Get a garlic bulb and separate a clove. A clove is one of the small, wedge-shaped pieces that make up the entire "head" of garlic. Simply pull one off the cluster with your finger tips.
You can cut away the papery white skin as well to make this easier.
Cut away the brown top of the garlic. If there is a hard, thin brown "top" on the clove. Slice it away with your kitchen knife. This makes peeling slightly easier, but it is not strictly necessary, and some cloves will not have much of a stub to remove.
You can also cut the clove in half. This may make it easier to ultimately remove the skins.
Place the clove on a chopping board. Lay it flat side down, so that the part of the clove that was nearest to the center of the head faces away from you.
Place the flat side of the knife on the clove and push down firmly. You want a quick, firm strike with the heel of your hand. You'll hear a light crunch. Remove the blade to see the skin detached from the clove.
Peel away the skin and waste with your hands. You may need to practice a bit to learn how much pressure you can apply, but when you lift the knife you'll find that the skin comes right off.
Use the peeled clove, either chopped or full. Your clove is now ready for cooking.
Remove as many cloves as you need from the head. Remove any easily peeled skins briefly before moving on.
Soak the cloves in cold water for five minutes, making sure they are fully submerged. Place the cloves in 1-2 inches of water and let them rest. The water will loosen the skins. Use a metal whisk to beat the garlic and speed up the process.
Place the cloves in a covered or watertight container when possible. While the skins will loosen if they are soaked, you can also shake the container to knock the skins off the garlic even faster.
Remove from water. The skin should be loose and easily removed by hand now. Pinch off the skin by pulling on the clove, and cut the ends off if there is any tricky bits still stuck on the clove.
Remove the cloves you need from the head. Do no microwave the entire head of garlic, as this can ruin it for later nights. Simply remove the cloves you plan on using right then.
Put the garlic clove/s in the microwave for 5-10 seconds. With the garlic on a small plate, heat them up briefly on high. You should notice the skin billowing and loosening.
Cut away the loose remaining skin. Cut the root end off with a knife and the skin will slide off easily.
Place the entire garlic head inside one stainless steel bowl. This is a great method for pealing an entire head of garlic at once. Remove whatever loose papery skin you can by hand before beginning.
Cover the bowl with another identical stainless steel bowl. Place the bowls together, open side to open side, to form a larger 'sealed' bowl.
Hold the edges of the two bowls together and shake. Let the garlic clang around inside the bowls for 1-2 minutes, shaking vigorously.
Open the bowls and remove any waste. You should be left with the individual cloves, which will likely still be covered in skin. Remove the skins and the hard bottom chunk of the bulb and throw them in the compost or trash. Then reseal the bowls.
Keep shaking until all of the skins are removed. You may have to pick off some of the finer, thinner skins by hand, or use another method to remove the individual clove skins, such as soaking the cloves in water in the stainless steel bowl. However, with enough shaking the majority of skins should fall off on their own.
Separate the cloves. Pull the cloves you want to peel off the head and place them on a cutting board.
Place the cloves evenly under a dry cloth. The cloth will control the garlic from flying off the table as you hit it. Any kitchen towel will do.
Pound the garlic cloves once or twice with a mallet. This will crack the shell, allowing for better peeling. This is similar to using the knife blade, but it is easier to do on many pieces of garlic at once.
You don't want to smash the cloves, simply hit them lightly but firmly to get the skins off.
Remove the cloves from the cracked outer shell. Lift the cloth and pull away the remaining skins. You may need to cut some of the ends off to fully remove them.
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Attractive, friendly interface. Easy POI search. Routing performance mimics standalone Garmin devices.
Choppy map animation. Buggy. No traffic reporting without extra-cost plug-ins.
Bottom Line
Garmin's iPhone navigation app is still easy to use, but it has fallen behind its competitors and is surprisingly unpolished.
Since its release, Garmin's iPhone app has been a bit of a disappointment. After numerous iterations and a few name changes&it was called StreetPilot, and then StreetPilot Onboard, both for a time&the latest version is the best yet. But it's still not quite at the level of performance you'd expect from the industry sales leader for standalone
navigation devices. Garmin's app lags behind the competition in several key areas, and I'm still seeing some of the same bugs I saw two years ago when I last reviewed it. If you drive a lot, you'll be much happier with
(which is owned by Garmin), our Editors' Choice for paid GPS apps, or you could save the cash and go with&, our favorite free GPS app.
