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Post by evangeline on Apr 29, 2017 7:37:55 GMT -5
Hi, One of my favorite things is roasted garlic. I use it in stocks and sauces and braises and just about anything I can think of. But making it is a pain and I never used to want to heat the oven up for a few heads of garlic (and often forgot to roast some when I have the oven fired up for other dishes. Call me Stupid!)
So I crinkled some old, used up, no good aluminum foil into balls and dropped them in the bottom of a double. Prepped four garlic heads w/olive oil & wrapped them individually, and dropped them in the pot on top of the balls. Used gas for three minutes. Opened the well several hours later. Perfect roasted garlic, nothing burned.
I omitted the balls of foil a second try, but the cloves in contact with the bottom were overdone and not good. Anything beyond a very light brown is acrid and will spoil the rest of the batch.
We always have super-used up aluminum foil around. Now I feel like I'm getting a few last uses or more out of the stuff! I wonder, is there a silicon product that could be substituted? (Or should I just buy a flame-tamer??)
Oh, and same technique used for a batch of baby sweet potatoes.
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Post by vaporvac on Apr 29, 2017 9:19:42 GMT -5
I've done similar ,but I think Chuckie? has used one of those little terra cotta garlic roasters with good result. Yours is a great idea for used foil and I imagine can be reused more than once. thanks for the idea!
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Post by evangeline on Apr 30, 2017 7:53:03 GMT -5
Hi, you're welcome! Experienced a cookware fail yesterday. Allowed a couple of tiny pieces of tomato to fall out of a crepe onto my carbon steel pan. Yikes! I will take this discussion to Chuckie's thread about his deBuyer mineral pans. Woe! The pan was as smooth as silk and now it has the Pox. Next time I see a garlic roaster at the second hand store I'll bite. :-)
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Post by Chuckie on Apr 30, 2017 14:58:40 GMT -5
I've done similar ,but I think Chuckie? has used one of those little terra cotta garlic roasters with good result. Yours is a great idea for used foil and I imagine can be reused more than once. thanks for the idea! Posted on "the other" site in 2011: ---------------------------- Monkey has a terra cotta type garlic roaster, and roasts it in there all the time! Cuts the tops off, drizzles olive oil on it & seasons w/Italian seasoning. Twenty minutes gas, all day or another 40 of CWTGTO, and voila!, she is DONE!! The skins come right off, and the roasted garlic is almost like peanut butter to spread--GREAT on bread that's been spread w/butter & put under the Chambers broiler!!
Forgot to mention, she puts said terra cotta roaster on the THERMOBAKER when she does it in the well. It would BUST otherwise I'm sure from the heat.
CHEERS! Chuckie --------------------------- Here's a link to what ours looks like, 'cept it just says "Garlic Baker" and nothing about tortillas! www.amazon.com/Norpro-1064-Garlic-Tortilla-Warmer/dp/B001DM71KG/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1493582045&sr=8-6&keywords=garlic+bakerI sent the link so as to not add any more pix to the site, someone said it's filling up, so thought should save the space for actual Chambers pix. The bottom inside of ours is glazed, the rest is just plain terra cotta. Ours was a wedding present, and methinks it cost WAY MORE back 23 years ago then this one is!! Hope this helps! CHEERS! Chuckie
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Post by evangeline on Apr 30, 2017 18:33:01 GMT -5
Chuckie, that might be a little less messy than my foil packets. Cool!
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Post by pooka on May 1, 2017 1:05:29 GMT -5
I see these occasionally at the thrift stores. If I come across one for a few bucks, I'll keep you in mind & pick it up & send it to you for the price of postage.
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Post by evangeline on May 1, 2017 14:19:30 GMT -5
Pooka thanks. I know you have 'the eye.'
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