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What's the most efficient way for peeling potatoes by hand?
(sh.itjust.works)
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.
true, it impacts the technical options. When my last one broke, I looked for quite a long time to find exactly one like in my picture again. The head needs to jiggle about to follow the shape of the potato while peeling. Static peelers feel very weird to me.
The one in the photo jiggles too.
I have a few of these in my drawer, I only use this style as the Y-type are awful IMO. I like the whittling motion and not the scraping motion, it feels natural. All other styles are a gimmick.
I just took a look. All have floating blades and my current favourite is probably the "Kuraidori" from Home Hardware. Lots of blade, not much guard, solid stiff single piece handle and thick blade. Blade is marked "Solingen Duo-Cut Germany".
I farm, grow a lot of potatoes in my garden and they are a staple of my family's diet. I just go ham on the potato with that style of peeler, must be only a couple seconds per potato. I definitely overcut sometimes but as potatoes are nearly worthless to me compared to the peeling time, NBD.
Another hot potato tip, I always pressure cook them if not baking or roasting. It turns out reliable results super fast and uses very little water.