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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.
I don't normally peel my potatoes, but when I do, I use the peeler like I'm whittling a piece of wood.
But peeling oranges...I do the same thing you try to do with potatoes: I try to get the peel off in one single long spiraling piece.
I'm in your camp on all 3 points
I kinda don't see the point of peeling that kind of potato. I get them entirely because of the thin skin and would just the bigger thicker skinned ones if I minded the skin.
I've sometimes just scrubbed off the skin with some steel wool like stuff though.
You can heat them, then rapidly cool them in cold water and the Peel will slip right off.
Might not be the most energy efficient way.
The Willi Waller 2006.
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Donβt. That is a thin skinned potato.
Pic isn't mine. First search engine result of a potato with my favorite kind of peeler. I buy the same thin skinned potatoes tho :)
Boil them with the skin on and use the back of a small knife to easily remove the skin after. This is how we'd make mashed potatoes where I once worked.
If you can understand the accent, this is the best way to peel potato's,
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I rest one side of the potato on a cutting board and then work my way around it with a peeler (from top to bottom). Afterwards I do the edges separately. Takes about 15-20 seconds per potato.
If efficiency is the goal, spiral is good. If speed is the goal, rapid cuts are best. If both speed and efficiency are the goal, go mechanized.
If I need to peel a potato, I go around the flat sides in a single motion and then 3 or 4 peels on each flat side to take the rest off. Mostly just keep the skin on.
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