Which would you purchase? (light-hearted)

Paintbrush, as I always buy Lazy Garlic.

Neither of them are very expensive and you say you can afford both so go mad and buy both. As they say ‘You’re worth it

I'd choose the paintbrush as the garlic press roller looks like much harder work than it needs to be. A good paintbrush is well worth spending the money on.

I have one of the garlic roller presses. I succumbed to the hype. It doesn't work very well and I've gone back to chopping by hand. None of the gadgets seem to work well enough to make them worth the extra washing up.

put garlic on a chopping board, get the side of a large knife so there is no blade, just the large side hold it an inch or so above the garlic with the point on the chopping board then smash it down on the knife with your fist!

works every time, a few cuts across & job done, one less thing to buy & store!

You've cared for your paintbrush for 24 years what makes you think you will neglect it now? Go for it if you feel it will soon be reaching end of use. A paintbrush you like will make your task seem easier. As for garlic, how much garlic do you chop? There is chopped garlic in a jar alternative niw!

I agree with other people - get both for goodness sake! No contest as far as I would be concerned.

Just googled both.Yes buy both.

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I l-o-v-e garlic but for the past couple of decades I've preferred to buy the jars of Very Lazy Chopped Garlic. Just chopped garlic cloves marinating in white wine vinegar.

I always have an open one in the fridge and one in the cupboard. I wouldn't be without it. I couldn't be faffed with the peeling etc.

Order the paintbrush - and then go to Tesco and buy a jar of Easy Garlic (200g £1:90)!!
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I just don't get the dilemma. You can afford both and are hankering after both, but will only get one. Why? Is it a test of willpower?

valdavi

I have a dilemma: at the moment I'm hankering after 2 different things that I don't need, & never see in the shops so would have to get online. Both are small things & I could afford both, but I'm going to treat myself to one or the other,
First, a garlic roller-crusher (as mentioned on a thread on here recently). I got fed up with traditional garlic presses & years ago I saw one of these (John Lewis I think) but it seemed expensive & I didn't buy, I just chop garlic by hand it's quick & always fine enough (even if it does give me "garlic fingers)
Second, I have this amazing paintbrush, a Monarch advance, that made all the difference to the quality of my DIY painting when I got it about 24 years ago. I look after it, & it's still good, but I'm in the middle of a long slog of painting & I would like a second, just in case I forget to wash it thoroughly one day.
I'm going to go online & treat myself to one or the other - a paintbrush or a garlic crusher - which would you get?

The paintbrush, good paintbrushes make painting easier.

You can use the finger from a discarded rubber washing up glove to peel garlic, so I'd go for the special paintbrush.

Demonstrated second: www.youtube.com/shorts/8St-2EVhzUw

Grammaretto-😆😆

I'd have difficulty choosing as well, both seem very sensible purchases

Yep, definitely get both, on the grounds that they're not 'treats'; they are work tools!

Barbadosbelle- In asda world quisine aisle friday- 300g jars of lazy garlic and lazy ginger- both £1 a jar.I saw a few cheaper cooking ingredients there too, i will have a good browse next time.Also saw bottles of rosewater, which i'd previously bought at chemist counter,but was more expensive in chemist. I will buy next visit to double up for baking and to cleanse my face with(on cotton wool pad) as my mum& gran used to.

Ive only just discovered that using my nutmeg grater for garlic is the way forward!! Bought loads of those useless crusher things! So ....if you've already got one in your drawer use thst instead & buy the paintbrush 🤩😊

I found that garlic tool on amazon 2.99 (stainless steel) and a pack of 4 monarch brushes (maybe not 'advanced' type, which seems to be 'Elite'now?) but decent Monarch ones all the same) on amazon 12.99.I was tempted, and with amazon you can ussually return things if theyre not suitable/up to standard.Thank you Valdavi for this highlight.I was fed up buying new paintbrushes when bristles fell out.😁

I do have a nutmeg grater somewhere i think.So if garlic crusher doesnt work out ill return it & try that instead...If i find it😁😆

Nannan2

I do have a nutmeg grater somewhere i think.So if garlic crusher doesnt work out ill return it & try that instead...If i find it😁😆

Whole nutmegs used to come with a tiny grater in the jar.

I had a garlic roller but I found cleaning it a faff (the skin seemed to stick inside) so reverted to peeling garlic and then just smashing it under a broad-bladed knife.

Grammaretto

Just looked them both up. Go for the paintbrush.

yes.

Maybee70- i had one of those steel things to 'wash' hands with- you're right they do seem to work.I havent seen mine for ages though- hope son didnt chuck it when i was in hospital.(He had a kitchen cupboard clearout,without telling me)🤨🙀

I’m always losing mine!

I've got a garlic press. What's a roller and why is it better?