Garlic powder
Garlic powder is in 42 recipes, and swapping it for fresh garlic does not work. Powder disperses evenly through a dry rub or a sauce and dissolves; fresh garlic stays in pieces that burn in a hot pan and turn bitter long before the patty is done. Almost every fast-food copycat on this site relies on it, because the flavour profile people recognise from those chains is powdered rather than fresh. Buy it in small quantities: it loses aroma quickly and old garlic powder tastes faintly of dust.
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Recipes with garlic powder

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McDonald's Big Tasty (Copycat)

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