slo’s MONDAY 2/5 poll - Potato Peeler vs Paring Knife 🥔

[TiggerTrigger]

I prefer a peeler. Around Christmas, I had considered buying an apple corer that peels at the same time. I've seen people use them for potatoes, but all of the ones I found spiralize everything as well...which I didn't want. I sometimes couldn't be bothered and just opt for a more rustic style mashed potatoes with the skins included. Depending on the dish, I may also use the mandoline. While the skins stay on with it, it can slice thinly enough that it doesn't really matter.

 

[mumto3girls]

Oxo peeler!

 

[LoveDaisy]

I using a paring knife for potatoes and a peeler for carrots or to make thin pieces of Parmesan cheese

 

[mamamary]

Always a potato peeler.

 

[jo-jo]

Vegetable peeler, but they are not all created equal. I think I have three but I will wash “the good one” before I use either of the others. I don’t even know why I keep the other two!

Keep them just in case someone else offers to help peel. Yeah, that never happens at my house either.


But back to the poll, I had a peeler so old, it had it's price stamped into the handle. I had it forever and loved it. Even when it broke , I held it together with a rubberband. But alas sometime you can't go back. I got one from cutco. Cost a fortune , but works well.

But DH likes a paring knife. I know it's hard to believe, but we try to ignore that issue in order to keep the marriage intact.

 

[lovesmurfs]

I've started buying yellow gold and red potatoes you can keep the skin on. For sweet potatoes, I use a potato peeler.

Somehow we LOST our peeler over the holidays -- I'm thinking I must've wrapped up the peeler with the peelings. Just bought a SET of peelers from Amazon -- there's three different ones, plus a pick that looks like it's for maybe fruit seeds. Now I just need to figure out what peeler to use on what stuff!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B095MZF32M?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1

 

[disneydreamer1980]

Knife. I find it’s much faster

 

[hertamaniac]

I don't peel potatoes. Hence, I don't make mashed potatoes or skin-off potato salad.

 

[1420Elexismc]

I'd be terrified to use a regular knife over a peeler

 

[ronandannette]

Paring knife , my mom used that and that’s what I do and find it easier.

I do have one but use it to peel my carrots.

This, all the way. If we’re just talking about potatoes, it’s always a paring knife - I have a specific one just for that. But my peeler is vital for many other vegetables. It’s lost in the fray of my kitchen reno right now. I tried to peel an English cucumber with a knife the other day and just gave up and ate it with the skin on.

 

[CGB]

I grew up with a paring knife, so that's just my go-to for just about everything. I do have a peeler, but I use it for carrots mainly. I only pull out my fancy apple peeler/corer when I'm canning lots of apples.

 

[disney4us2002]

I have bad knife skills and have cut myself too many times over the years. I only use a peeler but I seldom peel a potato anyway as we like the skins. For those that use a peeler, do you peel toward you or away from you? I've always peeled away from myself but I remember my FIL peeling toward himself.

 

[georgina]

Peeler here. I can't imagine trying to peel a hard irregular shaped potato with a knife! I grew up with an Irish mother and peeled a LOT of potatoes in my life.

I peel towards me. I am quite fast peeling potatoes, apples, carrots...

 

[Meriweather]

I have bad knife skills and have cut myself too many times over the years. I only use a peeler but I seldom peel a potato anyway as we like the skins. For those that use a peeler, do you peel toward you or away from you? I've always peeled away from myself but I remember my FIL peeling toward himself.

Away from me, into the sink

 

[jimmalru80]

Neither. I don't peel potatoes.

 

[loves to dive]

Potato peeler here. If I used a knife I would have no fingers left.

 

[NAB]

Potato peeler here. If I used a knife I would have no fingers left.

Potatoes are nothing with a knife for me, my mom used to slice tomatoes in her hand now that scares me…lol She made it look easy too.

 

[Micca]

Peeler. We have several so when prepping a big 'ol batch of mashed potatoes for a holiday, others can help peel.

 

[PollyannaMom]

I almost never peel them, as I liked baked better than mashed.

 

[amcnj]

I guess I use it more for carrots, but find a good peeler is faster and easier for me. Once in a while potatoes or zucchini need to be peeled for a recipe too.