Everyone has garlic in the kitchen. Everyone. But how long does garlic last? And how long has yours been sitting there? Maybe it’s been in a nice little ceramic garlic vessel for the last year. Maybe there’s a few bulbs that have been hanging out on the top of your fridge for the past four months. Maybe there’s a renegade peeled garlic clove under your kitchen table from last night’s dinner prep. All very plausible. But are they still good?
We can give you general guidelines for how long garlic will last. If you keep a whole head of garlic unpeeled it will last close to six months. (That is, if you store it properly. More on that later.) A single, unpeeled clove will last about three weeks. But once you take the skin off, garlic starts to degrade more quickly. Individual peeled cloves will last up to a week in the fridge, and chopped garlic will last no more than a day unless stored covered in olive oil, in which case it will last two, maybe three days. But this is all assuming your garlic is stored in the right place. This is all to say that you should always buy whole, unpeeled heads of garlic and peel only as many cloves as you’re going to use at one time—as tempting as the pre-peeled or pre-minced garlic at the grocery store may look, chances are it’s been sitting around for way too long.
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There are things you can do to make sure your garlic stays tastier for longer, and they all have to do with storage. Unpeeled heads of garlic like to live in a dry, cool, ventilated, and dark place. Even though that sounds like the fridge, it’s not. Garlic should be stored closer to room temperature, away from heat. If you follow these rules, your garlic should live a long and prosperous life in your pantry.
But say you’ve got some heads of garlic that’ve been sitting around for a while, since you haven’t been cooking that much aglio e olio lately. How do you tell if it’s still good?
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