Do not waste $45 on that fancy garlic press from Williams Sonoma

I finally cracked and bought that expensive garlic press everyone swears by. First use, the handle snapped off while I was pressing a single clove. Tried to return it but I had tossed the receipt. So now I'm back to using my $3 flat blade from the Asian market and it works perfectly. I genuinely don't understand how a tool designed for one job can fail that fast. Has anyone else had a similar experience with a kitchen gadget that was just a total ripoff?

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graydavis14d ago

Man, that stinks. I've had the exact same luck with those fancier presses, they always seem to break at the worst time. My old wood handled one from a flea market is still going strong after ten years, go figure.

susanm5614d ago

I can't argue with graydavis about that flea market find lasting ten years, but just a small heads-up: wooden handles can sometimes split or warp if they get too wet, so it's worth keeping an eye on it. In my experience, old kitchen tools hold up great until they just don't, and then you're stuck scraping garlic off a broken piece. Not saying yours will fail, just that nothing lasts forever no matter how good it used to be.

lucasw8214d ago

Hate to break it to you but that fancy press was really just a $45 lesson in not trusting hype. My wallet and I are still recovering from the "indestructible" spatula that melted on my panini press.