Black Garlic
Garlic blog posts
Tim created a system for producing black garlic (from regular garlic). It consists of a styrofoam cooler lined with aluminum foil, a lightbulb for heat, some ceramic tiles for reflection, and then canning jars with garlic inside.
Black garlic is expensive but it can be made relatively inexpensively. The setup spent several weeks in my car, then a couple months in the corner of the house.
Since different garlic has been observed to produce different results (cheaper garlic from Sam's wasn't as flavorful), I purchased all the differently packaged garlic that I could find at an Albertson's. There was a mesh bag of three cloves, a box of two labelled "organic", a bag of two labelled the same, and part of a clove of elephant garlic, plus a couple of larger unpackaged cloves. I put these all into small canning jars, except for the larger two cloves that wouldn't fit, and then sat them on the cooler for a month.
2-11:
- Put the jars in the cooler
- poked the probe for an electronic thermometer through the side
- filled empty beer bottles with water and put them in the cooler for thermal mass (to help regulate the temperature) and to block the garlic jars from direct light
- plugged it in
