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Big English
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- From Vancouver, Canada
- Member since Fri 29 Dec 06
Garlic turning blue
My friend, Keilah, asked me I'd ever seen garlic turn "day glow blue" while cooking it. I can't say I have, but was wondering if anyone here has?
Any idea what may cause the garlic to turn birght blue?
Would it the the oil or temperature its cooked it? Apparantly its happened a couple of times, either while cooking in a wok or boiling while making a stew.
Ideas?
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#2 Tue 20 Feb 07 6:10am
The White Rabbit
- From Sydney, Australia
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Re: Garlic turning blue
It's a chemical reaction. I've not seen it personally.
http://thegarlicstore.com/index.cgi/faq.html
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#3 Tue 20 Feb 07 10:23am
SusanneH
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Re: Garlic turning blue
Interesting! I had never heard of that. I just knew that trout can turn blue (it's a on many menus in Germany - it's usually a poached rainbow trout. The acid makes the slippery stuff on the surface of the fish turn blue)
Thanks for bringing it up, Big English.
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#4 Tue 20 Feb 07 10:40am
Ashen
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Re: Garlic turning blue
i have seen it turn a green/blue colour a couple of times.. if you add lemon juice to fresh minced garlic and leave it for awhile it will sometimes this. A friend of mine had alot of garlic and thought they would make up a whole jar of minced garlic to save some prep. time thoughout the week.. When we visited them she brought out this jar of green minced garlic to ask me what the hell had happened lol. She had added some lemon juice to keep the minced garlic from going brown , instead it went green 
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#5 Tue 20 Feb 07 1:20pm
SusanneH
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Re: Garlic turning blue
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#6 Tue 20 Feb 07 1:41pm
itsdanny
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Re: Garlic turning blue
Yeah, just mince a clove and squeeze in a bit of lemon, leave it a few mins and bingo, Green/Blue garlic. 
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#7 Tue 20 Feb 07 10:57pm
sweetie-pie
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Re: Garlic turning blue
Yes - this has happened to me when trying to make sweet chilli sauce which involved cooking garlic in vingear and the garlic turned bright blue!!
I think it is something to do with the sulphuric compounds in the garlic interacting with copper in the vinegar to produce copper sulphate. Apparently its harmless, but I didn't eat it - it looked quite off putting!
SP
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#8 Tue 20 Feb 07 10:59pm
ellboy
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Re: Garlic turning blue
the air has turned blue in my kitchen a few times, never the garlic tho.
el.
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#9 Wed 21 Feb 07 12:05am
SusanneH
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#10 Sun 04 Mar 07 12:27am
Big English
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Re: Garlic turning blue
As ever, I thank you for you informative and witty responses.
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