peeler
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1. peeler - Noun
2. Peeler - Proper noun
Meaning
One who peels or strips.
A pillager.
A nickname for a policeman; -- so called from Sir Robert Peel.
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she invented a potato peeler
But spotting her vegetable peeler in a kitchen drawer, she had an idea to use it to take the paint off.
A lot less bother than artichokes (which I also love), the main thing to remember to do when preparing them is to trim the ends and either to boil them for 45 minutes or use a vegetable peeler to remove the stringy fibers that make them tough to eat.
The angled blade took a bit of getting used to for some testers though this peeler was a revelation to one, who happened to be left-handed.
Removing the rind of a pumpkin can be tricky, so I recommend cutting the pumpkin in half length-wise, slicing the pumpkin, and then using a potato peeler to remove the hard outer rind from each slice.
Instead of peeling in one direction, he slightly rotates the vegetable and peels back up using the double blade on the vegetable peeler.