FLUFF-What is your reaction to this quote?

I'm familiar with Anthony Bourdain so my reaction is similar to the reaction I've had to other quotes of his. He was a polarizing person who loved saying controversial things and ruffling feathers. Some people can afford to be snobby about food (or any other privilege) -- literally or figuratively -- and some can't. While I'm now at a place where I have ready access to fresh garlic, the time it takes to use properly, and the emotional capacity to focus on "trivial" things like fresh herbs, I remember a time when I didn't. 

My initial reaction, fuck you food snob. 

I have a jar of chopped garlic in my fridge that works great. I also use fresh sometimes too.

My gut can tolerate the tubed Japanese stuff I order from Amazon and he can eff off.

I wanted to add, as a person who cooks for a family of 1, I hate wasting ingredients. I’m not going to buy a 3 pack of garlic bulbs (or whatever you call them) to only use 2 or 3 tiny cloves in a meal and have to trash the rest because it sat on my counter for a month and rotted.

Jarred garlic in water works best for me.

I don’t know if this was a humorous quote by this particular “chef” or not but he’s not the only person I’ve heard disparaging jarred garlic.

I used to always use fresh garlic but I hate cleaning the garlic press so now usually buy jarred garlic. Oh well.

The quote sounds snobby to me.

This is me 🤢

🤣 I love garlic powder! Especially when you mix it with butter and put in on hot dog buns you heat up in the oven to make "garlic bread." #ahhchildhood

 

I have fresh garlic in my kitchen, and if I was going to make something right now, I’d probably pull the jar out of the fridge anyway. Sometimes easy is worth it. 🤷🏼‍♀️

(Also don’t know him other than he was a chef, and I believe died by suicide, so I don’t look at that quote with any sort of affection. It just sounds douchey.)

I agree fresh crushed garlic is way better and that's all I use. But life is short, food is expensive, eat what and how you want or can afford.

As it has been stated, he was a snobby chef. A good one and he traveled all over. I loved watching his shows. In my thoughts, he is saying if you are using garlic then for all that is holy, use the real stuff.

I will say, for my kitchen, I usually do use the fresh stuff. I smash it with my knife, peel and mince right up. It takes no longer than a good sneeze for the most part. I do have some jarlic in my fridge that I will use when I can sort of cover the taste of it. It is mostly in my mind, but the jarred stuff has a different, and not good to me, taste. But in a pinch, it works.

This. The quote is on brand for his public persona.

I love garlic and agree that fresh is better but have no need to judge other's choices.

I read Kitchen Confidential when it came out in 1990. This sounds just like him. And I do like him. So no hate from me.

As for fresh vs. jarlic, I use fresh almost always, but there is a sauce I make when we have rice bowls, and I like it better with jarlic than fresh.

My first reaction was to laugh. I expect chefs to turn up their noses at garlic from a jar. That doesn’t change the fact that I use (and appreciate) garlic from a jar.

(1) I don’t love garlic all that much. Not worth the trouble (to me) to mess around with fresh.

(2) I HATE the smell of garlic on my hands. Refuse to touch it for that reason alone.

(3) I’m a lazy cook and no matter how many of you claim it’s faster to peel and smash fresh than open the refrigerator door … yeah, no.

(4) I tend to reduce the amount of garlic in a recipe, not increase it.

(5) I would walk right past (and have, a number of times) a recipe that focused on large amounts of garlic. No thanks.

(6) the one thing I might consider buying fresh garlic for would be garlic bread. But I haven’t made it in years. Never sounds appealing enough to bother.

(7) roasted garlic is okay, if someone else makes it.

I use crushed garlic in a jar, not minced. I like it better. But our grocery stores don’t carry it anymore (dunno why) and I have to order it from Amazon. It’s worth it. Mine (from Christopher Farms) has a little olive or soy oil added, but the nutrition information says zero grams of fat, so it can’t be much.

This is not a heavily processed food.