Tom's Guide: Best Garlic Presses In 2025
By Camilla Sharman
If you enjoy cooking with garlic, here are the best garlic presses to make mealtime prep a breeze.
A garlic press is a staple kitchen gadget for anyone who likes to cook. Whether your forte is a simple tomato sauce or a delicate consommé, garlic adds extra flavour to a whole host of dishes. That’s why it’s always worth having one of the best garlic presses to help with food prep.
Besides crushing garlic and removing the pulp with minimal waste, a good garlic press should be simple to assemble and easy to use with a comfortable grip. It also needs to be easy to clean so no garlic residue remains when you use it next time.
A garlic press can also cut down on your prep time, save your hands from smelling of garlic and, if your chopping skills are anything like mine, give you finer results.
To help you decide on the best garlic press, we’ve tested a wide range of gadgets. We’ve looked at how effective they are at crushing garlic, how much skin they remove, and how easy they are to use and clean.
Specifications
- Material: Aluminium
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Dishwasher safe: Yes, but says hand wash recommended
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Dimensions: 2.12 x 1 x 6.38 inches Weight: 5.12 ounces
Reasons to buy:
- Includes garlic remover tool and cleaning tool
- Easy to clean
- Lightweight
This Zyliss Susi 3 Garlic Press may resemble a stapler, but this was rated as the best lightweight garlic press in our tests. The updated model from earlier versions of Zyliss’ garlic press features a large hopper that can accommodate one large clove or two small cloves. You don’t need to remove the garlic peel before placing the clove in the hopper but we discovered that you get more garlic out if you remove the skin first.
This Zyliss Susi 3 Garlic Press gets points for being lightweight at just 5.12 ounces, but we still needed to use both hands to exert more grip strength to crush large cloves of garlic. Bear in mind, you’ll need to ensure the metal crusher lines up in the hopper properly before bringing the two pieces together to crush the garlic.
The designers at Zyliss included a cleaning tool that can be used to remove the leftover skin with one end by poking it into the hopper, and using the teeth on the other end to remove any leftover garlic. Out of all the garlic presses we tested, we found this to be one of the best cleaning tools that came with a garlic press.
Nevertheless, the Zyliss Susi 3 Garlic Press is a good, simple garlic press for someone who occasionally uses garlic in cooking, doesn’t want anything hefty, and doesn't want to get their hands dirty!
