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submitted 10 months ago by freebee to c/[email protected]

Like, I get comments from people telling me it's weird I always try to peel potatoes like I am trying to make the worlds longest 1-piece potato peel. To me it feels way for efficient and fun to continu down a potato in 1 peel, while circling around it, instead of randomly scraping a hundred different pieces of peel off and having to reintroduce the cutter knife to the potato for every piece.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

It depends on what exactly you're looking for in "efficiency'.

When most people peel potatoes they're looking for a time efficiency.

In the one strip method there's a lot of turning the potato going on. And a lot of careful precision. If you've been doing the one strip for enough time you might be close to the million strokes peeling being time effective but for most people...

To be honest I don't really peel potatoes anymore The only dish I would peel them for would be scalloped.

[-] freebee 3 points 10 months ago

to me what consumes time in the many scrapes method is the skin of the previous peeling stroke sort of being stuck in the peeler. Before continuing, needing to free the peeler again. I avoid it in the 1 long peel approach.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

100% I've also find myself not really peeling potatoes much any more. I guess optimising for time and nutrition lol

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