1. Garlic wheel. Requires brute strength and strong wrists. Doesn’t actually crush. Cloves need to be pre-chopped. Difficult to get garlic out. Difficult to clean. Plastic retains smell of stale garlic.
2. Garlic wheel. Actual wheel containing blades. Very small, doesn’t take more than a pre-chopped clove. More of a chopper than anything. Chunks of garlic get stuck in it. Easy to empty. Retains smell of garlic. Feels like a children’s toy and not an interesting one.
3. Garlic presses, various. A pain to clean. Collect fibre which needs to be taken out. Can break at the hinge. There is a reason why there have been so many attempts to rethink this.
4. Japanese porcelain ginger grater. Doesn’t retain smell. Effective. Hard to get bits out of teeth (grater’s, not own). Last bit can’t be grated without losing fingertips. Easy to clean. Smell never leaves fingers afterwards.
5. Microplane grater. Beautifully effective. Deadly to garlic and fingers alike.