and different spacing to differentiate them:
"lök" - onion
"gul lök" - onion or yellow onion
"rödlök" - red onion
"vitlök" - garlic
We never talk about "vit lök", it doesn't really exist as a concept in Swedish, but we have more types of "lök"...
"gräslök" directly translates to "grass onion", but the proper translation is "chives"
"prujolök" is the Swedish name for "leek"
Garlic, onions, chives, and leeks (plus shallots, spring onions / scallions, and ramsons) are actually very closely related, being part of the same allium genus. ~~That's the same level of closeness as dogs to wolves, for example~~ my example is bad, see AlotOfReading below
Dogs and wolves are the same species (Canis Lupus), not just members of the same genus. Genus Allium is much bigger than genus Canis (over 800 species) and its members are much less closely related to each other. The common food species are at least evolutionary cousins though, unlike other parts of the category. The onions and chives all share subgenus Cepa, while garlic and leeks are off in subgenus Allium.
Exactly the same in Finnish also. I wonder if these words came from Swedish into Finnish, even though our languages share different ancestors. I imagine all these onions came a lot after the base Swedish / Finnish was already established.
We never talk about "vit lök", it doesn't really exist as a concept in Swedish,
Do you mean to say there isn't garlic in Sweden??
They mean there is no white onion.
As I said, garlic is called "vitlök", not "vit lök"
"Vit lök" means "white onion", and does not exist
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That would have been great when my ex made lasagna and he didn't know the difference between a clove and a bulb.
There's a particular variety of Chinese garlic that grows as a singular bulb. It originates in the Yunnan province, I think. I remember my mother growing it back when I was a child. It's really nice!
All garlic looks like this if its been harvested too early.
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