This Ingenious Way Of Garlic Peeling Hack Is Taking Internet By Storm; Find Out Why

Move over difficult and tedious ways of peeling the garlic! A new video has surfaced online that makes the otherwise strenuous and boring task seem like a short jog in the park. A new video, showing how to peel a clove of garlic in mere seconds using a paring knife has gone viral on social media, with people exclaim that they never knew that there was such a simple hack for it.

A Twitter user, @VPestilenZ shared a video of a swift and fast technique of peeling garlic which left a number of home cooks in awe, with many even attempting or promising to use the hack themselves.

As someone who makes a lot of Korean food, this is the best method for getting garlic peeled!
👌 pic.twitter.com/14GGJDQhRj

— 𝖛𝖆𝖑𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖎𝖓𝖆 ✣ 𝖑𝖔𝖗𝖉 🌑 (@VPestilenZ) 17 June 2019

The video shows a pair of hands easily removing each clove of garlic from the peel before placing it in a bowl, using nothing but a small knife which is being used to impale the clove from the bottom.

Since being posted, the video has been viewed around twenty million times, with over four lakh likes and a little more than a lakh re-tweets.

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One user tweeted that knowing the hack would have helped him more garlic over the years. He posted, "Not sure how I never knew about this. I lament when I consider how much more garlic I could have used during all these years had I only known of this technique."

Victoria Yeates, who is known for her role in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald too tweeted "Life changing," to the video. She also wrote, "I can’t believe I’ve been wasting all that time. I’ve never been this excited to make dinner."

I can’t believe I’ve been wasting all that time. I’ve never been this excited to make dinner 😂

— Victoria Yeates (@VictoriaYeates) 17 June 2019

Model and cookbook author Chrissy Teigen was one of the many, who were left awed by the video and left a lengthy 'what' comment to it to express her shock.

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT https://t.co/tLEl5BtQr3

— christine teigen (@chrissyteigen) 17 June 2019

One user even posted, "And I spent money a special garlic peeler, then learned that pressing each clove with the flat side of a knife does the same. Now this. Separate and peel in one movement. Love efficiency -- and garlic. TY"

And I spent money a special garlic peeler, then learned that pressing each clove with the flat side of a knife does the same. Now this. Separate and peel in one movement. Love efficiency -- and garlic. TY

— Jill Wine-Banks (@JillWineBanks) 18 June 2019

But there were those who were not that convinced.

Man, I just went through a head of garlic working on my technique and just ended up with a bunch of broken cloves ☹️

— Dr. Jen Golbeck (@jengolbeck) 17 June 2019

I can’t get it to work

— p1nt1nho🐥 (@p1nt1nh0) 17 June 2019

Thats my fear. Mangled garlic with traces of blood.

— Renee (@renearain) 17 June 2019

For the unversed, wondering why peeling garlic should be so important, for starters, it takes a mighty lot of time to peel them before they can be used in recipes, and if you still need conviction as to why you should know a bit about the techniques, it turns out that Garlic contains compounds with medicinal properties. The other benefits of garlic include:

Garlic is low in calories but is a rick trove for vitamin C, vitamin B6 and manganese.

Garlic and garlic supplements help prevent and reduce effects of flu and common cold.

And finally, high doses of garlic may help improve blood pressure for those with hypertension.