Garlic cloves can be transformed without excessive force. In other reviews was mentioned that high Krafaufwand would be needed and you can simply squeeze the fingers. Both I could not understand at the press delivered me. For very large cloves of garlic, the temples are but possibly a bit far apart for smaller hands. The here then greater force is necessary, may be. To work around this problem, you can simply divide the garlic but before the pressing operation.
The press chamber can be removed from the press and cleaned separately. My old press it had not and was therefore to clean a little more complicated.