Here's how to peel your carrots

Carrots are available in supermarkets all year round. In your own garden they are usually ripe in the summer months. Very fresh, tender carrots do not have to be peeled. Your skin is very thin and is consumed with it. Older carrots, such as lager carrots, which are kept in a pile over the winter, have a firm and often dry skin that can also taste slightly bitter. Here, the peel should be removed before consumption.

Tips and tricks for properly peeling carrots

When peeling carrots, make sure that the skin is removed in as thin a layer as possible. As with apples and pears, most of the vitamins are under the skin. A vegetable or vegetable peeler is therefore a suitable tool.

1. When buying carrots, make sure that the goods are fresh or, in the case of stored carrots, that there are no rotten spots on the vegetables.
2. Wash the carrots under running water. Heavy encrustations of dirt can be removed with a vegetable brush.
3. Now hold the carrot between your thumb and forefinger in one hand and take the vegetable peeler or paring knife in the other.
4. Pull the peeler in sloping Angle from the thick end of the carrot to the tip. Using a knife, try the same way to cut off a thin layer of skin from the carrot.
5. If the peeler has two blades, it can also be peeled in the opposite direction, so always down and then up again.
6. Turn the carrot and cut off a strip of the peel again. Repeat the process until the beet is peeled.
7. Now cut off the stem end with a knife. The carrot can now be consumed or processed further.

Special peeling methods

If you don't have a peeler, you can also use a serrated knife or a fresh metal wire scraper.
If you want to use a serrated knife, take the carrot again between your thumb and forefinger. Using the knife, scrape the skin of the carrot from top to bottom. With a little practice, “scraping carrots” is easy to do. You can remove the skin from the beets just as quickly with the pot scraper. Hold the carrot firmly in your hand and scrape the skin off with the metal scraper.
Both of these methods are good for peeling fresh carrots as they scrape very little from the skin. Most of the vitamins are therefore retained.