I just threw away a pot of spaghetti sauce because it didn’t smell or taste right from the get go. I started the sauce as usual by sauteing garlic in oil but the newly tried elephant garlic never achieved the normal nutty bloom that regular garlic makes. after an hr of cooking I just threw it out. It smelled weird like I was cooking paint.
I now realize that this is not even from the garlic family. Is the taste that radically different?
It’s leeks isn’t it? I’ve never tried it.
I tried elephant garlic once. It didn’t really taste like real garlic at all. It was much weaker than normal garlic and had some weird off taste. It was awful and I tossed it.
That’s exactly it. It was a very strange taste and it didn’t remotely remind me of garlic.
Put me down as not a fan.
I bought it once thinking, yeah! giant garlic! I’m gonna garlic me up some mashed potatoes! I didn’t find it had an off taste. It just tasted like garlic with all the flavor taken out. Elephant garlic is the un-garlic. Reminded me of those big, red juicy looking strawberries that appear off-season. When you bite into them they taste like-- water.
Thou shalt not diss the Allium family
You’re expecting too much from elephant garlic because it’s called garlic. Anticipate a much milder, more oniony flavor and it’s fine.
I’m growing some currently, alongside “real” and much more pungent garlics. Looking forward to harvesting those baseball-sized heads.
I bought it once, thinking it would be great or they couldn’t charge as much as they were. Never bought it again.
I once cooked some elephant garlic in my pyjamas.
I tried to compensate for the “mild” flavor by adding more. It didn’t produce the right taste at all when sauteed. Not even close.