Cheapest price since October 2015. A great time to stock up!
Often a good substitute for fresh garlic for cooking stir frys, curries etc. Also delicious mixed with butter and spread on toast.
Edit: Possibly end of line and difficult to find stock. Good luck! Thanks to Click_It.
Coles branded garlic equates to $6kg so saving is $2…
Coles brand has the highest % of garlic too :)
Or does garlics have the highest % of coals?
^ Terrible dad joke.
Reminds me of an incident at work recently. I told a terrible joke and realised immediately how terrible it was so I apologised for the bad dad joke, only then did everyone laugh!
Why is Chinese garlic always so white? (And only Chinese)
Use within how many days of opening? I'd rather keep the powdewed/granulated stuff as a desperate backup when out of fresh (or find it has gone bad).
I keep opened bottled garlic in the fridge for weeks/months.
I think they're bleached, the methyl bromide is to kill pathogens.
Pathogens, like those from using human excrament?
Chinese garlic cloves are treated so they cannot be grown unlike the Aussie ones
@tommyc:
Drop the Chinese garlic, especially when processed and put into a jar!
Support Aussie garlic!
Interesting article, especially:
I've been told by bureaucrats that if Australia puts up a stink about Chinese garlic then our next wheat or wool shipment will be made to sit out in the China Sea while they buggerise around trying to prove a point punishing us."
Chinese garlic is also meant to be irradiated before import to make sure it doesn't sprout, but I've seen white Chinese garlic sprout at my local Asian grocery. Whatever they're doing it's not effective.
There are over 1000 different cultivars of garlic around the world. I think you expect that the natural garlic colour is purple-ish, like the italian red garlic. Some manufacturers uses the whiter garlic because it is easier for their "vision-system" to identify contaminants in their batch. E.g. Plastic, dirt, insect which cannot be detected by a metal detector.
Importing food into Australia has to meet very strict requirements set by BICON. Methyl bromide use is required by BICON @ the rate of 40 g/m³ for 3 hours at 21 °C.
I was told by a very old farmer that the reason our garlic are now white is because people in the past never liked buying purple garlic and carrots, which explains why we now have white garlics and orange carrots.
Source: Have worked many years in the food industry.
Dioxin probably. Its keep your teeth whiter until they fall out.
The Food Company garlic is so much tastier. Its locally made. But alas more expensive (but hey you use less and a few $'s over 2-3mth isn't too bad).
I looked for that yesterday and didn't see a use within time frame but still didn't buy it
Are they personally grown by Captain Jack Sparrow?
They're Chinese, so probably grown by Captain Jian Shao.
Country of Origin:
Product of China
Most fresh garlic sold here are from China. Not only the jar one.
Like almost everything these days unfortunately. Wasn’t always the case.
oh really? xiaomi/DJI/huawei are all owned/made in china, good luck then.
hope one day Aussie can design/make them with the competitive price.
@coolbzk:
You're referring to electronics.
I'm specifically referring to food that we can grow in our own soil.
I won't buy it, only buy the Aussie garlic which has a purple hue.
Prolly Purple Haze more like it :)
Perhaps but there are plenty of Australian options, just not at this price. The one in the fresh food section in a plastic tub come to mind.
Alternatively Costco has a massive jar of American garlic. Not sure of the price.
There's a fair chunk of freah garlic from Mexico. But Aussie stuff can be found too.
Oddly enough, Chinese grocery stores in Australia are great places to get locally grown garlic.
I never buy Chinese Garlic. It just all white with small cloves that are awful. Like they grow this garlic in a lab. It gives food a horrible bitter flavor. Always buy Aussie if available or Spanish Imported.
Sadly all the "processed" garlic (crushed, powder, flakes, etc.) I've seen is product of China.
Yep, made/packed in Australia from imported ingredients.
Hate that funky taste and lacks the punch of the fresh stuff.
"Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screw-top jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don’t deserve to eat garlic." - Anthony Bourdain
Hate that funky taste and lacks the punch of the fresh stuff.
Couldn't agree more, it never tastes anywhere near as good as the fresh stuff and always has a weird taste.
Bourdain is the best!
Chop up a batch of fresh garlic, mix well with plenty of oil, put glass bottle and into fridge, last for months and the aroma is fantastic as they are from fresh garlic. Much better than these vinegar added stuff.
I peel the cloves and put in the freezer whole or just crush them and freeze them.
I find leaving them whole keeps the flavour a bit more though.
Alternatively, freeze whole bulbs unpeeled.
Please be really really careful doing this, as there are many cases of botulism from DIY garlic in oil.
Low acid, low oxygen is perfect for the bacteria, and I recall guidelines saying that even in the fridge, it should be either used in 2-4 days or frozen.
There's a reason it's stored in vinegar rather than oil ;)
Thanks for the advice but I have been doing that for years without any problem at all. I peeled the garlic, washed them and pad dry with paper towel before I chop them. I think this washed out the bacteria on the skin of the garlic.
Being lucky so far is no excuse to put yourself and others at risk:
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fy487
http://nchfp.uga.edu/publications/uc_davis/uc_davis_garlic.p…
Plus about a million other hits saying 'don't do this!'
I hope you'll at least have the courtesy to inform anyone who you are cooking for so they can make an informed decision ;)
botulism from DIY garlic in oil
Could you inject the garlic oil for DIY botox?
This garlic is 23% oil and water. Price per kilo should be considered in terms of actual garlic.
Is it actually that bad? Coles branded stuff is 90% garlic, which is the best on the shelf (I've sat there comparing lol)
Aldi is 96% garlic. Not sure how much I paid so can't compare price per kilo
We always use this brand , Usually lasts one year in the fridge ,They supply to all restaurants too
Great as a quick snack
and to kill off Vampires with your breath
Or anyone for that matter.
I was in until I read Product of China.
Yeah, it speaks volumes that the parents in china want infant formula from overseas. Any country that has had fake rice made from plastic has major food safety issues (not to mention sewage, poisonous additives to toothpaste, and so forth). I'll happily buy my gadgets from there, but for things that go into my mouth I'll happily pay extra for it come from somewhere else. For Australian consumers, that primarily that means no Chinese garlic, and no frozen seafood from China.
Fake rice.
Fake Eggs.
Fake toothpaste.
Melamine in baby formula and other 'milk products'
The list goes on and on.
It's pretty hard to find Australian garlics nowadays.
Is available at most Colesworth near onions/potatoes
Garlic is seasonal.
Fresh from Chinese sewage farms
As long as the faeces and urine is fresh.
I love CCCCCCC crushed garlic
I think you're missing a C.
I hope the chinese "flood" the market with avocados. I am tired of paying $4.00/piece from the local green grocer.
I can see it now…It would be called the Xiaomi WonderBollock and only grown in the finest chinese faecol matter
Unfortunately China is new to avocados. In fact they enjoy Australian avocados as much as we do. You can get pretty good deal from aldi below $2 per piece
When I bought Avocados in China-Xi'an a few years ago it was $40/kg imported from USA… The people who I spoke to over there desribed it as ice cream and didn't know how to eat it but raw.
GZ guys dont eat Chinese garlic its absolutely rubbish deprived any good stuff.
this stuff is YUM
I've tried a few stores, all said it's end of line and out of stock.
Newcastle NSW area. Good luck if you can find some
Found some in local Coles. Make in India with 70+% garlic plus vinegar and oil. Didn't buy it as not sure about the taste and 1kg is too much for me.
Crushed ginger also available at same price
Man, now they are growing Garlic in the World's Oceans.
I feel old. lol