http://dorisandjillycook.com/2009/05/18/ask-the-goats-blue-garlic/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Adventures in Growing, Making, Preserving, and Eating Food Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:43:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://dorisandjillycook.com/2009/05/18/ask-the-goats-blue-garlic/comment-page-1/#comment-8081 Egon Thu, 28 Apr 2011 01:34:01 +0000 http://dorisandjillycook.com/?p=414#comment-8081 Hi, I was running a little research about this until I ended up on this because I have just had for dinner some salad which had bluish-green minced garlic in it.. My mom prepared for dinner what she calls chayote (or choko in Australia) salad, where she cuts this weird fruit or vegetable in cubes then cooks it on water until soft, then still warm she adds minced garlic, lemon juice, olive oil and salt and after a couple minutes there they are, blue garlic! And this happens every time! I always knew this was a chemical reaction and always trusted on the acid theory.. Now after all the curiosity, I have added a pinch of baking soda directly over the blue garlic and guess what? No color change! The garlic remained the mysterious blue color. Hope we can get someone reproduce the experiment and get more results! Thank you all. Hi, I was running a little research about this until I ended up on this because I have just had for dinner some salad which had bluish-green minced garlic in it.. My mom prepared for dinner what she calls chayote (or choko in Australia) salad, where she cuts this weird fruit or vegetable in cubes then cooks it on water until soft, then still warm she adds minced garlic, lemon juice, olive oil and salt and after a couple minutes there they are, blue garlic! And this happens every time! I always knew this was a chemical reaction and always trusted on the acid theory..
Now after all the curiosity, I have added a pinch of baking soda directly over the blue garlic and guess what? No color change! The garlic remained the mysterious blue color.
Hope we can get someone reproduce the experiment and get more results! Thank you all.

]]> http://dorisandjillycook.com/2009/05/18/ask-the-goats-blue-garlic/comment-page-1/#comment-8046 GregInAtlanta Fri, 15 Apr 2011 02:13:32 +0000 http://dorisandjillycook.com/?p=414#comment-8046 Wow if you did all of that and it still didn't turn blue, then I am with you. I will give it a shot myself and let you know the results ok. Thanks for the chemistry lesson too. Wow if you did all of that and it still didn’t turn blue, then I am with you. I will give it a shot myself and let you know the results ok. Thanks for the chemistry lesson too.

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