Author: Karen Lennox
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Last Updated:
August 08, 2022
Carrots are a healthy vegetable, but peeling them is often difficult. In this tip, we will tell you how to properly and quickly peel carrots at home.
Perhaps someone will find it funny the question of how carrots are peeled. But there are also such beginners in cooking for whom this process causes a number of negative emotions. Or maybe an experienced hostess, after reading some secrets and recommendations on this topic, will learn something new for herself.
How to properly peel carrotsTraditionally, for many years, the peel from the carrot was "scraped off", in the truest sense of the word. Many people still use this method exclusively, referring to the fact that the lion's share of vitamins falls on the peel area, so it cannot be cut off. Such a belief, of course, is not without meaning, but, alas, it will not work to quickly peel carrots.
How to quickly peel carrotsYou can quickly peel carrots not only with a special vegetable peeler, although this method can also be called fast. But the least time will take peeling carrots if you use a vegetable peeler. This device allows you to cut very thin peel.
In order to clean young carrots, which have practically no peel, you can use a stiff brush. Regardless of how you peel carrots, you need to do it from the thickest part to the narrowest.
Recipes with carrots
Step 1
For work, we need carrots, a knife, a cutting board, a colander, a metal brush-scraper for dishes.
Step 2
Wash carrots well before peeling. Young carrots can not be peeled at all. It is enough to wash it well with a sponge and the delicate skin will be washed off with water.
Step 3
A stale carrot is a little more difficult to peel, as the skin becomes rougher over time. You can take an ordinary small knife and scrape off a thin layer of skin, going from bottom to top, after cutting off the top of the carrot (the place where the stems are attached). You can also use a special housekeeper knife for peeling potatoes to peel stale or sluggish carrots.
Step 4
The most convenient option is to use a clean metal scraper for cleaning, which is used to clean dishes. Just walk the sponge over the root crop from all sides. In a few seconds, the carrots will be perfectly and evenly peeled and ready for further processing.
Step 5
Rinse the peeled carrots again under running water and they are ready to go.