Don't know where else to post this but I was getting ready to cook dinner (sloppy joes) and found this absolutely massive clove of garlic.

Can of coke for scale as I have larger than average hands.

Edit: It's elephant garlic. I am a stupid 🙃

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SarahValentine@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 41 pts · 101d

Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 101d (2 replies)

garlic

Kaerkob@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 101d (1 reply)

Always two, there are.

Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 101d

Heads? I think you mean two heads.

kichae@wanderingadventure.party · 14 pts · 101d (1 reply)

That's pretty good! I've used larger -- not counting elephant garlic -- but that one's up there among some of the greats!

Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip · 3 pts · 101d

Your mom has used larger.

Zeppo@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 101d (3 replies)

That’s a big one. The largest I’ve seen is a bulb of garlic that was just one clove.

ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 101d (1 reply)

It never occurred to me that garlic could just not separate when growing like this.

A whole bulb being one solid piece would be interesting to see

Zeppo@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 101d

Apparently there’s a variety that always does that called solo garlic.

brem@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 101d

Fasciated, perchance?

mushroommunk@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 101d (5 replies)

You sure you didn't accidentally pick up some elephant garlic?

ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 101d (4 replies)

Y'know I just went and looked at the package and that's exactly what happened lmao

Reminds me of the person who bought a carton of double yolk eggs without realizing and thought they just kept getting lucky 😅

brem@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 101d (3 replies)

They should have "sideshow tents" at farmers markets that are just full of double yolked eggs & elephant garlic.. maybe a few giant gourds or a potato that looks like Bill Burr.

ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 101d (2 replies)

That would actually make me more inclined to go to one.

Despite being a professional cook my whole life I don't know near as much about vegetables as I should. I know the typical ones obviously but the fact I didn't even know elephant garlic was a thing makes me feel kinda uninformed

RePsyche@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 101d (1 reply)

Have you considered feeling recently informed? It’s a fun thing to know about! That’s for certain!

ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 101d

Yeah but it just makes me realize how much I don't know and as a lifelong cook I should know.

Problem is I can't learn by reading or videos I need to be shown first hand in person how to do things in order to actually retain the information.

It's a special kind of hell 😭

Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 101d
amgine@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 101d

I had this one this evening

InvalidName2@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 101d (1 reply)

I was a comin' to say ... looks like a pretty standard sized clove of elephant garlic. Your edit has ruined my sanctimony and robbed me of my sense of superiority over you.

I like elephant garlic, but I don't like the price compared with plain ole run of the mill garlic. But this does give me an idea, maybe I should grow my own elephant garlic this year!

Floodedwomb@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 101d

It's also a lot milder than regular garlic.

ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 101d

In awre at the size of this lad

wuffah@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 101d

Oh yea? Once I found a clove of garlic thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis big!

FrChazzz@lemmus.org · 4 pts · 101d (6 replies)

Eat it! Eat it! Eat it!

ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 101d (4 replies)

Unfortunately I already minced it for my dinner 😅

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 101d

I mean, this seems like the optimal form of consumption, so... yea.

brem@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 101d (2 replies)

Smash don't mince

ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 101d (1 reply)

I do both! I smash it first then mince!

thallamabond@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 101d

Smash and pull apart, gets real soft, is good.

Johandea@feddit.nu · 2 pts · 101d

Unexpected Avenged Sevenfold

brem@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 101d

It's a little & fun unknown fact that garlic can eat garlic & become ultra-garlic

trinsec@piefed.social · 3 pts · 101d (1 reply)

Not big enough. Add more cloves.

SippyCup@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 100d

At least two more.

k0e3@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 100d

It's like a megalodon tooth.

PeroBasta@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 92d

Never heard of "aglione"?

Its an italian strain of garlic which is milder (so i think its similar to what you get can get in the USA)

Its very good and much better for some preparations

Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 100d

Wait... That's big? Most of the garlic I use is around this size. Bargain market sells it.