How To Find The Best Potato-Peeler Variety

One may not think that putting some thought into the right kind of potato peeler is not that important, but a good potato peeler just might make the difference between a frustrating time in the kitchen and a smooth, easy cooking experience.

A potato peeler is a metal blade attached to a metal or plastic handle. and used for peeling vegetables aside from potatoes. There are three main varieties of potato peelers available in the market today.

The Yorkshire, also known as the Lancashire potato peeler, is designed pretty much like a knife. The potato peeler blade is attached to the handle, which can be metal, wooden, or plastic, in pretty much the same way a knife blade is attached to the handle. When peeling the vegetable is usually held by grasping it with the fingers of the right hand with the thumb pressing on the top of the vegetable. The fingers of the right hand are then used to pull the blade over the vegetable skin, turning it over in the direction of the right thumb.

The second potato peeler variety is designed like a razor blade. This is the kind that usually looks like a slingshot or a Y , and is also called the yoke peeler or speed peeler. The blade is perpindicular to the handle and the skin is peeled in strips parallel to the handle. Most rex peelers have an eye gauge attached, used for removing the eyes from potatoes.

An important thing to remember when using a speed peeler is that the handle should not face away from the user, since this awkward position might cause the holder to slip. When using a speed peeler do not use a pushing force but use a drawing motion drawn such that the blade follows after the handle.

The third variety was designed in Australia, and is used extensively there, although it does not have an official name. Designed in 1947, it was created by the Dalsonware company in Melbourne. The blade was named the Dalson Aussie Peeler. It has a handle that projects upward and supports the base and tip of a blade that rotates to peel.

If manual peeling is done, the blade should be kept stationary, and the vegetable rotated against the blade to peel.

In all cases that the most important thing to keep in mind when using a potato peeler is that the blade must not be too close to the fingers, to keep your skin from being peeled along with the potatoes’.

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Trendy Automatic Potato Peeler

Now is the time we get our money’s worth with potatoes. With an automatic potato peeler, gone are the days when we’d buy 5 lbs. of potatoes only to be left with 3 lbs. after peeling them—two pounds all down the drain.

Automatic potato peelers are the latest in vegetable peeling technology. We don’t have to even hold the potato and peel it manually. Just set up the root crop, press a button and the gadget sets to work immediately, doing an excellent job at it like we’ve never seen before. An automatic potato peeler runs on electricity for kitchen use or 2 to 4 pieces of AA batteries if we take them outdoors.

There are plenty of brands and models to choose from. This vegetable or fruit peeling innovation is a wonderful kitchen assistant that takes loads off time preparation in peeling or skinning manually. Automatic potato peelers are so easy to use our kids can even help us with the preparation—all they have to do is prop up the potato and push the button. The automatic potato peeler peels off the skin perfectly without including so much of the fruit or vegetable flesh to waste.

The gadget works in mere seconds, peeling smoothly and neatly. Unlike traditional hand peeling that takes the skin off piece by piece and creates a mess hard to clean up, an automatic potato peeler does a one-stroke peeling process that keeps the skin peeled as one continuous spiral of very thin fruit or vegetable skin.

The best part is that nutrition from the fruit or vegetable near the skin is kept intact, and this is also due to the fact that no thorough washing is needed. Hand peeling an apple or kiwi fruit gets all the mess on the hands and thus on the fruit. So we need to wash them thoroughly afterwards. Not so with the automatic potato peeler.

Just wash the fruit or vegetable and gently sit it on the pointed holders at the bottom and lower the upper holder on the fruit or vegetable top. Make sure the fruit or veggie is centered on the holders. Adjust the cutting arm on the food and push the “on” button. The gadget will rotate the food as the ultra sharp cutting arm smoothly peels off the skin as it moves from top to bottom following the curvature of the fruit or veggie.

Automatic potato peelers are trendy kitchen allies to simplify food peeling process.

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