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User Interface and POI SearchThe main Garmin app is available in two versions: a $37.99 app that covers the lower 49 states, called U.S.A.; and a $44.99 app that adds Canada and Alaska, called North America. They're otherwise functionally equivalent. For this review, I tested Garmin U.S.A. 2.3 on a Verizon iPhone 5 running iOS 6.0.2.
Garmin sto this saves you money on your data plans, and it's also more reliable in areas with poor cell phone signals. Other features include support for 3D buildings, multi-segment routing, a trip planner and trip computer, a Detour button, a turn list view, and data field toggles for the map view that let you view elevation and current speed, among other things.
If you've ever used a Garmin standalone device, you know exactly what to expect here, and that's probably this app's biggest draw. The main interface resembles that of recent Garmin products almost exactly. Two large icons, Where To and View Map, dominate the home screen, with several smaller ones in a toolbar along the bottom. Tap Where To, and you'll see an array of choices for entering an address and running point-of-interest searches, plus an array of options for favorite addresses, recent destinations, intersections, cities, and address book contacts. You can use the app entirely in landscape mode as well as portrait mode, even on the menu screens.
I've always preferred Garmin's POI database and search algorithms, just because it arranges categories more sensibly than the competition. For example, it breaks down Shopping into subcategories, and has separate top categories for recreation, attractions, and entertainment, in addition to the usual food, lodging, fuel, ATM, hospital, and transit destinations.
Entering street addresses, however, is a little different than with other apps: first you enter the house number, and then the street. If there are only a few choices, it will display them in a type- otherwise, you choose the city next. To change the state, you do it at the beginning, before you enter the house number. It works fine in practice, and my iPhone never "hung up" or froze for several seconds while the app figured out the next step.
On the plus side, you also get Google Local Search, which lets you put in anything, anywhere, just like a Google search on a laptop. If you've gotten used to entering addresses from start to finish on a single line, a la Google Maps, you may want to use this feature more often instead.
Performance and ConclusionsOnce on the road, Garmin's map view looks quite good, with crisp fonts and smoothly drawn roads. It displays the current road speed limit as well as the current speed, and it's also iPhone 5-optimized. Map animation is surprisingly jerky, though. It&doesn't approach the standalone
3D terrain mapping or smoother animation, although you can get the former with an optional plug-in (see below). Either way, Google Maps and especially
both demonstrate you can get beautiful navigation graphics for free (although Apple Maps has its own issues).
As expected, Garmin's routing performance was excellent. While it doesn't quite "adapt" the way 's app does, with the latter's IQ Routes feature, or crowdsource results the way
does, Garmin has been at this long enough that its routing choices are usually spot on anyway. It's also easy to stop simply tap the new on-screen Stop button. (TomTom's app requires some contortions and aiming your finger at just the right spot, which is tough, if not dangerous, at full speed.) You can now report a "safety camera" (code for "photo camera speed trap") for other users by tapping the on-screen button on the bottom right. Another nice touch: When you arrive at your destination, the app displays a Google-sourced Street View photo, just like Google Maps does.
I saw a few bugs during testing. Once, the route overview screen showed a trip that was different than the one I was currently on. The trip computer screen also displayed a number of bad data fields, suggesting that I'd traveled more than 80,000 miles with the app. Other users around the Web have reported additional bugs with finding and navigating to different POIs under version 2.3, though I didn't personally run into this problem. Either way, stability still seems to be an issue with this app, which is unfortunate.
Garmin sells a number of extra-cost plug-ins, all of which are in-app purchases: Traffic ($13.99), Urban Guidance ($4.99, for public transit directions), photoLive Traffic Cameras ($5.99, for seeing traffic conditions across the U.S. live), Panorama View 3D ($7.99, essentially duplicates Garmin's standalone terrain mapping features), Vehicle Display Integration ($49.99, works only with a few select cars and Kenwood electronics). Many app makers are doing this sort of thing, but Garmin is unique in not offering any traffic reporting at all unless you pony up for the plug-in, which is a disappointment. TomTom also sells an HD Traffic plug-in, but still gives you regular real-time traffic with the main app for free.
The latest crop of iPhone navigation apps are extremely competitive. We can't help but get the feeling that post-Navigon acquisition, Garmin intends to eventually sunset this app in favor of Navigon's superior program&which would be fine, except that I know a lot of customers are switching from older Garmin devices to this fully updated iPhone app and wouldn't mind sticking with the same interface. Either way, in the meantime, if you're a Garmin fan and already like the company's admittedly excellent interface for its standalone devices, the Garmin app will make you feel right at home. Otherwise, Navigon is a more powerful paid alternative, while Google Maps, Waze, and
are all compelling free options, if somewhat less informative and not always as on the mark with their routing choices while driving.
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