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Garlic & Shallot Cooperative
Black garlic: forty days of patience

Black garlic: forty days of patience

Black garlic is not burnt and not fermented — it is garlic held at a low, wet heat for forty days until its sugars and amino acids brown it from within. What comes out is soft as a date, sweet like molasses, with balsamic depth.

Day forty: soft as a date, dark as molasses.
Day forty: soft as a date, dark as molasses.

We age one small chamber per harvest. When a batch sells out, the next one is already thirty days away.