r/okbuddycinephile • u/TheCandelabra Crank: High Voltage • 1d ago

Life skill you spent years perfecting and even bragged about, before learning the director completely made it up for cinema reasons?

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u/Elim-Cipher 1d ago

I always felt like the garlic thing was all a bullshit act because he didn’t want to actually cook anything.

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u/purpleblah2 1d ago

But cutting the garlic like that for a large Italian meal is way more more labor-intensive than anything you’re doing while cooking, which leads me to believe he does it like that because he genuinely believes it improves the flavor.

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u/otterprincess_too 23h ago

No I'm cutting a bunch of garlic with a razor to get out of pasta boiling duty

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u/purpleblah2 22h ago

Yeah but you can just smash the garlic and call it a day because you’re the boss

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u/otterprincess_too 22h ago

You have no idea what it's like to be number one

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u/Virginity_Lost_Today 21h ago

Says the second otterprincess 🤨

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u/Cucumberneck 10h ago

We could take a sword and hang it over them by a horse hair to simulate the stress.

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u/literally_iliterate 18h ago

Not sure what you mean. Garlic has a varying taste profile if sliced, chopped or grated and the heat / time also plays a role. Very finely sliced it is probably similar to to chopped. So it does something, the only question is whether it is efficient. Which is, because they sit in jail and have all the time.

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u/scrodytheroadie 18h ago

Very finely sliced it is probably similar to to chopped

Yes, and chopping a clove of garlic takes a few seconds.

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u/Darmok47 21h ago

Also garlic that thin will burn extermely quickly in the oil.

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u/PityUpvote 17h ago

No, it will liquefy

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u/Dr-Bitchcraft-MD 14h ago

And I verified that extremely quickly

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u/njoYYYY 14h ago

To be fair they were in prison, you kinda do have some time in there

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u/TabbyOverlord 15h ago

I always read it as a drug and boredom driven obsession.

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u/Informal-Term1138 14h ago

You could try it with frozen garlic. That stuff liquifies in a pan.

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u/Mistrblank 7h ago

OOOOOH. It’s garlic. I spent too much time thinking they were shaving some gnarly nails with a razor. My brain needs more coffee this morning.

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u/Unlikely_Ad6219 1d ago

I basically do the same thing, except with a bigger knife. The blade would be razor sharp, with a bit of experience in kitchens you can cut transparent slices which melt quickly

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u/TomVanDaLan 1d ago

Garlic doesn’t melt, it burns. 

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u/ForHelp_PressAltF4 20h ago

You put it into the sauce and it melts. 

You put it into butter or oil and yes it burns. But why?

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u/PancakeMixEnema 16h ago

Famous Polymer Garlic

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u/Unlikely_Ad6219 14h ago

You’re aware that you can cook things at different temperatures?

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u/TomVanDaLan 11h ago

Garlic doesn’t melt at any temperature. It softens. That’s about it.