Since ancient times, potatoes have been known as the second bread in Russia. Almost no dish is complete without it. There are many ways to peel potato tubers. You can choose the most comfortable and fastest one from them.
It is necessary
Potatoes, knife, special device for cleaning vegetables, water
Instructions
Step 1
Soak potatoes for 10-15 minutes before peeling them so that the dirt is soaked and can be easily washed off. Now, using a sharp knife, remove the top layer of the tuber and the skin. Aerobatics - learning to peel off no more than 2 mm of the top layer. If you are in a hurry, there is a good chance of pruning a lot more. Then some of the potatoes will simply go into the trash can. Choose a short knife for cleaning: its blade is equal to the length of the handle. When peeling potatoes, it is also convenient to use a vegetable peeler. It is a special blade with a hole. The edges of the peeler are sharpened inward.
Step 2
While peeling, hold the potatoes in your left hand and peel the skin with a knife blade with your right hand. Grasp the potatoes so that there is as much free surface as possible. This makes it possible to avoid cuts, because the knife is very sharp. Support the cutting tool with four fingers and place your thumb on the potatoes. This way, you can easily move and rotate the tuber in any direction. When cleaning, the knife moves towards the thumb.
Step 3
Choose the trajectory of movement during cleaning at random. Someone turns out to peel off the peel faster, moving in a spiral. And someone very quickly peels potatoes with vertical stripes. If you fundamentally do not wash the potatoes before peeling, then be sure to wash the tubers with a cloth or sponge. Please note that with this method, there may be a little more dirt on the potatoes. So rinse it in cold water again before cooking.
Step 4
Young potatoes should be peeled in a special way. Take a very sharp knife and do not peel off the skin, but scrape it off. The skin of young potatoes is very delicate, so it comes off very easily. This time, point the knife away from the thumb, rather than the thumb, since the risk of cutting is much greater when scraping. And be careful, because it is in the young skin that there are substances that cause sore throat, sneezing, itching. Peel the young potatoes in a well-ventilated area so that the harmful substances evaporate immediately.
Step 5
A very old way to peel young potatoes: put the washed tubers in a plastic bag, add salt and rub well. In the process of interacting with salt, the skin will come off. Use only coarse salt whenever possible. Its amount depends on how many tubers need to be peeled.
