Bought a fancy 50 dollar garlic press and it broke in 2 weeks

I saw this nice garlic press at a kitchen store in Portland and thought it would save me time chopping cloves for my budget stir fries. After using it maybe 5 times the hinge snapped and I had to toss it. Anyone know a simple press that won't fall apart after a month?

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mason_ward2d ago

Three bucks at a yard sale, my buddy swears by this old school metal press he found. Thing looks like it survived a war. Hinge is solid, no cheap plastic joints. He's had it for years, uses it every Sunday for his pasta sauce. Meanwhile my fancy Williams-Sonoma one crapped out after three garlic cloves.

paul_webb452d ago

My grandmother had a cast iron nutcracker that looked like it survived the civil war, she'd crack walnuts with it while muttering about the neighborhood kids. Thing was so heavy you could use it as a doorstop, but that nutcracker never broke a single hinge in fifty years. Sometimes old metal just has that stubborn refusal to quit, like a grumpy uncle who won't leave the cookout.