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(More customer reviews)I bought this while waiting impatiently for CI's recommended Zyliss Jumbo garlic press to arrive. After comparing the two, I liked this one much better. I later bought CI's latest favorite, the Kuhn Rikon and I have to say, I think I prefer the Calphalon. The latter two work pretty well, but the Calphalon is significantly less expensive, so I would go with it.
The Calphalon has a round well to put the garlic into. It has prongs on the plunger to pierce unpeeled garlic skins, which makes it easy to press them. The skins get stuck on the prongs, so you can add more garlic and keep pressing. It presses as much garlic out of the cloves as the other presses, unless you use peeled garlic. When pressing peeled cloves, a fair amount of garlic gets stuck to the prongs instead and you lose it. The solution is simple though--don't waste your time peeling the cloves. Clean-up is very easy with a toothbrush. The brush simply unsticks anything attached to the prongs and the whole thing is cleaned quickly under running water.
The handle of the press is a ~3/8 inch rod, extending from the garlic hopper, covered in rubber or silicone or some-such to make the grip confortable and non-slip. After pressing lots of garlic for 7 months, I did manage to snap one of the rods, but I may have been overzealous in trying to press more garlic out of the skins. (I detracted one star for it, nonetheless.) I now realize that there is probably no garlic press out there that is any better at extracting more garlic than this one is.
The Kuhn Rikon, on the other hand, is easy to squeeze and easy to clean, but it presses garlic out of any available crevice of which there seem to be many. The hopper is not closed in the front and garlic presses out of the front, and around the pusher as well as out of the holes. If it were not for getting garlic coming out all over the place, instead of just though the holes at the bottom, I just might agree that it is better. That not being the case, I would save my money and go with the Calphalon. It works really well and it easy to clean.
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