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I increasingly want to be Alton Brown's friend and hang out with him at his food castle.

There are unitaskers that are in wide and successful use in the kitchen. The potato peeler for example. I mean, you can use it on carrots as well but it basically does one specific thing. The garlic press is generally considered to hold merit. I'm certainly never going to do that thing where you press down hard with the flat of an extremely sharp kitchen knife on an irregularly shaped clove of garlic.

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Maybe if you gave Rollie about 20 minutes and then gave Rollie a little bit of gentle attention, then Rollie would be ready to try again. Rollie swears this has never happened before.

Actually, after a little research, I found the problem. Alton didn't properly lube Rollie with cooking spray.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPV11t1Gm_Q

The garlic press? Are you serious???

The only acceptable unitasker is a potato ricer.

The ease of cleaning is what makes or breaks a device in my kitchen. Garlic presses are just a messy inconvenience to me (I prefer hand-washing to dishwashers). You don't have to use the flat of your blade; any heavy flat object will do, but only if i don't have time to slice it paper-thin. More pieces with a larger amount of surface area produce the best flavour.
Of course, if you're cooking for a larger group of people than a single family, this all goes out the window in favor of mass-production.

Knife > garlic press. For realz.

I looked up potato ricer on wikipedia, because wtf is that, and it said they "resemble a large garlic press", so then I clicked through to garlic press because that's what you do, you click every link, and there's a line that reads "Alton Brown has expressed suspicion about them on account of their having only one function."

I flat out disagree with him on the meat shredders. I made my pulled pork with a fork for at least two years before I stumbled over the claws. And every single time, it took about 30 minutes to do 5 pounds, and I suffered from the shredding equivalent of writer's cramp. With the claws, that same five pounds takes around 7-8 pain-free minutes. They're a bargain.

My wife and I -love- pulled pork, so I make it fairly often. I rate the claws just below my Aeropress (bought on Dag's recommendation, with never a regret), for value. The only reason they're below is that I use them once a month, instead of several times a day.

May be the best $9 I ever spent.