Make Your Own Garlic Powder

I,ve been growing great garlic in my back yard for 20yrs, 20-30 flower every year. I make dry flower arrangements but now I wish to try powdering. My question is, does the garlic have to be soft or can the process be done with fresh cloves? I really am looking foward to get my little project going asap. Would appreciate some insight on the issue. Thanks D.C.Dubocq

I don't know what allicin is. Please elaborate for me?I use a
dehydrator to dry foods. I'm sure to make Garlic Flakes you would
grate the garlic (rather than grind or blend) with a large holed
grater and then dehydrate as usual. When I made the dehydrated
onions, I ground them with a hand crank grinder. This made large
chunks that could have been considered "flakes".

very educative. please let me know how to make garlic flakes at
homeanil agarwal

Part comment part question.I copied the below paragraph from
another site. I understand that allicin is the most important part
of garlic to injest. Raw garlic has it but when you cook it you
lose it.Please tell me if the 150 degrees for as long as it takes
to dry it destroys some or all of the allicin. Thank you. Copied
paragraph:Not all garlic contains the same amount of active
ingredients. In fact, there is a fairly wide variation in the
amount of allicin and other important ingredients in both fresh
garlic and commercial products. The amount present depends on where
the garlic is grown as well as how the product is prepared. Some
experts believe that the wide variation in the quantity of active
ingredients in garlic preparations explains why there is some
variability in how well the substances lower cholesterol, improve
blood pressure, and fight infection in different people.

One year a freind of mine got hold of a ton of red onions. She
gave me 100 lbs. I used a grinder to grind the onions down first,
then spread the chuncks on screened solar dehydrator frames. The
Onions were dried and ready in about 3 hours. (Of course, we live
in Arizona where the sun and heat make short work of very long
stories!)Those Onions were great for eating as a snack too. Oh boy!
What a treat!

You can do this with sprouting (or non-sprouting) onions also.
We had a bumper crop of Walla Walla onions this year and made some
great onion powder!Cut into ~1/2inch slices, remove core and green
sprout and dry the way you would the garlic.I prefer using a coffee
grinder rather than a blender for powdering. You can also make
paprikas of all sorts this way, fom sweet to hot to spicey. Mixing
different varieties together adds a great complexity to any of your
concoctions.