NexTrend 4th Generation Garlic Twister Review

The highlights: 

What is it?: NexTrend 4th Generation Garlic Twister – essentially, it does the job of a garlic crusher, but instead of having to push down, you twist the top and bottom around.

Does it work?: Yes

Would I buy it again?: Yes, although it comes with a Lifetime Guarantee, so I don’t think I’d have to!

Other options?: There are lots of other garlic crushers, but this design is patented so there shouldn’t be anyone else out there making the exact same thing…although I guess it’s always possible that someone has copied the design in breach of the patent, right? The NexTrend one has NexTrend written in the plastic of the garlic twister, so you should be able to see pretty easily if the one you are looking at is the right one!

Where to buy:  My mum bought this for me a few years ago now as a gift, and it was a really great gift for someone who enjoys cooking! I have managed to find this on Amazon though.

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Seriously, who knew a girl could get so excited about a garlic crusher! I love this little garlic twister, and whilst I still have the garlic crusher in the kitchen drawer, it rarely comes out! This garlic twister, for me, is just so much easier to use.

When using this twister, I find it much less effort than using a traditional push down garlic press type crusher, but using the twister does take a certain amount of strength in your wrists to twist it back and forth. Of course, you can cut the garlic into smaller pieces before putting it into the crusher to help with this. The more garlic you add, or the bigger the size of the garlic clove you put in (or both), the harder it is to twist it. NexTrend also add a disclaimer that if you have arthritis in your wrists, then you may struggle to use this product, but you know your own strength, so I’ll leave that up to you to decide. That said, I don’t think age in general makes a difference – in fact, my mum got me this one when I was still living in Leeds, so in my late 30s, because she bought one and loved it so much (don’t worry mum – I won’t disclose your age). I’m now 42 and I am still using the same garlic twister, and my mum still has hers too, so it is also pretty solidly made. Although I have never dropped it on the tiled floor or anything, so can’t confirm if it would survive that, from the perspective of everyday use (and yes, I do use garlic almost every day) then it has survived the test of time of about 3-4 years so far. It is more expensive that other options on the market, but I really love this, so would buy the same one again, and “cost per use” it’s pennies!

Also, this garlic twister doesn’t leave loads of garlic behind – you know that part of the garlic clove that just won’t squish through the garlic press, no matter how hard you push? Well, that is a thing of the past with this! No more wasted garlic! And I do love garlic, so hate that I can’t get all of it out of a traditional garlic press! When using this garlic twister, the garlic can gather along the teeth, but I just twist it a little further out of the teeth and then use a teaspoon to pop it out and it’s done! Also, because the garlic twister has a bottom and top to it, it is self-contained. This means I can crush the garlic, and leave it in the container while I get on with the other parts of cooking.

When I am ready to add garlic, I just lift the lid, push out the crushed garlic with a teaspoon, then do the same with the bottom, and I’m done!

I also love that this garlic twister is dishwasher safe, so once I have used it, I fling it in my super-duper-best-dishwasher-I-have-ever-used (review of that coming soon – subscribe to stay in the loop there!) and that’s it! I’m sorted! Made in the USA, the 4th Generation garlic twister is also BPA-Free, so you’re safe there if you worry about what goes into the plastics you eat and drink from! You can get the twister in clear, green or pink, but I just have the clear one. Besides, I’m not too worried about multicoloured cooking utensils.

The product description itself says that you can use it with lots of other ingredients – ‘from garlic, to ginger, herbs, nuts and more!’ So, I tried it with ginger, and it works for that too! Although all the ginger juice does come out, so be careful you don’t turn it upside down. Also, ginger is tougher than garlic, so it was more difficult to twist it out. You will also have to slice the ginger very thinly for this to work, otherwise this will be quite hard work to use. I have a really good knife. It's made by the Japanese company, Kai Shun, which are pretty well established in the Japanese knives world. Their Kai Shun knives are super expensive, but you can get their Kai Wasabi knives which aren't as expensive. I'm not sure which one I have, as my brother got it for me for Christmas about 5 years ago, but I think looking at the knives on a London Based cook shop website that sells them, it might be a Kai Wasabi knife. Anyway, having a really good knife has meant that slicing the ginger very thinly was easy-peasy! If your kitchen knives aren't too great though, then this might be harder for you than it was for me! Here’s the video of the ginger:

I have only tried it with garlic and ginger – if I get a chance to test out other ingredients, I will come back and update this review. 

So, overall, I really love this little garlic crushing tool, hopefully you will too!

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with love

Rebecca

xxx

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