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My 2012 How-To for making garlic powder (Revised)

Now I say "my 2012 How-To". That means I did it different last year and I will probably do it different next year. So this is how it went this time. It seemed to work OK. I have Carpal Tunnel coming on so this took me 3 hours or so. Still worth it every little bit. :wink: I started peeling every bulb but that became too much and it was taking too long. this is going to be powder so a little scruff is OK. There is no soil or bugs in there so.....

Last year I pealed every bulb and than cut them in slices. This year I have a "Vadalia Chop Wizard", which by the way does miracles with onions late fall. :wink: So I put them through this and it helped with peeling every one. Most of the skin was retained in the blade section. I also started out with the small blade but found out the bigger blade worked better for me.

Here is the first phase rundown:

The garlic ready to get chopped.
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Garlic on the "Chop Wizard"
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Chopped garlic, you can see the skin left behind on the blade which made for easier cleanup.
[img]https://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj185/gixxerific/Gardening/DSC05873.jpg[/img]

I have a multi layer dehydrator, here is what I came up with so far. It may look like a lot but after dried and ground up it is much less in volume. :(
[img]https://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj185/gixxerific/Gardening/DSC05874.jpg[/img]

Dehydrator doing what it does best.
[img]https://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj185/gixxerific/Gardening/DSC05875.jpg[/img]
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OK here is the grinding process that I did. Now remember that this isn't set in stone, any better ideas would be great. 8)

First off whenever griding anything into powder I HIGHLY suggest getting a [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burr_mill]Burr Mill Grinder[/url]. A Burr Mill Grinder cuts and smashes as you can see by the teeth, something a rock grinder. The blade grinders just don't cut it, pun intended.
[img]https://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj185/gixxerific/Gardening/DSC05877.jpg[/img]

Here is all the garlic I cut up. As I said I diced it. This was faster but I'm not sure if it was better. Doing slices takes more time but normally ends up thinner. I burned up the grinder in the previous photo. It was junk though in the first place ($10 on clearance).
[img]https://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj185/gixxerific/Gardening/DSC05878.jpg[/img]

I still grind up the garlic in a small food processor. Garlic is very hard when dry and still sticky with oil so it makes it hard on the final grinder. Don't laugh at my little processor, yes I need a good one. But for what? 98% of my processing is done with a chef's knife.
[img]https://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj185/gixxerific/Gardening/DSC05880.jpg[/img]

Here is the finished processing. Notice the new grinder. The old POS died last night. This one works great, a few hick-ups when I tried to do it on fine but when done on coarse it worked great. I did throw the powder through one more time on fine/med. This would be just fine with something soft like herbs or coffee beans, but like I said garlic gets VERY hard when dried.
[img]https://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj185/gixxerific/Gardening/DSC05882.jpg[/img]

Well after all that here is the final product, it is a bit of work but well worth it. I ended up with 10 -11 ounces of fresh EXTREMELY PUNGENT garlic powder. I can't wait to use some.
[img]https://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj185/gixxerific/Gardening/DSC05886.jpg[/img]

Please any comments, questions or suggestion are more than welcome.

Dono
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yeah! I'm excited to see this. it is what I really want to do next year, and I have a dehydrator. can't wait to see the end results!

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very nice I usually just slice my garlic then dehydrate it. Honestly both ways looks like a lot of work but so worth it. I just love my garlic....great job

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I sliced mine before but this way is a little easier and faster and safer.

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It has got to be a lot faster and a great idea I will probably do something simular ....but I do like eating the sliced garlic like potato chips lol nobody hangs around me unless they really like the smell of garlic...

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