Don't know where else to post this but I was getting ready to cook dinner (sloppy joes) and found this absolutely massive clove of garlic.
Can of coke for scale as I have larger than average hands.
Edit: It's elephant garlic. I am a stupid 🙃
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Always two, there are.
Heads? I think you mean two heads.
That's pretty good! I've used larger -- not counting elephant garlic -- but that one's up there among some of the greats!
Your mom has used larger.
That’s a big one. The largest I’ve seen is a bulb of garlic that was just one clove.
It never occurred to me that garlic could just not separate when growing like this.
A whole bulb being one solid piece would be interesting to see
Apparently there’s a variety that always does that called solo garlic.
Fasciated, perchance?
You sure you didn't accidentally pick up some elephant garlic?
Y'know I just went and looked at the package and that's exactly what happened lmao
Reminds me of the person who bought a carton of double yolk eggs without realizing and thought they just kept getting lucky 😅
They should have "sideshow tents" at farmers markets that are just full of double yolked eggs & elephant garlic.. maybe a few giant gourds or a potato that looks like Bill Burr.
That would actually make me more inclined to go to one.
Despite being a professional cook my whole life I don't know near as much about vegetables as I should. I know the typical ones obviously but the fact I didn't even know elephant garlic was a thing makes me feel kinda uninformed
Have you considered feeling recently informed? It’s a fun thing to know about! That’s for certain!
Yeah but it just makes me realize how much I don't know and as a lifelong cook I should know.
Problem is I can't learn by reading or videos I need to be shown first hand in person how to do things in order to actually retain the information.
It's a special kind of hell 😭
I had this one this evening
post it to https://lemmy.world/c/dull_mens_club
I was a comin' to say ... looks like a pretty standard sized clove of elephant garlic. Your edit has ruined my sanctimony and robbed me of my sense of superiority over you.
I like elephant garlic, but I don't like the price compared with plain ole run of the mill garlic. But this does give me an idea, maybe I should grow my own elephant garlic this year!
It's also a lot milder than regular garlic.
In awre at the size of this lad
Oh yea? Once I found a clove of garlic thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis big!
Eat it! Eat it! Eat it!
Unfortunately I already minced it for my dinner 😅
I mean, this seems like the optimal form of consumption, so... yea.
Smash don't mince
I do both! I smash it first then mince!
Smash and pull apart, gets real soft, is good.
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It's a little & fun unknown fact that garlic can eat garlic & become ultra-garlic
Not big enough. Add more cloves.
At least two more.
It's like a megalodon tooth.
Wait... That's big? Most of the garlic I use is around this size. Bargain market sells it.
Never heard of "aglione"?
Its an italian strain of garlic which is milder (so i think its similar to what you get can get in the USA)
Its very good and much better for some preparations