Re garlic gadgets: I don't use a garlic press much (we keep breaking
them) so I have no comment. The useless garlic item I nominate is the
garlic peeler. An inventive RFCer gave out home made ones once, which
is nice because they recycled bike inner tubes; I never could get mine
to work that well and failed to see the point. I just use my knife to
slit open the skin, peel it off, crunch with the flat of the blade, and
mince. No it's never as fine as a garlic press would be but it's good
enough. We like garlic around here.

Leila