The peel is thicker and attached firmly to the root, so cutting off the root end first will save a lot of time and effort peeling garlic.
you can avoid stripping the peel into tiny sticky pieces or digging grooves into the clove while you gouge or scrape off the peel from the top or side.
this is another lifehack I would have appreciated learning years earlier.
I cut the root off and use the garlic peeler tube
does this make peeling garlic easier for you?
I could never peel more than one piece of garlic at a time with these, and still had to do all the prep work beforehand of cutting off both ends and then cleaning the tube every time, and I had to push really hard on the tube.
the tubes were a lot more work for me than crushing or cutting off the root and peeling.