'Aroma of garlic and bicycle tire,' a garlic powder taste test
Lynne ranks five garlic powders, which range in taste from fresh garlic to something you get on a bad pizza.
1. Frontier Natural Products Organic Garlic Powder (Norway, Iowa)
Bulk garlic powder from a local co-op. This is the standout. Where all the other powders tasted toasted and/or metallic and/or simply awful, this one tastes clearly of fresh garlic. Often sold in bulk, it is available all over the country.
2. Penzey's Granulated Garlic Powder
A distant runner-up and the least metallic of the rest of the lot. But in being toasted, it, like others, tasted of bouillon cube -- attractive in a pinch, but not the powder you want to live with.
3. Tone's Garlic Powder (origin China, packed in U.S.)
Not pleasant, but a toasty garlic taste, not robust or round. Nah.
4. McCormick's Garlic Powder (origin China, packed in U.S.)
Smells like a bouillon cube. Doesn't have good garlic flavor -- tastes likes what you get on a bad pizza. May have been toasted, but none of that full garlic taste.
5. Spice Hunter Organic Granulated Garlic
Aroma of garlic and bicycle tire. Tastes salty with lots of garlic heat but not strong flavor.
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