You can use jarred garlic all you like. If someone gives you shit, tell them GFY. I use it once in a while, e.g. for marinades. One method of crushing that I

You can use jarred garlic all you like. If someone gives you shit, tell them GFY. I use it once in a while, e.g. for marinades. One method of crushing that I don't see here: if you have drinking glasses with heavy glass bottoms (most of them, from what I can tell), you can just smash the clove with that. Peel the skin, then smash the clove again. Now it might be usable as is, but if not, you can chop it pretty easily. I've never broken a glass that way.