I encourage everyone to watch today's video. Jesse does a first-rate job of demonstrating the GarlicZoom. Very cool.

i love using garlic, the more, the better. the video demo looks like it's fast and no garlic fingers. one question, how do you get the garlic out of the car thing? do you need a tiny spatula to scrape it out? thanks.

I was really curious to see how you get the minced garlic out. The video skipped that part. Can anyone give insight into the ease of extracting the garlic from the carriage?

My first reaction was: I've GOT to have this. The video is very useful; without a video there would have been no way to understand this product and know whether you wanted to buy it or not. But my immediate reaction upon seeing the video is: how did we get the minced garlic out? There's a gap in the video, which, frankly, seems rather suspicious. Why was that omitted? Maybe the problem with this gadget is that it's very hard to get the chopped garlic out. It's a lot of tiny little pieces that are (as he said in the video) sticky. And I see now that the commenters who got here before me asked the same thing. You just turn it upside down and tap it? But those little pieces are sticky. I just can't imagine that they come out easily. Using the tip of a butter knife takes time. As CookingDiva said above, a tiny rubber spatula (we have one of those) would probably be best. But can you really maneuver the spatula in there, what with all those blades? I'm very dubious.

I found the Garlic Zoom in a cool kitchen store in the Pittsburgh strip district. I asked one of the employees to tell me about their favorite new gadget. I bought it, took it home, and find it is one of the things we use the most. Kids (mine are experienced cooks, and not little guys), adults. (It's always sitting on the counter top, drying, from the last night's use.) I like avoiding the garlic smell on my fingers. It works perfectly. I can get 80-90% of the garlic out with a couple taps, as Shannon says. I don't worry about the rest. I just rinse those bits down the drain.

Best video you guys have made yet!

@Daniel, getting the garlic out was very easy--I just knocked it out onto a plate. It's so easy to mince more garlic I didn't even bother to get every last piece out...

@Daniel. Jesse our video director is uploading a new version of the video WITH the garlic being removed from the GarlicZoom. Loved your comment because we knew immediately that we needed to hop to it! Certainly nothing suspicious in "the gap" - just part of the magic of editing and how we like to zip around to keep our videos snappy!

Jesse said not to pack in the garlic, but I'm curious, how many cloves can you put in at a time?

@Dave...glad you like the video and thanks for letting us know. The rest of us are learning all the time...but Jesse is a pro.

@Daniel, I've got one of these and with just a tap you get most of the garlic out. At first I worried about the small amount of garlic still in the Zoom after a gentle tap until I realized, "Forget about that little bit. Just was it down the drain." A quick rinse with hot water and it's cleaned. I love how I can get the garlic exactly as fine as I want. I took a Mediterranean cooking class at Cambridge Adult Education Center and the particular instructor liked garlic to be very large pieces. In dressing and other recipes, I like it to be quite small. All one has to do is 'drive' the Zoom a few more times and it goes from 'large' to 'small.' I can see why this was the number one new product in the cooking store in Pittsburgh. This is a great Grommet!!

We've owned this little garlic Zoom for three months and it gets tons of use. I can't imagine going back to the old way of cutting garlic (smelly fingers and all.) This is a "must have" in any kitchen where you use recipes with garlic on a frequent basis. (At least once a week in our house.)

@DJP - Thank you for stopping by and sharing your experience. I'm always amazed at how that garlic smell sticks to your fingertips!